Bledsoe, top seed Kentucky breeze through East Tennessee State – CBS Sports
NEW ORLEANS — To call this one a yawner would be understating things. Kentucky’s blowout of E. Tennessee State in the first round of the NCAA tournament was so thorough that fans were sleeping in the stands — and not even the collective laughs of conscious spectators could awaken some of those

US, Russia clash over Iran plant – Boston Globe
MOSCOW US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly yesterday over the planned launch this summer of Iran s first nuclear power plant, highlighting a split in views over how to steer Iran away from nuclear weapons. Clinton did not directly criticize

Ohio Stuns Georgetown In Tournament Opener – WJLA
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Armon Bassett scored 32 points to help No. 14 seed Ohio beat Georgetown 97-83 and become the second team seeded in the teens to win in the NCAA tournament on Thursday night. The Mid-American Conference tournament champion Bobcats (22-14) took the lead early on their 3-point

Parker, TVs Davy Crockett, dies at 85 – Bennington Banner
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV s Daniel Boone and later a major California winemaker and

Pondexter’s drive lifts No. 11 seed Washington past No. 6 seed Marquette – Washington Post
SAN JOSE — Quincy Pondexter drove to the basket and sank a layup with 1.7 seconds left to lift No. 11 seed Washington to an 80-78 victory over sixth-seeded Marquette in an East Region first-round game at HP Pavilion on Thursday. The Huskies (25-9) advanced to play the New Mexico-Montana winner on

Azriel Carver’s body found on Fox Island – kgw.com
TACOMA, Wash. — Lt. Chris Mealy of the Thurston County Sheriff’s office says he got a call from Pierce County officials on Thursday afternoon to say they are responding to a report that a child washed up on the island southwest of Tacoma. Just after 5 p.m. sheriff’s deputies confirmed that the body

Bruins’ Thornton fights Cooke 1:58 in – ESPN.com
In the teams’ first meeting since Savard was hurt by a shoulder-to-head hit March 7 in Pittsburgh, Cooke and Boston’s Shawn Thornton dropped their gloves at 1:58 of the first period Thursday night, 5 seconds after Cooke took the ice for the first time to loud boos. “For me, I didn’t intend on

Netanyahu calls Clinton to defuse tensions – YAHOO!
MOSCOW Hoping to defuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet next week in Washington to confront an embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims . The Obama administration’s special envoy for

Greece warns it may turn to IMF if EU does not help – Irish Times
GREEK PREMIER George Papandreou upped the stakes in his game of brinkmanship with German chancellor Angela Merkel by saying he may turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if the upcoming EU summit does not deliver political agreement on a last-resort plan for Greece. His comments follow

Bruins’ Thornton fights Cooke 1:58 in – ESPN.com
In the teams’ first meeting since Savard was hurt by a shoulder-to-head hit March 7 in Pittsburgh, Cooke and Boston’s Shawn Thornton dropped their gloves at 1:58 of the first period Thursday night, 5 seconds after Cooke took the ice for the first time to loud boos. “For me, I didn’t intend on

Attorney: Jackson Kids Weren’t Exposed To Stun Gun – CBS 3 Philadelphia
Michael Jackson’s children were never exposed to a mail-order stun gun recently delivered to the family’s home, an attorney for the late singer’s mother said Tuesday. Child services workers are investigating the incident, but attorney Adam Streisand said the stun gun was confiscated before any harm

Canadiens score 4 in 3rd to beat Boston – WTOP Radio
BOSTON (AP) – Glen Metropolit tied the game early in the third period, and Maxim Lapierre scored the go-ahead goal for Montreal on Tuesday night as the Canadiens scored four times in the final period to beat the Boston Bruins 4-1. Mathieu Darche had a goal and an assist for Montreal, scoring to make

Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ leaving Hulu – Los Angeles Times Blogs
Hulu’s losing two of its biggest attractions. In a bid to better capitalize on the popularity of its shows, Comedy Central has decided to no longer provide episodes of “The Daily Show,” and “The Colbert Report” to the video website and keep them on the sites they own. Hulu said Tuesday

Police: Man brandishes gun at Kentucky State – Napa Valley Register
Police have arrested a man who they say pointed a gun at people in Kentucky State University’s student center. Police spokesman Maj. Fred Deaton says there were no injuries, and the suspect was arrested without incident in a computer lab at the school in Frankfort. Christopher Sims of Louisville was

Rangel denies he’s giving up tax writing chair – Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON Rep. Charles Rangel denied Tuesday that he’s stepping down as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee in the wake of an ethics report that admonished him for taking two corporate-paid trips. A Democratic source had said Rangel was likely to “temporarily” relinquish

