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The article presents news briefs related to crimes and sentences in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Zachary Gibian was sentenced 25 years in prison by the New York Supreme Court for killing his stepfather. John Merla, the former mayor of Keyport, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court for accepting bribes during his tenure. The body of missing New York City college student Joseph Zahornacky was found in a lake in Connecticut.

Presents news briefs concerning New York and Connecticut, as of June 10, 2003.

Presents news briefs in the United States as of October 27, 2000. Signing of a policy which prohibits driving with a hand-held cellular phone in Hauppauge County, New York; Investigation on the death of Luis Rodriguez at the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey; Amount to be spent by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut for the construction and renovation of its buildings.

Reports on the effort of college students from Quinnipiac College Poll in Hamden, Connecticut and from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York to conduct public opinion surveys. Why the students are conducting polls; Comments from Jeffrey B. Plaut, a principal at Global Strategy Group; Remarks from Robert Y. Shapiro, a political science professor at Columbia University specializing in public opinion.