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GASTONIA, N.C. (Sports Network) - Ted Abernathy, who twice led the National League in saves during the 1960s, has passed away at the age 71. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK - Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it had created a $500 million legal reserve to deal with ongoing federal probes of its America Online division. | 2Business |
Virginia's ambitious football team must neutralize Miami's speed today at Scott Stadium to stake its own claim to a berth among college football's elite. | 1Sports |
Islamabad: As Pervez Musharraf completed five years of his rule, Pakistan today "successfully" testfired its "indigenously built" intermediate range ballistic missile 'Hatf-V' capable of carrying nuclear warheads with a strike range of 1500 km, that could | 0World |
Recent new fiction received by the Putnam Count | 3Sci/Tech |
Japanese Grand Prix was under threat from the Super Typhoon Ma-On. So much so that the qualifying had to be cancelled on Saturday. | 1Sports |
US private equity group Blackstone is buying the Hilton Hotels chain for $26bn (£13bn) in an all-cash deal. | 2Business |
AP - Martin Brodeur broke a tie with George Hainesworth for second place on the NHL's career shutout list, making 30 saves in the New Jersey Devils' 1-0 overtime victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night. | 1Sports |
Shayne Graham boots a 24-yard field goal with two seconds left to lift the Bengals over the Ravens, 27-26, completing a 17-point, fourth-quarter comeback on Sunday. | 1Sports |
How does a team like Australia go from 136 for no loss to 235 all out in the space of fewer than 40 overs? Anil Kumble's scything spell - 17. | 1Sports |
Shares of Sonic Automotive Inc. (SAH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Asbury Automotive Group Inc. (ABG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) fell sharply on Tuesday after both car dealership | 2Business |
AP - The Christmas-themed movie "Noel" most likely won't be coming to a theater near you — but if you miss it on cable, there's always the self-destructing DVD. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - A strikeout led to three runs for the Minnesota Twins, who got a homer from Torii Hunter and four hits from Rondell White in an 8-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday. | 1Sports |
The head of South Korea's governing party has resigned over disclosures that his father collaborated with the Japanese during their occupation more than half a century ago. | 0World |
By The Idaho Statesman, Boise Sep. 10--Knights of Columbus Council 12854 in Boise is looking for donations of used medical equipment and associated appliances that members will repair and recycle. Items include walkers, canes, wheelchairs, crutches, shower seats and hospital beds. | 3Sci/Tech |
A senior United Nations official says North Korea has given him a very positive message on resuming six-party talks on its nuclear ambitions. | 0World |
PRIME Minister John Howard hopes the Australian dollar does not keep on rising because it would make us less competitive. Mr Howard said although he wouldn't say Australia was heading for tough times, there | 0World |
AP - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig isn't about to guess whether Barry Bonds will cooperate with George Mitchell's steroids investigation. "I don't know that," Selig said Friday. "I'm going to see how the Mitchell investigation plays out." | 1Sports |
A Nasa spacecraft set for launch early next month will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System. | 0World |
Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman says he has been bothered by migraine headaches but does not believe they are related to the multiple concussions he had as a player with the Dallas Cowboys. | 1Sports |
Reuters - Private-equity firms have in recent
days been moving into prime position to buy orthopedics maker
Biomet Inc. , the Wall Street Journal reported on its
Web site on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. | 2Business |
Forward P.J. Tucker, the leading scorer and rebounder for No. 15 Texas, is academically ineligible and will miss the rest of the season. | 1Sports |
The magic number is three, by the way. | 2Business |
Reuters - U.S. homeowners began the foreclosure
process at a record pace in the first quarter of 2007, largely
due to a sharp rise in previously hot real estate markets such
as California and Florida. | 2Business |
On a day of shifting winds and swelling waves, the challenger from New Zealand took the lead in the America's Cup yesterday in a classic race in which it beat defending champion Alinghi and nearly lost a crew member overboard. | 1Sports |
More than 20% of Chinese toys and baby clothes are sub-standard, the country's consumer watchdog says. | 0World |
Sue Zeidler | 2Business |