North Korean soldier defects to South Korea – Billings Gazette
South Korea’s top spy agency says a North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea. The National Intelligence Service said Wednesday that the North Korean soldier was being questioned over the reasons for his defection. It declined to give his name, rank or the date he defected. The announcement

GM to recall 1.3M compacts for steering problem – News-Press
7:54 A.M. DETROIT General Motors Co. said Monday it will recall 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac compact cars sold in the U.S., Canada and Mexico to fix power steering motors that can fail. The recall affects 2005 to 2010 Chevrolet Cobalts, 2007 to 2010 Pontiac G5s, 2005 and 2006 Pontiac

Dedicated Server Company, DedicatedNOW, Announces 100% Uptime for 2009 – YAHOO!
And our cooling systems offer an accurate and reliable control of humidity, airflow, and room temperature that improves the working conditions for delicate electronic equipment. In the same facility of the Clifton, NJ datacenter, DedicatedNOW also

GetApp.com Launches Business Software Live Demos and Trials in the – YAHOO!
GetApp.com , a leading vertical portal for business software and SaaS applications, partners with CloudShare to launch the first cloud-based customizable online demos and trials. (PRWEB) February 17, 2010 — GetApp.com has partnered with Cloudshare

Mauritius Telecom deploys interactive mobile multimedia services with – TMCnet
the same software platform. Alcatel-Lucent offers a complete turnkey mobile multimedia package which provides Mauritius Telecom’s customers with a large range of customized services. In total, end users are able to access 20 technologies,

SpamTitan: SpamTitan Reports Record Growth in ISP Customer-base in – TMCnet
Feb 16, 2010 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — Boston, MA and Galway, Ireland — Virtualized security software appliances are playing a vital role in helping Internet Service Providers (ISPs) combat ever increasing levels of spam according to SpamTitan

Peer 1 unveils flagship data centre in Toronto – Network World Fusion
Vancouver-based infrastructure services provider Peer 1 is launching its flagship data centre in Toronto later this spring and will be the first of the company’s global facilities to offer co-location, managed hosting and dedicated hosting. ” Fabio

More IDG Headlines – San Francisco Chronicle
Else has built its Intuition interface on top of the Access Linux Platform from Access, the Japanese company that bought the Palm OS software division PalmSource and then ask the servers for other matches from the Web, mapping services or the

ZyXEL’s NWA-3166 Wireless Access Point – IDG NEWS
The box contains the power adapter, the AP unit, a 6-foot ethernet cable, a console cable for accessing the command-line interface configurator Toy Story 3 tie-in game offers open world mode Disney Interactive Studios announced a Toy Story 3 tie

Broadstripe Rolls Out 60-Day No-Hassle Money-Back Guarantee – TMCnet
The 60-day satisfaction guarantee offers both new and existing Broadstripe residential customers 60 days to test the cable provider’s providing our customers with the best overall value in in-home communications and entertainment.”

Climate changes are proven fact – Boston Globe
OUTSIDE SCIENTIFIC forums, contemporary discussions of the phenomenon of global warming are now so heated that one wonders whether they are contributing to the phenomenon itself. With all the interest in alleged misdeeds of the Intergovernmental

Guys revel in nature s big shovel-ready project – Kansas City Star
The simple answer is well known, but a more nuanced answer has presented itself the past several days during Snowmageddon. Shovels. Men want shovels, the bigger the better. No sooner had the first flakes begun falling in this crippling winter

Tech-age buried treasure – Boston Globe
SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia – On the edge of an evaporated sea, where the cracked white earth spreads for hundreds of miles over a desolate horizon, wood scaffolding surrounds the first buildings of a project that could transform South America s

Merida Bikes – who’s riding them? – BikeRadar.com
You do see loads of them – you just don’t don’t realise it! Merida are a huge company, perhaps the 2nd or 3rd largest manufacturer of bike frames on the planet. They act as vendors to may of the big names and produce their frames. They have a large

Stoudemire deal may seal a Cavaliers title, and LeBron’s return as – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Matt York / Associated Press With a supporting cast that includes Amar’e Stoudemire, Shaquille O’Neal, Mo Williams and Anderson Varejao along with a variety of role players, it would be hard for LeBron James to suggest the Cavaliers aren’t his best

Fusion-V 1.1a -The first SUPER ROBOT (an FRWC EA Lab product)! 355.46 – PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) Feb 14, 2010 When I saw this, my jaw hit the ground! I was speechless, I could hardly believe what I was looking at, it’s just so incredible – In one game-changing move they’ve altered the destiny of Forex trading. The

Toms River church celebrating Women’s History Month – Asbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER In recognition of March as National Women’s History Month, the Unitarian Universalist Ocean County Congregation is holding a series of special events to promote equality and honor women’s efforts. The events all will be held at 2 p.m

