Bracketology plus: Eight teams competing in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament—Colorado State, Connecticut, Mississippi Valley State, New Mexico State, Norfolk State, St. Starting next season, teams must have a four-year APR of at least 930 to participate in the tournament. via chronicle.com. MORE >>

Thanks to a kindhearted man who found it, an able and willing wildlife rehabilitator named Linda Bowen who nursed it back to strength, a helpful pilot who got it to Florida, and a host of others, a White-tailed Tropicbird that was found on the ground and exhausted in Connecticut in the wake of Hurricane Irene will be released tomorrow. MORE >>

San Diego, Sacramento and select areas in Connecticut. The BMW ActiveE rolled onto the show floor at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. This member of the BMW electrified 1-Series will make its first North American appearance at New York Auto Show this spring. One thousand ActiveEs will be built for field testing in New York, Boston, L.A., MORE >>

As of Monday afternoon, 750,000 customers in Connecticut were without power, 483,000 in Massachusetts, 370,000 in New Jersey, 250,000 in New York and 226,000 in Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts declared states of emergency on the Saturday. Snowfall reached 32 inches in some towns in the Berkshire Mountains. MORE >>

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend™  was, in typical hyperbolic fashion, a lovely, rare male Painted Bunting in Connecticut of all places! Welcome to online retail heaven (or online retail hell if that’s the way you’re wired.) We hope everyone who celebrated the American observance of Thanksgiving enjoyed a delicious holiday. MORE >>