Mills Corp., the Arlington-based retail developer, said yesterday it plans to buy half of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg and eight other malls around the country in a billion-dollar deal that gives it a new portfolio of shopping centers to redevelop in the years ahead. | 2Business |
Ralph Laurenâs New York-centric 40th anniversary collection was a vigorous display of imagination and wit. | 0World |
A conservation charity calls for thousands of volunteers to take part in a national survey of moles. | 3Sci/Tech |
Joe Johnson registered 11 points for the Suns, who posted a season-low 12 points in the third quarter...Tyson Chandler finished with 10 points and nine boards for the Bulls, who fell to 0-6 on the road this season...Casey Jacobsen and Leandro Barbosa | 1Sports |
SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) - Three days after being too scared to introduce himself to Tiger Woods, PGA Tour rookie Kevin Streelman will play with the world number one in the third round of the Buick Invitational. | 1Sports |
AP - Anna Acker-Macosko shot an 11-under 60 on Sunday at the Longs Drugs Challenge, one stroke off Annika Sorenstam's tour record. | 1Sports |
With two 54-yard field goals on his résumé, Piotr Czech is optimistic about his chances to make it from a small college on Staten Island to the N.F.L. | 1Sports |
More than 500,000 notebook power adapters sold by IBM are being recalled to offset the threat of melting plastic and even fire. IBM and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall, saying | 3Sci/Tech |
Not so much a phone, more a USB key?
Israeli manufacturer Modu Mobile has officially created the worldâs lightest handset, with recognition from Guinness World Records. Its eponymous handset also comes apart to allow complete customisation.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks rose by midday on Monday as a broad range of issues got a lift from a key survey that boosted optimism on Japan's economic outlook and raised expectations that growth figures will be revised up. | 2Business |
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. officials worried on Thursday an end to the rainy season could lead to fresh fighting in Sudan's Darfur region and urged governments to do more to help speed African Union troops to the troubled area. | 0World |
Scientists are again saying that they have evidence suggesting the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker is alive and well—this time in Florida's Panhandle. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - The number of U.S. workers filing
for first-time jobless benefits fell a smaller-than-expected
27,000 last week, a government report showed on Thursday. | 2Business |
WAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto vowed to fight for workers' rights on Wednesday as she took her campaign for January general elections to an industrial belt near the capital. | 0World |
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Germany was awarded the 2011 Women's World Cup on Tuesday, beating out Canada after winning soccer's last two world titles. | 1Sports |
Boston College arrived in the Orange Bowl looking to record its 10th win of the season and bronze its legacy as one of the school's elite teams. | 1Sports |
Reuters - Iran will never be prepared to
dismantle its nuclear program entirely but remains committed to
the non-proliferation treaty (NPT), its chief delegate to the
International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday. | 0World |
AP - Daniel Briere scored two goals and broke a third-period tie, and the Buffalo Sabres erased another two-goal deficit in a 7-4 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night. | 1Sports |
PARIS (Reuters) - French food group Danone is in exclusive talks to sell its biscuit and cereal snack unit for 5.3 billion euros ($7.2 billion) in cash to Kraft Foods Inc , the world's biggest cookie maker, they said on Tuesday. | 2Business |
In NEW YORK story headlined "UPDATE 4-Citigroup profit rises 12 percent, cautious on 2005," please read in paragraph 11 "Citigroup shares fell 51 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $47.50..." instead of "...to $37.50. | 2Business |
Ron Artest says he wanted time off from basketball to spend more time with his family and to heal his banged-up body, not to promote a new rap album, according to a broadcast report. | 1Sports |
The Jets' Doug Brien missed two field-goal attempts in the final minutes of regulation, either of which might have won the game. | 1Sports |
Seabirds who survive an oil spill can help track the spread of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the event. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Those who criticized the Atlanta Braves for cashing in on only one of five World Series appearances in the 1990s should at least give those teams credit for making it that far. The Braves of the 2000s can only dream of a World Series loss. | 1Sports |