‘Avatar’ rock name was mined from science – Chicago Tribune
Near the beginning of director James Cameron’s “Avatar,” a greedy businessman itching to dig a mine on the planet Pandora utters a line that set some viewers to snicker. “This is why we’re here,” he explains. “Unobtainium. Because this little gray

Recchi’s shootout goal lifts Bruins over Panthers – Palm Beach Interactive
SUNRISE, Fla. Mark Recchi scored in the eighth round of the shootout to lift the Boston Bruins to their fourth win in a row with a 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night. David Krejci and Marc Savard also scored in the shootout for Boston when a save would have given the

At least 9 dead in blast at India bakery popular with tourists – Washington Post
NEW DELHI — A powerful blast at a popular bakery frequented by tourists killed at least nine people and injured 53 in the western Indian city of Pune on Saturday, the first attack to apparently target foreigners since the deadly 2008 siege of Mumbai. The explosion took place a little after 7 p.m

Whitney power plays lead Hurricanes past Devils, 5-2 – New York Post
RALEIGH, N.C. — Ray Whitney scored two power-play goals in a minute in the second period, rookie goalie Justin Peters won his second game in two outings and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 tonight. Jussi Jokinen also scored two goals, including an empty-netter, and Zach

Bill Clinton returns home after heart procedure – Star-Banner
CHAPPAQUA, New York Former President Bill Clinton was recovering at his suburban home Friday after leaving a Manhattan hospital where he underwent a heart procedure. Three black SUVs with tinted windows arrived around 7:45 a.m. (1245 GMT) Friday and pulled through the high gates at the house

Ford says will file his 1st NY resident tax return – KVUE
NEW YORK (AP) Former Tennessee congressman and undeclared U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. says he’ll file his first state tax return as a New Yorker this April. Ford is considering running in the Democratic primary for the Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand (KEHR’-sten JIL’-uh-brand

Suspect Involved in Fatal 1986 Shooting – The Ledger
More than two decades ago, police said Amy Bishop killed her teenage brother with a shotgun at their Massachusetts home in a shooting that investigators concluded was an accident. Bishop had just months left teaching at the University of Alabama in Huntsville when police said she opened fire with a

Briere completes hat trick on penalty shot as Flyers crush Canadiens – CBS Sports
MONTREAL — Daniel Briere had three goals, and Jeff Carter scored his third goal against Montreal in two nights, leading the Philadelphia Flyers to a 6-2 victory over the Canadiens on Saturday night. Briere opened the scoring 4:37 in and put the Flyers up 5-1 with 6 seconds left in the second with

To print this page, select “Print” from the File menu of your browser – Salon
If the Zhu Zhu Pets taught a lesson, it’s that a bit of technology and a low price tag can go a long way. Toy makers are taking that experience to heart. From a digital Scrabble game that checks the words to a hovering UFO to miniature radio-control cars, toy makers are amping up the tech quotient

Astronauts hit snag with new space station room – San Jose Mercury News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A pair of spacewalking astronauts floated back outside Saturday night to hook up plumbing on the newest room of the International Space Station and bring it alive with power. Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick had to route extra-long hoses that were fashioned right before

Kwan puts skating career on ice – Boston Globe
SOMERVILLE – She will be walking through Davis Square at lunchtime, having dinner in the North End, or sitting courtside at a Celtics game and she ll see the heads turning. That face, that smile. Is that her? Naww, couldn t be. She s from LA

PretonSaver(TM) Home Software Provides Twice as Many Pages Per Ink – TMCnet
Palo Alto, CA, Feb 02, 2010 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — www.halftheink.com (www.halftheink.com), a leading provider of economical and eco-saving ink and toner optimization solutions for the home and small office markets, today announced it has begun

Part 1: Crossing the desert of death – Minneapolis Star Tribune
HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN — Dusk was coming on fast as the 100-truck convoy rumbled to life for the trip into what local tribesmen long ago named the Desert of Death. The Minnesotans who made up the American half of the mission revved their

Join Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in a zombified America! Plus: Terrifying – Salon
One can argue that the reign of the American Empire stretched from the Japanese surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri in September 1945 to another September day in 2001: A 56-year bracket where a self-confident America insouciantly blundered

Abbott pencils in date with Monckton – Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott plans to meet high-profile controversial climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton, who will be visiting Canberra over the next few days. Mr Abbott’s planned meeting with the sceptic, who has been on a speaking

Star Trek Online hits Warp 10 – TG Daily
Engage! Atari and Cryptic Studios have successfully launched a “bold new” Star Trek MMO. According to Atari CEO Jeff Lapin, over one million fans have already created accounts at various official Star Trek Online websites. “Throughout the last four

