• Former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who passed away last week, was laid to rest earlier today.
• Authorities and BP are investigating a report of a small oil leak in Hammond, Indiana.
• Benjamin Johnson, already serving 80 years for rape, was sentenced to an additional 30 years for another rape.

We tend to be somewhat skeptical of university rankings just because there are so many out there, but if there's one thing we notice, it's that the University of Chicago seems to rank high in pretty much all of them. And it's no different with the rankings released by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds). The home to a bevy of Nobel Prize winners, including the recently awarded Yoichiro Nambu, has been ranked as the eighth best university IN THE WORLD! (emphasis ours). Suck on that, MIT. more ›