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Tennis great Jimmy Connors was arrested outside the campus arena where UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina were playing a basketball game.
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Tennis star Jimmy Connors has been arrested after an altercation at a college basketball game in California, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
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Firefighters were racing early Friday to push back a wind-whipped wildfire that destroyed at least 100 homes and a college dormitory, injured four people and forced thousands to flee the longtime celebrity hideaway of Montecito.
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With its perpetually blue skies and taco stands, Santa Barbara remains a laid-back town where the star attraction is still the beach.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency, and local groups are pitching in to assist evacuees. At least 1,500 acres have burned in the Montecito and Santa Barbara city areas. Firefighters from across the state braced for a new blast of hot evening winds as they fought to contain a fire that has destroyed up to 200 homes and charred at least 1,500 acres in the coastal foothills above Santa Barbara.
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iReporter Sean Checketts talked to Headline News about the massive fire destroying homes in Santa Barbara County.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A bonfire built by a group of young adults caused a weekend wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion dollar mansions, and injured more than two dozen people, authorities said Tuesday....
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A California wildfire that engulfed 210 homes and injured more than two dozen people began as a bonfire built by several young adults.
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A group of college students who lit a ridge-top bonfire is being blamed for accidentally sparking one of three ferocious wildfires that collectively destroyed about 1,000 homes and blacked more than 65 square miles.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Even at less than his best, Tyler Hansbrough was a welcome sight in the lineup for his North Carolina teammates....
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Even at less than his best, Tyler Hansbrough was a welcome sight in the lineup for his North Carolina teammates.
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Jeff Adrien has 22 points and grabs 14 rebounds to lead No. 2 Connecticut to a hard-fought 89-81 victory over La Salle on Friday.
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Tennis great Jimmy Connors was arrested outside the campus arena where UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina were playing a basketball game.
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Tennis star Jimmy Connors was released after he was arrested outside the campus arena where UC Santa Barbara and North Carolina were playing a men's basketball game.
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Last season's national player of the year returns from injury to score 13 points. No. 1 North Carolina 84, at UC Santa Barbara 67: Tyler Hansbrough had 13 points in his season debut, and the Tar Heels easily defeated the Gauchos in front of a sellout crowd of 6,000. Hansbrough, last season's national player of the year, sat out the first two games for North Carolina (3-0) because of a stress reaction in his right shin. James Nunnally scored a career-high 19 points off the bench for Santa Barbara (1-2). The last time the Gauchos played host to a No. 1 team was in 1991, when they lost, 76-55, to defending national champion Nevada Las Vegas.
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Bernard Madoff is accused of running a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, perhaps the largest in Wall Street's history.
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Gauchos' second-half rally falls short in 70-63 loss. MEN
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Suspect is charged with violating injunction against associating with members of gang. All he wants for Christmas is a good defense attorney.
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Casper Ware scores 15 points in the second half to lead 49ers to a 76-64 victory. MEN
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A man is due to appear in court on Monday after police seize £50,000 worth of cocaine in Fife.
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Police say they're not sure how the man, 31, is connected to the Huntington Beach woman who was found dead at the Starlight Inn motel Friday night. A 31-year-old man was arrested today in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found inside a Huntington Beach motel Friday night, police said.
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Col. Joey R. Preston, who also is Anderson County administrator, was inducted into the Order of Saint Barbara on Sept. 16.
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Six people are arrested for a number of drugs offences following the search of a property and a car in Dundee.
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A 26-year-old man is stabbed several times in Londonderry, and a man has been stabbed in the neck in Portadown.
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Police arrest a man and a woman over the unexplained death of three-month-old baby boy in Dorset.
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Stars of golf offer support to Seve Ballesteros, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour.
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Spanish golf legend and five-time major winner Severiano Ballesteros has announced he is suffering from a brain tumour. The 51-year-old former player was taken into hospital for intensive care after he briefly lost consciousness.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants, police said....
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Pakistani police arrested a 20-year-old American man late Monday in a militant-infested area close to the Afghan border, an officer said.
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Santa Ana winds have whipped up a wildfire that has burned more than 3,000 acres north of Los Angeles, sparking mobile home fires.
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A 20-year-old American man was arrested at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al Qaeda militants, a police officer said.
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A security official says the militants appear to be linked to a group inspired by Al Qaeda. The action follows two deadly bombings in and near Tripoli. Lebanese security forces rounded up a group of Islamic militants believed to be responsible for a pair of bomb attacks targeting soldiers in the northern city of Tripoli, authorities said Monday.
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A security official says the militants appear to be linked to a group inspired by Al Qaeda. The action follows two deadly bombings in and near Tripoli. BEIRUT -- Lebanese security forces rounded up a group of Islamic militants believed to be responsible for a pair of bomb attacks targeting soldiers in the country's northern city of Tripoli, authorities disclosed Monday.
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Hall of fame legend Joe Jordan is baffled by players who turn their backs on Scotland.
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Two housekeepers who worked at the Beckhams' Hertfordshire mansion were arrested for allegedly selling their stolen possessions online.
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American man arrested in Pakistan border area where troops fighting militants.
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A man is arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a woman at a house on South Tyneside.
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A 62-year-old man is arrested in connection with the rape of a girl in Buckinghamshire 28 years ago.
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Police arrest an Israeli-Arab man who sparked rioting in Acre by driving through a Jewish area during the Yom Kippur holiday.
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Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz says he would relish a chance to re-join ex-boss Mark Hughes at Manchester City and play alongside Robinho.
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British newspapers are reporting that two people who worked for soccer star David Beckham and his wife were arrested after some of the couple’s possessions were spotted on an Internet auction site.
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Detectives armed with new forensic evidence arrested a man today in connection with the rape of a teenage girl 28 years ago.
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British newspapers are reporting that two people who worked for David Beckham and his wife were arrested after some of the couple's possessions were spotted on an Internet auction site.