Orange native narrowly misses Miss America crown – Orange County Register
It has been 27 years since a Miss California was crowned Miss America, but Kristy Cavinder came close Saturday night. Cavinder, the current Miss California, finished first runner-up for the crown, at the competition held the Theater for the

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Review – Gamespot News
The most stable S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game yet also happens to be the most atmospheric and compelling. The story takes too long to get interesting Pripyat isn’t as interesting as the surrounding wastes. Like its predecessors, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Sci-Fi Novels To Keep You Awake At Night – NPR News
I started out as an adolescent reader feasting on science fiction, and even as I studied modern literature and decades after that, began writing stories and novels of my own I have kept up my habit of turning to science fiction, as I do also

Update: Court officer, gunman killed in Las Vegas shootout – Argus Leader
LAS VEGAS A hospital official says a court officer has died after being wounded in a shooting at a Las Vegas federal building today. A second officer is in serious condition. The U.S. Marshals Service says the victims included a deputy U.S. marshal and a court security officer. It was not

Confusion in Europe After US Demands More Security – ABC News
TSA puts extra layers of security in place following Christmas bombing attempt. Airline passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of heightened security measures across Europe on Monday, but airports did not appear to be following a U.S. request for increased screening of passengers

Pfizer gets European OK for intravenous Revatio – Yahoo Finance
NEW YORK (AP) — Drug developer Pfizer Inc. said Monday European regulators approved an intravenous version of its high blood pressure drug Revatio. The drug was already sold in Europe as a tablet for a specific type of high blood pressure called pulmonary arterial hypertension, which affects

Redskins interview Shanahan on Monday after firing Zorn – CNN Sports Illustrated
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — The Washington Redskins moved quickly in their pursuit of Mike Shanahan on Monday, flying in the former Denver Broncos coach on the same day the team fired Jim Zorn. Shanahan landed at Dulles International Airport near Redskins Park in mid-afternoon and was driven away in a

Dubai opens half-mile-high tower, world’s tallest – Daily Finance
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper Monday in a blaze of fireworks, then added a final flourish: It renamed the half-mile-high tower for the head of neighboring Abu Dhabi, whose billions bailed out Dubai amid last year’s financial crisis. Long known as Burj Dubai

Sen. John Kerry undergoes 2nd hip replacement – Boston Globe
BOSTON Sen. John Kerry returned to Massachusetts General Hospital on Monday for a second hip replacement by the doctor who replaced his right hip in August. Kerry spokesman David Wade told The Associated Press that Dr. Dennis Burke achieved such good results the first time that Kerry decided to

Persons of the Year – Global Nation
THE 2009 TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR IS BEN SHALOM Bernanke, the 56-year-old chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. (Governor Amando Tetangco is his Philippine counterpart.) In a cover story written by Michael Grunwald

We ll drink to that – Boston Globe
It was a year of Hope — at first in the sense of I feel hopeful! and later in the sense of I hope this year ends soon! It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the

Out of catastrophe, renewal – Denver Post
Already 99.9 (and about 58 more 9s) percent of the universe it is expanding lickety-split is beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Into what is it expanding? Hard to say. We can say there is lots of stuff in space: Hold up a penny at arm’s length and

2009 s best nerdy-wordy websites – Boston Globe
MY FAVORITE time of year, the end of December, when the patron saint of writers has arranged for us to get a free pass: the end of year list article. Such an article practically writes itself, and editors feel like they ve gypped their

Mobile soup kitchens reach out to today’s impoverished – Chicago Tribune
Chicago has a long history of feeding the nation and feeding its hungry too. Now, in the aftermath of a brutal recession, with the unemployment rate in the double-digits, 2010 dawns at a time of acute need and limited resources. One old invention for

Republicans are also responsible – Bismarck Tribune
Yo Omnipotent Hooplehead Big Jerk: Kadizzie’s ‘facts’ are about as solid as thin ice. Yes, most countries with socialized medicine have lower costs but that is accounted for by the low pay for doctors and nurses. I’ve been to Mayo Clinic and saw the

Boom – Boom Riley – Bleacherreport.com
Boom – Boom Riley is one of the most compassionate Grizz fans on the planet. He listens (sometimes watches) pretty much every game of Memphis’ and never misses a beat. He intends on making himself known everywhere and decided to start here, on the

Terrible Arguments for Climate Change Legislation – Lewrockwell.com
“Terrible Arguments for Climate Change Legislation” is an impressive genre. I am aware of how hard it is to isolate one particular argument as the worst of all. But Michael Bloomberg, glorious Mayor of the NYC, really did all the work for me this

