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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:46pm
Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were trapped underwater Sunday in their capsized tugboat after it collided with a cargo ship in Hong Kong waters, a marine official said.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:42pm
This grand slam meant far less to J.D. Drew than his last one.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:12pm
Christian pilgrims, undeterred by the recent violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, sang and prayed on Easter Sunday at the church believed to be built on the site where Jesus rose from the dead.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 3:41pm
Report on how tissue re-growth could make invasive surgeries a thing of the past.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 3:17pm
Sophie Edington lowered a day-old world record in the women's 50-meter backstroke Sunday at the Australian swimming championships and Olympic trials.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 3:06pm
Iranian artillery shelled three border towns Sunday in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish rebels are believed to be operating, an Iraqi Kurdish official said.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 1:44pm
With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin Skinner learned while researching his book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 1:11pm
Embattled President Pervez Musharraf hailed the start of a "new era of real democracy" in Pakistan and vowed Sunday to support an incoming government led by foes bent on diminishing his powers.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 1:01pm
Barack Obama refers to the past couple of weeks as a tough, turbulent stretch. And why not?
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 9:37am
A 114-year-old woman, considered the oldest person in Texas, has died at a Dallas retirement home.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 8:41am
Police say a man's excuse for speeding through a small Connecticut town takes the cake — or, at least, the cookie.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 8:02am
A man hoping to cheer up an ailing relative at Wilcox Memorial Hospital hadn't considered one of the visitation rules: No horses allowed.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:49am
Vanderbilt's motto this season is "No Pressure." And that's exactly how it went in the NCAA tournament opener.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:43am
A small plane that crashed last week in South Florida, killing all four people aboard, apparently spun into the ground and might have been overloaded, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released Saturday.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:43am
A small plane that crashed last week in South Florida, killing all four people aboard, was apparently flying too low and might have been overloaded, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released Saturday.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:43am
Ohio State is going home early yet again — and this time, it wasn't even close.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:43am
Ohio State is going home early yet again — and this time, it wasn't even close.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:36am
Natasha Lacy already knows what it's like to play in the NCAA tournament. She made sure her UTEP teammates will get at least a second game in this March run.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:36am
Natasha Lacy already knows what it's like to play in the NCAA tournament. She made sure her UTEP teammates will get at least a second game in this March run.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:36am
Teemu Selanne scored twice to lift the Anaheim Ducks to a 2-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:26am
Sylvia Fowles scored 16 points and then called it a night as LSU made easy work of Jackson State, winning 66-32 in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:26am
Sylvia Fowles scored 16 points and then called it a night as LSU made easy work of Jackson State, winning 66-32 in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:23am
Public broadcaster NHK says one person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were injured by a man who went on a knifing spree at a shopping mall in eastern Japan.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:23am
One person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were hurt by a man who went on a knifing spree Sunday at a shopping mall in eastern Japan, police said.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:03am
A volley of rockets or mortars has been fired toward the U.S.-protected Green Zone in Iraq's capital.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 6:03am
Dark smoke rose from the U.S.-protected Green Zone early Sunday after it was targeted by a series of rockets or mortars, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 5:58am
A chauffeur and his cousin are being charged in the 2006 stabbing death of a millionaire developer accused of real estate fraud, police said Saturday.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 5:58am
A chauffeur and his cousin are being charged in the 2006 stabbing death of a millionaire developer accused of real estate fraud, police said Saturday.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 5:54am
Those UCLA Bruins keep finding more drama and ways to win in the closing seconds. Darren Collison scored the go-ahead basket on a one-handed layin with 9 1/2 seconds remaining, Josh Shipp blocked Donald Sloan's final drive and the West Region's No. 1 seed held on for a 53-49 victory over Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 5:54am
Those UCLA Bruins keep finding more drama and ways to win in the closing seconds. Darren Collison scored the go-ahead basket on a one-handed layin with 9 1/2 seconds remaining, Josh Shipp blocked Donald Sloan's final drive and the West Region's No. 1 seed held on for a 53-49 victory over Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 5:48am
President Rafael Correa on Saturday threatened to seek international condemnation against Colombia if DNA tests confirm that Colombia's military killed an Ecuadorean citizen during its raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador's jungle.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:37am
Chakhia Cole scored 22 points, including the game-winning jumper with 17.5 seconds left and West Virginia eked out a 61-60 win over New Mexico in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:37am
West Virginia couldn't take the partisan Pit crowd out of the game. The Mountaineers still managed to knock the hometown New Mexico Lobos out of the NCAA tournament.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:31am
Seventh-grader Morgan Brown thought her dream to compete in the national spelling was about to come true when she won her regional contest.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:30am
Jayne Appel worked herself into a nervous tizzy over having to defend a shorter, quicker player.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:30am
Joel Przybilla had a career-high 25 rebounds and 14 points, Brandon Roy scored 23 points and the Portland Trail Blazers sent the Los Angeles Clippers to their seventh straight loss with an 83-72 victory on Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:27am
Marissa Jaret Winokur didn't have to be swayed into being on "Dancing with the Stars."
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:22am
There's more to Oklahoma State than Andrea Riley. A lot more, as it turns out. Riley did her part with 26 points and five assists and three teammates made major contributions as Oklahoma State beat East Tennessee State 85-73 Saturday night in the opening round of the New Orleans Regional.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:16am
The Marist winning streak is intact thanks to Rachele Fitz and Julianne Viani. Fitz scored 23 points and Marist closed the game with a 32-2 run to beat DePaul 76-57 in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night. Marist will face LSU in the second round.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:00am
Sam Gagner scored twice and the Edmonton Oilers edged closer to Colorado in the race for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference with a 7-5 victory over the Avalanche on Saturday.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:00am
Sam Gagner scored twice and the Edmonton Oilers edged closer to Colorado in the race for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference with a 7-5 victory over the Avalanche on Saturday.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:00am
Amare Stoudemire scored 38 points, including a franchise-record 20-of-20 on free throws, and the Phoenix Suns won their seventh in a row by beating the Houston Rockets 122-113 on Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 4:00am
Jarome Iginla notched his seventh NHL hat trick, and the Calgary Flames beat the Minnesota Wild 5-4 in a key Northwest Division clash on Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 3:00am
Carlos Boozer had 26 points and 13 rebounds, Mehmet Okur added 24 points and 10 rebounds, and the Utah Jazz sent the Seattle SuperSonics to their 11th straight loss with a 115-101 victory on Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 2:57am
Nobody shuts down Notre Dame big man Luke Harangody, the Big East's Player of the Year. Washington State settled for slowing down the high-flying Fighting Irish.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 2:30am
Mo Williams scored 27 points and the Milwaukee Bucks snapped a six-game losing streak with a 108-98 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 2:09am
Eight games down and only one upset so far.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 2:00am
Ryan Gomes scored 26 points, reserve Rashad McCants had 24, and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the New York Knicks, another lottery-bound team, 114-93 on Saturday night.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 1:30am
Evgeni Malkin had two goals and an assist, and Ryan Malone scored twice for the Pittsburgh Penguins, who beat New Jersey 7-1 Saturday night and took a two-point lead over the Devils atop the Atlantic Division.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 1:00am
Pavel Datsyuk set up power-play goals by Nicklas Lidstrom and Henrik Zetterberg and then scored a short-handed tally to lead the Detroit Red Wings past the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 on Saturday night.