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The Sports Xchange reports Predators D Ville Koistinen and RW Ryan Jones both were healthy scratches Saturday against the Stars. Koistinen was expected to be the quarterback of the power play this season but struggled against St. Louis Friday.
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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson took his seat in the House of Lords today following his appointment to the Cabinet by Gordon Brown.
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Sunday was Plaxico Burress’ first game in Pittsburgh since 2005 and Steelers fans disparagingly called him Dropsico and Plexiglass when he was there.
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Dallas C Brad Richards missed Friday's game against the Blackhawks with a lower-body injury. The Stars did not disclose how long Richards might be out, so he is day-to-day for now.
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New Hampshire's Senate Seat
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Comedy had indeed moved out of the clubs and into cyberspace with the white-hot intensity of a Lewis Black rant. YouTube may be the big box store of Internet videos, but there are lots and lots of sites that people can go to for a chuckle.
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Democrat Gerald E. Connolly won an open congressional seat in Northern Virginia yesterday, and the region's two incumbents, Republican Frank R. Wolf and Democrat James P. Moran Jr., cruised to victory in their bids for reelection.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Jeff Merkley won the closely contested U.S. Senate race in Oregon, defeating incumbent Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, a victory that helps Democrats expand their majority in Congress, the Portland Oregonian reported on Wednesday.
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He is certainly used to dealing with unruly schoolchildren.
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The Labour victor of the Glenrothes by election takes up his seat in the House of Commons.
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Houston forward Ron Artest was held out of Monday night's game against the Memphis Grizzlies because of a sore right ankle, the latest Rockets player to be sidelined with an injury. Artest joins a growing list of Houston players beset by injuries. Tracy McGrady missed his sixth straight game with left knee soreness, while guard Brent Barry is out with a small tear in the Plantar muscle on his right leg. Rookie Joey Dorsey also was expected to miss the game with a right foot injury.
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Joe Torre, who has missed the last 13 winter meetings, decided he could mix business with pleasure this year since the meetings coincided with Joe Torre’s annual “guys’ weekend” in Las Vegas.
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For 25 years, Marilyn Crosby tried to change the educational system in St. Mary's County through her work as a social studies and special education teacher and by writing dozens of letters to the editors of local newspapers.
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The Sabres played without captain Craig Rivet Friday against the Maple Leafs because of an upper-body injury. He is questionable heading into Saturday against the Devils.
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SEAT offering two accessories packages for the new Ibiza and other models too. There's a Protection Pack for the winter and a Style Pack that introduces a little color-coding for the interior.
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Bobcats SF Adam Morrison didn't play Tuesday against the Bulls, but he didn't have any injury. He has struggled recently, though, averaging 2.5 points in 21.8 minutes over his last four games.
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Italian maestro Fabio Luisi has visited Chicago only twice before, including a recent well-received appearance with the Dresden Staatskapelle in Orchestra Hall last month. His memorable debut Thursday with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra left the audience itching for a quick return.
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Edgerrin James, in his first extensive play since he was benched eight games into the season in favor of rookie Tim Hightower, carried 14 times for 100 yards in Week 17 against Seattle. Tim Hightower carried just three times for three yards. Ken Whisenhunt wouldn't commit to James being the starter against the Falcons in the first round of the playoffs. "I'm certainly not down on Tim Hightower," Whisenhunt said, "but we'll prepare for Atlanta and see what we feel is the best fit for us going forward."
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Frank Pace has produced several television shows and shadowed the likes of Muhammad Ali, but his real love is coaching the soccer team at the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy all-girls school. It doesn't happen as much as it should, but I've come across a real character -- with character.
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Heat SG Daequan Cook did not play on Wednesday with a knee injury he sustained on Tuesday against the Spurs. X-rays on the knee turned up negative, but he still was unable to go against the Nuggets on Wednesday.
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Left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan claimed a five-wicket haul, but not before Michael Hussey had steered Australia to a position of strength on the second day of the first Test here. Zaheer picked up three quick wickets shortly after tea as Australia were bowled out for an impressive 430.
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Today is the day that Fabio Capello puts Steven Gerrard in his place in more ways, it would seem, than one. The England manager revealed yesterday that the role in which Gerrard will play against Kazakhstan is the role in which he believes the player is best-suited for in the long term, but Capello was also insistent that it will be the manager – and not Gerrard – who dictates what that role is.
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MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) -- When 72-year-old Gladys Dressner first saw two snakes last in her new apartment last month, she froze. Days later, when an eight-inch snake crawled across her bed, she screamed. Finally, after stepping on a baby black rat snake, she moved....
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Sean Lineen's irrepressible optimism was tested to the limit yesterday as he announced that neither Dan Parks nor Thom Evans will play in today's vital Heineken Cup opener in Newport.
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While the audacity of a band of Somali pirates who recently hijacked a ship has grabbed the world’s attention, the suffering of millions of Somalis seems to go unnoticed.
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Briton Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix, in a bid to extend his World Championship lead. The McLaren driver will start ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the front row.
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The video community cuts back on developers, citing "market conditions and the recession."
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Regulatory board will immediately begin asking nurses about any convictions when they seek license renewals. The agency will also work to expand fingerprinting. California regulators have announced emergency measures to investigate the criminal backgrounds of all registered nurses in the state, days after The Times reported that dozens of nurses had kept their licenses for years despite multiple convictions.
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McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has claimed pole position for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix.
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Five people, including three children, were killed after a fire swept through a sixth-floor apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniard Albert Montanes has been awarded the third and final wildcard for the Madrid Masters along with Russian Marat Safin and Italian Fabio Fognini, the tournament organizers said on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist in a bid to revive faltering denuclearization talks in the final months of the Bush administration.
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The veteran guard has put together a fine NBA career while higher-profile teammates get the attention. Cuttino Mobley should do ads for Avis. If he were a politician, his biggest dream might be to become vice president.
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The actor worried about the political fallout from Oliver Stone's Bush biopic, but in the end he couldn't pass up the challenge. FRIENDS told him not to do it. He'd even turned it down once already. The possible maelstrom of partisan controversy weighed on him. But in deciding to play the Decider for Oliver Stone's new satirical biopic, "W.," Josh Brolin relied on a very non-George W. Bush-like standard: doubt. Unlike the 43rd president of the United States, a man fatally confident of his actions, Brolin wasn't sure he could pull it off.
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The morning appearance in the Rose Garden kicks off a weekend of high-stakes meetings between world finance ministers and central banks. President Bush and the finance ministers of seven of the world's most powerful economies stood shoulder to shoulder in the White House Rose Garden this morning and pledged to work together to resolve the crisis that has paralyzed global markets.
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City of Anderson police have reported that a man was shot in Belton Woods apartments in Anderson on Saturday afternoon.
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Five people, including three young children, died in an apartment fire, some taking refuge from the smoky blaze in a full bathtub and underneath a sink, fire officials said.
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Megan Dearing and her cousin Katie Dearing found a sixth-floor walk-up “one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment” on East 85th Street.
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Five people, including three children, were killed after a fire swept through a sixth-floor apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
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