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copenhagen climate change speech – Examiner
Is it possible that we could be wrong about the President of Iran ?, how many times have you stopped and listened to him talk ? I did that today, listening to the live speech he gave at the United Nations Copenhagen summit on CSPAN. Honestly

IMGM, TDGI, GETG, ATNP, EXPH, ZVTK OTCPicks.com Stocks to Watch for – Transworld News
Visit http://www.otcpicks.com/hotpicks.htm today to sign up for our Free Daily Email Newsletter and News Alerts. Dallas TX 12/28/2009 03:18 AM GMT (TransWorldNews) Our Stocks to Watch tomorrow include IMAGIN Molecular Corp. (OTCBB: IMGM), Target

Latest Articles – Dissident Voice
Posted by Max Shields on 12/27/2009 at 7:50pm It is interesting to see the editor of the magazine co-founded by an Islamophobe Samuel Posted by Rehmat on 12/27/2009 at 7:38pm Max Shields get it wrong yet again You describe socialism as the

Avalanche Alert! – Denver Channel
A great spectacle in Colorado during the cold season is the Avalanche! Although our hockey team is terrific, the type of avalanche that I am referring to is found not at the Pepsi Center, but in our high country. Snowslides are very common and very

Answers Please – Post-Star
Is it due your paper’s ownership (or what) that you continue to urge the little (taxpayers) to quarrel w/ the other little (public employees) over what are, by reasonable comparison, small money numbers? Why not include data about income/wealth

Florida’s Meyer Takes Leave Of Absence – NPR News
Less than 24 hours after he resigned, Florida coach Urban Meyer is instead taking an indefinite leave of absence and expects to be on the sideline leading the Gators when next season opens. “I do in my gut believe that will happen,” he said Sunday at a Sugar Bowl news conference. Offensive

Patriots clinch AFC East title with 35-7 win over Jaguars – Boston Globe
FOXBOROUGH — On the sidelines, Tom Brady watched the final plays of the game that ultimately decided the Patriots’ postseason fate. He had watched them last year, too, but in a wholly different manner. Last year, he sat at home as he had all season and hoped some other team would bail out the

Man arrested in new disturbance on Detroit flight – USA Today
Northwest Airlines Flight 253 sits on the tarmac after requesting emergency help at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulas, Mich., Sunday. A passenger onboard the same Northwest Airlines flight path that was attacked on Christmas Day was taken into custody in Detroit on Sunday after becoming

Bengals edge Chiefs to claim AFC North title – The Province
Cincinnati, OH – Chad Ochocinco’s touchdown catch with 2:03 left in the fourth quarter was the difference, as the Cincinnati Bengals clinched the AFC North title with a 17-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Carson Palmer completed 17-of-25 passes for 139 yards, with two scores and an

House and Senate look to final health care talks – MSNBC
WASHINGTON – How many Americans will get subsidized medical coverage plus who will pay for it will be front-burner issues when Congress returns next month to complete President Barack Obama’s health care remake. Pocketbook concerns join abortion and whether Uncle Sam should peddle insurance

Search for answers, tighter security after attack – Boston Globe
DETROIT The U.S. government tightened airline security as it searches for answers to how a 23-year-old Nigerian man eluded extensive systems intended to prevent attacks like his botched Christmas Day effort to blow up a Northwest flight from overseas. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who claimed ties

US removes $400b cap on aid to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac – Boston Globe
NEW YORK – The Treasury Department has removed the $400 billion financial cap on how much money it will provide to the beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , a step taken to keep the companies from failing. So far, taxpayers have shelled out $111 billion to the pair. Yesterday

China Hands 11-Year Sentence to Dissident – CBS News
(AP) A Chinese court sentenced a prominent dissident to 11 years in jail Friday on subversion charges after he called for sweeping political reforms and an end to Communist Party dominance. The sentencing of Liu Xiaobo comes despite international appeals for his release, which China sternly rejected

Brittany Murphy buried in private Christmas Eve funeral in Hollywood Hills – MLive.com
The Associated Press Brittany Murphy, pictured here on Dec. 1, died at the age of 32. LOS ANGELES — Brittany Murphy’s family and friends celebrated her life at a private Christmas Eve funeral. The 32-year-old actress was buried Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. The intimate

New Jersey dad David Goldman heads to Disney World with son after escaping media jungle of Brazil – New York Daily News
David Goldman, top, boards a plane bound for the United States with his 9-year-old son, Sean, at the Galeao airport, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. Naddar/AP Sean Goldman arrives with his stepfather, Joao Paulo Lins e Silva, at the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro Thursday. Do you think David