AP - Sherron Collins scored 20 points and No. 2 Kansas rallied after another hot start by Texas' Kevin Durant to beat the 15th-ranked Longhorns 88-84 in overtime Sunday and claim their second straight Big 12 title. | 1Sports |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc. sharply cut the price
of its iPhone on Wednesday and rolled out an iPod with a touch
screen that can browse the Internet wirelessly, as well as
improvements to its iTunes Web store. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday faced with urgent business and looming uncertainty. | 0World |
It's not how a team starts, but how it finishes that matters. And after his team went down, 14-0, at halftime, BC High coach Ron St. George gave his players advice concerning beyond formations to will the Eagles to a 22-14 victory over host Bridgewater-Raynham yesterday. | 1Sports |
American Airlines slashed its fares to Miami yesterday by as much as 85 percent from several cities including Washington's Reagan National Airport, possibly setting off a winter fare war on routes to Florida. | 2Business |
NFL playoff races were in full swing but the talk of the league Sunday was the death of the legendary Reggie White. Here are what others are saying about White, who is a lock to be voted into the Pro Football | 1Sports |
In typical Major League fashion, baseball executives wait until the hue and cry from the public reaches deafening levels before they act, this time on steroids. | 1Sports |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: The most important aspect of investment planning is asset allocation, or deciding how much of your portfolio to invest in stocks and how much in bonds. | 2Business |
Where users are frustrated with sluggish performance and primitive graphics, the chipmaker sees reasons customers will buy new PCs and servers. | 3Sci/Tech |
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between Sudan's former north-south foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a senior former rebel officer said on Thursday. | 0World |
AP - Fearful that growing pressure for development could cause the loss of vital plants and animals, biologists and conservationists are trying to rally new interest in protecting tropical forests and the keys they may hold for vital medicines. | 3Sci/Tech |
Ziff Davis - Sun's open-source license proposal for Open Solaris will surely be unpopular. | 3Sci/Tech |
With Republican support for the Iraq war cracking, Democratic leaders in the Senate are seeking to attract GOP support to force President Bush to begin withdrawing combat troops. | 0World |
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed 13 Palestinian militants in air strikes in the Gaza Strip, its most deadly military response in months to frequent rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled territory. | 0World |
A Silicon Valley startup founded by a couple of industry veterans is scheduled to make its official debut this week, unveiling a network appliance that the company claims adds computing power to the network without making major changes. | 2Business |
Britain's top law enforcement officer, a key member of Tony Blair's Cabinet, resigned Wednesday after acknowledging that his department fast-tracked a visa for his former lover's nanny. | 0World |
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp. on Thursday raised its long-term expansion goal to 40,000 stores from 30,000 and said it was nowhere close to exhausting opportunities in North America, even as possibilities appear internationally. | 2Business |
Reuters - Best Buy Co Inc. Chief
Executive Brad Anderson said on Tuesday that the electronics
retailer plans to expand into Mexico in 2008. | 2Business |
By Evening Standard, London Feb. 8--Two YouTube founders scooped shares worth a total of $650 million (£330 million) following Google's acquisition of the video-sharing site for $1.65 billion late last year. | 3Sci/Tech |
LOS ANGELES -- Karl Malone, the second-leading scorer in NBA history, has informed the Los Angeles Lakers he won't play this season. | 1Sports |
Reuters - Afghan officials delayed counting ballots
in a historic presidential election on Monday to deal with
complaints of fraud, but several of the candidates appeared to
be pulling back from an initial decision to boycott the vote. | 0World |
Darrell Green and Art Monk, former teammates on the Washington Redskins, headlined a class of six players selected Saturday for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. | 0World |
TIBU, Colombia -- The commander of Colombia's paramilitary forces wept and apologized yesterday for his role in a war against Marxist rebels as 1,400 fighters surrendered their weapons in the largest demobilization of an outlawed armed faction in the country's history. | 0World |
I.B.M. is planning to close its employee pension plan to new employees at the end of the year and give all new workers a 401(k) plan instead. | 2Business |
Business Objects has started to roll out a full suite of business intelligence (BI) software in the form of an online service, initially for customers using Salesforce.com applications. | 2Business |