Stocks end shortened session at new 2009 highs – Boston Globe
NEW YORK Stocks ended a holiday-shortened session Thursday at new highs for the year following upbeat reports on unemployment and durable goods orders. A weaker dollar also helped buoy the market, lifting energy and materials stocks. Christmas Eve trading was extremely light. The encouraging

Tug grounds on same reef as Exxon Valdez tanker – Boston Globe
ANCHORAGE, Alaska A tugboat put in service to help prevent another oil spill disaster in Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef as the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago in what remains the nation’s worst oil spill. The Coast Guard said Thursday that the 136-foot tug with six crew aboard had

Angels lock up reliever Rodney for two years, $11 million – CBS Sports
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Reliever Fernando Rodney has signed a two-year, $11 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels . The 32-year-old right-hander spent his first seven major league seasons with the Detroit Tigers, including the last two years as their closer. He converted 37 of 38 save opportunities

Officials probe American plane wreck in Jamaica – Houston Chronicle
KINGSTON, Jamaica Jamaican and U.S. authorities launched a probe Thursday examining whether the pilot of American Airlines Flight 331 could have avoided an accident that cracked open the plane and sent nearly 100 people to the hospital. One alternative could have been to abort the landing and

NORAD tracking Santa on his sleigh – Syracuse Post-Standard
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is reporting the progress of Santa Claus’s annual visit to good boys and girls around the world. As darkness descended on the East Coast of the United States Thrusday, NORAD’s Web site for the mission, www.noradsanta.org , was reporting much of Europe and

Senate OK’s health care bill in victory for Obama – Boston Globe
WASHINGTON In an epic struggle settled at dawn, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed health care legislation Thursday, a triumph for President Barack Obama that clears the way for compromise talks with the House on a bill to reduce the ranks of the uninsured and rein in the insurance industry

Pope OK after woman knocks him down at Mass – USA Today
Pope Benedict XVI holds a cross as he leads the Christmas Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday. VATICAN CITY (AP) A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday

Guitarist for Janis Joplin’s Big Brother band dies – KMOV
LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack. He was 69. Gurley was pronounced dead

Malkin’s hat trick leads Pens’ 8-2 rout of Sens – Omaha World-Herald
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Evgeni Malkin had his fourth career hat trick, Bill Guerin added two goals and two assists, and the Pittsburgh Penguins headed into the holiday break tied atop the league standings after routing the Ottawa Senators 8-2 Wednesday night. Guerin and Chris Kunitz tied a club record

NTSB obtains both flight recorders from Jamaica plane crash – Washington Post
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that it had taken possession of the flight data recorders from the American Airlines flight that overshot a runway in Kingston, Jamaica, Tuesday night, injuring dozens. Investigators had been working Wednesday to retrieve a second recorder, which

Father Will Not Be Attending Brittany Murphy’s Funeral – AceShowbiz
“If I wanted to go, I would go, but I don’t want to see her that way,” Angelo Bertolotti explains on why he won’t attend the actress’ funeral. Albert L. Ortega/PR Photos Angelo Bertolotti, father of late actress Brittany Murphy , says he won’t attend his daughter’s funeral, which has been planned

Teresa Heinz says she’s fighting breast cancer – Boston Globe
BOSTON Teresa Heinz says she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through mammography and argues that younger women should continue undergoing the tests despite a federal panel’s recent recommendation to reduce their frequency. The 71-year-old wife of the 2004 Democratic presidential

Microsoft loses $290M patent case over Word ‘07 – CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s $290 million patent infringement ruling against Microsoft that will prevent the world’s largest software maker from selling the current version of its popular Word program. The injunction goes into effect on Jan. 11

Fannie, Freddie execs’ salaries to be disclosed – Gainesville Sun
WASHINGTON Federal regulators plan to disclose Thursday that the top executives of government-controlled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each earned between $4 million and $6 million this year, two people briefed on the matter said. The people, who declined to be identified

Facing Deadline, Brazil Family to Give Up Boy, 9 – New York Times
A federal court in Brazil gave the Brazilian family of a 9-year-old boy at the center of a five-year international abduction and custody case a deadline of Thursday to turn the child over to his American father, and the lawyers for family members have indicated that they will comply, United States

NFL Notes: Favre, Childress mend fences – Omaha World-Herald
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. Brett Favre is brushing aside his conflict with Minnesota coach Brad Childress. Childress said he had a good talk with his quarterback on both Monday and Wednesday about their disagreement during Sunday’s loss to Carolina. Childress has said he suggested to Favre that

Daylong hostage standoff at Va. town’s post office – AOL
WYTHEVILLE, Va. -Negotiators were trying to coax an armed man to release hostages that had been held for hours Wednesday in a post office in a rural, mountain town in western Virginia. Shots were fired when the standoff began at about 2:30 p.m., but there were no reports of injuries, and relatives

White House: Obama helping climate talks from home – Forbes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is working this week from Washington to help advance U.N. climate change talks in Copenhagen ahead of his visit there Friday, the White House said Monday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said developing countries such as China and India would

Legionnaires’ hits 3 former guests of Miami hotel – Miami Herald
About 300 guests have been relocated from a luxury Miami hotel after one former guest died and at least two others became sick since October from Legionnaires’ disease. Health officials say the guests at the EPIC Hotel were sent to nearby hotels Saturday to prevent potential contact with the

Courtney Love Loses Legal Guardianship of Daughter – Celebrity Justice
Courtney Love lost legal guardianship of her 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean Cobain last Friday. A judge appointed Kurt Cobain’s mother and sister, Wendy O’Connor and Kimberly Dawn Cobain, as her legal guardians, TMZ reports. “This doesn’t necessarily mean that Courtney Love is an unfit mother and

Sully sells hat for $5,800 to help 3 schools – New York Post
SAN RAMON, Calif. Capt. Chesley Sully Sullenberger has auctioned one of his pilot s caps for $5,800 and will donate the proceeds to three San Francisco Bay area public schools. The signed hat which was not worn the day Sullenberger safely landed a disabled jet into the Hudson River

Tick-tock: Waiting for Nelson on health care – Columbia Missourian
Sixty seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and it takes 60 senators to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Sen. Ben Nelson, who has collected hundreds of clocks, is the Democrat making everybody wait for the answer to the burning Washington question: Will he be the last vote that Senate

Airline blames Buffalo crash on pilot error – WFAA
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) A pilot’s inattention and failure to follow safety rules likely caused a commuter plane to plummet from the sky near Buffalo in February, killing 50 people, the airline told federal investigators. The twin-engine turboprop also lacked an adequate system to warn the pilots

22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found – AOL
WASHINGTON -Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over

Yankees and Red Sox to meet in opener – Boston Globe
NEW YORK The World Series champion New York Yankees will play the Boston Red Sox in the major league Sunday night opener on April 4. The game will be televised on ESPN2 nationally but will be blacked out in the areas of the two teams, where it will be broadcast on their local networks. The game

911 caller from Woods’ home asked for quick help – San Francisco Chronicle
A woman can be heard on a 911 recording asking a dispatcher to quickly send help for Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law after she collapsed in a bathroom at the golfer’s mansion. In the recording obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, the panicking woman tells the dispatcher that her mother has collapsed

UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record – Boston Globe
COPENHAGEN This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler

Protests add pressure for Copenhagen climate deal – The Province
BERLIN/COPENHAGEN — Climate activists staged protests on Saturday to add pressure on leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, to agree a strong deal to combat global warming at talks this month in Denmark. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

The Unrealistic Realist – Article.nationalreview.com
I f you happen to live in Kabul or Jalalabad, Ghurian or Kandahar, then a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is, indeed, about Afghanistan. If you live anywhere else on the planet, a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is really about

Key Dates in the Story of a Warming Planet – Democratic Underground.com
1750 — Before Industrial Revolution, atmosphere holds 280 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2). 1898 — Swedish scientist Svante Ahrrenius calculates that CO2 from coal and oil burning will warm the planet. 1955 — U.S. scientist

The end. – Boston Globe
The movies have always been drawn to the End of the World as We Know It. The first disaster film was arguably 1912 s Night and Ice, a re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic released within months of the actual event, and by the late

George F. Will – Newsweek
An adolescent asked Mozart how to compose symphonies. Mozart said that because the lad was so young, perhaps he should begin composing ballads. “But,” the young man objected, “you wrote symphonies when you were only 10 years old.” Mozart replied

David Leggat : Woods may have copped less flak if he was more human – New Zealand Herald
Some years ago a former New Zealand cricketer expressed a dim view of the then current players. At the time, New Zealand were getting beaten and copping hefty criticism for their performance by the media. They didn’t like it, wanting a bit of privacy

European protests demand tough climate deal – Channel NewsAsia
LONDON : Tens of thousands demonstrated in European capitals on Saturday, two days ahead of the vital Copenhagen summit on tackling climate change. In London, Paris, Stockholm and Dublin, people took to the streets to call for a far-reaching

Amanda Knox: A timeline of the Meredith Kercher murder case – Seattle Times
Amanda Knox: A timeline of events in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Nov. 1, 2007 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher is found dead in the bedroom of the apartment in Perugia, Italy, that she shared with 20-year-old University of Washington student Amanda Knox. The cause of death is a