Bonds aren't compelling investments in today's market. Dividend fan Mathew Emmert tells you why. | 2Business |
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese troops pounded suspected positions of al Qaeda-inspired militants to dislodge them from their hideouts at a Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday but the group vowed it would not surrender. | 0World |
Mark Martin, who with 533 consecutive starts trails only two active drivers, is proud to say he is not just sticking around to pick up lucrative checks with lackluster performances. | 1Sports |
Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs yesterday, adding yet another tentacle to its multipronged encroachment of Microsoft Corp.'s turf. | 2Business |
The Mars rovers emerged from a communications blackout period and the low point of winter today with new funding and big plans for the journey ahead. | 3Sci/Tech |
Blog: Internet statistics firm says social-networking site experienced 89 percent growth in traffic, mostly outside "collegiate" demographic, when it dropped its exclusivity. | 3Sci/Tech |
Bronx, NY (Sports Network) - Contrary to previous reports, Mel Stottlemyre will return to the New York Yankees as their pitching coach for the 2005 season. | 1Sports |
Sharon Patrick is out as CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She's being replaced by Susan Lyne (LYN), the former ABC entertainment president who helped to put the smash hit "Desperate Housewives" on the air. | 2Business |
A re-elected Howard government would establish a "spy school" in Australia to help train counter-terror intelligence officers from around the region. | 0World |
New York, NY (Sports Network) - The Associated Press announced Tuesday that it will remove its poll from being used by the Bowl Championship Series. | 1Sports |
Virgin Electronics unveiled on Tuesday a digital audio player with a 5GB hard disk, in a bid to penetrate the market dominated by Apple Computer's iPod. | 3Sci/Tech |
MacCentral - Apple hardware and software are proving their worth as the Sundance Channel kicks off the Sundance Channel Festival Dailies on Monday night. The "Dailies" are half-hour television segments produced by the Sundance Channel that give viewers an inside look into the Sundance film festival -- all of the film c... | 3Sci/Tech |
TAIPEI (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest bank, said on Wednesday it will open an insurance business in Taiwan as it aims to tap into the fourth-biggest insurance market in Asia. | 2Business |
Reuters - A consortium led by Australia's
Macquarie Bank is still considering a counterbid for Associated
British Ports after losing an auction for the UK ports group,
sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. | 2Business |
BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, and dozens of hostages fled the building, some bloodied and screaming. Exchanges of gunfire rang out and a large plume of smoke rose over the school as troops clashed with the militants... | 0World |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and TV studios on Thursday in a move likely to renew momentum for settling a 10-week-old writers strike that has crippled the industry and clouded the year-end Oscar season. | 2Business |
AP - An Iraqi insurgent group accused Iraqis who help the U.S. military of being criminals and bandits, referring to Sunni tribes fighting al-Qaida in the western Anbar province, according to a new video posted Wednesday. | 0World |
AP - Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who has pancreatic cancer, was in "very serious" condition after his health deteriorated, the Italian news agency AGI reported Wednesday. | 0World |
Reuters - Core inflation has come down but it
was necessary to remain vigilant about inflation, Chicago
Federal Reserve Bank President Michael Moskow said on Monday. | 2Business |
Get those photos cleaned up...
Facebook users may no longer be able to hide after the website announced it is launching a service that enables anyone to view member profiles.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Aid agencies struggled on Tuesday to cope with the enormity of the Asian tsunami disaster which has killed more than 28,000, with the International Red Cross saying it may have to treble its appeal for funds. | 0World |
AP - A Saudi cleric funneled money to an Egyptian described as one of the masterminds of the Madrid train bombings in March, Spanish and Italian newspapers reported Thursday. | 0World |
Kofi Annan built a reputation as the world's most trusted diplomat, but the oil-for-food scandal has riled US critics. Is his job in jeopardy? | 0World |
Reuters - Merrill Lynch & Co warned on
Friday that shaky credit markets forced the world's largest
brokerage to adjust the value of securities linked to risky
subprime mortgages and other products, in a move that could
hurt third-quarter profit. | 2Business |
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