CDC: Swine flu is widespread only in 25 states – Washington Post
ATLANTA — Swine flu infections continue to wane, just as vaccine is becoming plentiful enough that some communities are allowing everyone to get it, not just those in priority groups. Swine flu was widespread in only 25 states last week – mostly in the Northeast and Southwest, officials at the

Uchitel lawyer cancels press conference – AOL
LOS ANGELES(AP) A lawyer for a New York woman who has denied having an affair with Tiger Woods has canceled a news conference that had been scheduled for Thursday in Los Angeles. Attorney Gloria Allred says the news conference has been canceled due to what she terms unforeseen circumstances. Allred

Transcript shows man claiming to be spy helped FBI – Boston Globe
WEST COVINA, Calif. A Southern California man who claimed to spy on mosques for the FBI provided the agency with valuable information for a federal prosecution, a court transcript showed on Friday. The transcript from an August 2007 hearing states that Craig Monteilh (MON’-tay) provided “very

Devils Beat Lightning With Goal in Final Minute – New York Times
Jamie Langenbrunner scored with 38.1 seconds left in regulation to give the host Devils a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday night. Andy Greene fired a shot from the point that Langenbrunner deflected past Antero Niittymaki to give the Devils their seventh win in the last eight games at

Obama: Jobs plan will ‘jump-start’ hiring – Houston Chronicle
ALLENTOWN, Pa. Even as he trumpeted a slowdown in the nation’s job losses Friday, President Barack Obama put finishing touches on a proposal he’ll unveil next week to “jump-start” business hiring across America. In a speech from Washington on Tuesday, Obama plans to send Congress an initial list

AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com – NewOrleans.Com
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened “the end of the MP3″ with its fast song-streaming application. A person familiar with the matter confirmed the talks with The Associated Press but was not authorized

Ga. speaker resigns after lobbyist affair claim – Findlaw.com
ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned Thursday after a suicide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife of an affair with a lobbyist. Glenn Richardson, the state’s first GOP speaker since Reconstruction, had won sympathy from even his political enemies when he revealed last month

CDC: Swine flu is widespread only in 25 states – Washington Post
ATLANTA — Swine flu infections continue to wane, just as vaccine is becoming plentiful enough that some communities are allowing everyone to get it, not just those in priority groups. Swine flu was widespread in only 25 states last week – mostly in the Northeast and Southwest, officials at the

Harrington, Knicks surprise Hawks – Asbury Park Press
ATLANTA Al Harrington scored 27 points, Chris Duhon had 25 points and 10 assists and the New York Knicks used an effective combination of 3-pointers and drives to the basket to beat the Atlanta Hawks 114-107 on Friday night. David Lee, often matched against former University of Florida teammate

Transcript shows man claiming to be spy helped FBI – Boston Globe
WEST COVINA, Calif. A Southern California man who claimed to spy on mosques for the FBI provided the agency with valuable information for a federal prosecution, a court transcript showed on Friday. The transcript from an August 2007 hearing states that Craig Monteilh (MON’-tay) provided “very

TPC Benchmark Results Show Unisys Server Is Number One in Performance – MSN Money
illustrate that the performance of SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on Unisys servers can help customers significantly improve the efficiency of their data center operations and Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition

VirtualBox 3.1 Aims to Bag Enterprise Market – TechNewsWorld
By Jack M. Germain LinuxInsider Part of the ECT News Network 12/02/09 4:00 AM PT Sun Microsystems has bumped its VirtualBox virtualization utility to 3.1 status. New features include a so-called teleportation ability, which lets users move a running

IDC: Server market shows signs of gaining steam – Boston Globe
There’s good news and bad news in the worldwide server market, according to IDC , the market intelligence firm headquartered in Framingham. In its quarterly server tracker report, IDC first outlined the bad news: “Factory revenue in the worldwide

Woman on probation faces new drug charge – Times-Argus
in Vermont District Court in Barre on Dec. 17 to face a charge of cocaine possession following a search of her Berlin Street residence, the Montpelier Police Department said in a news release. Police said they received a call on Monday from the

Global Server Sales Break 2 Quarters Of Sequential Decline – CNN Money
The worldwide server market declined year-on-year for the fifth straight quarter during the summer but posted its first sequential growth of 2009, according to technology data tracker IDC Corp., exceeding its expectations. Factory revenue in the

Intel unveils energy-efficient 48-core chip – Infoworld
Intel is honing its sights on many-core chips that are far more powerful than today’s dual and quad-core processors. As expected, Intel took a big step in that direction today by unveiling a 48-core research chip that it says is 10 to 20 times more

IDC: Server market shows glimmer of hope – CNET News
IDC believes that platform migration is once again gaining steam in the market and the post-recession server deployment patterns will establish the technology agenda in the datacenter for the next business cycle,” said Eastwood. “For server vendors