| Castelli, Shnapir win US pairs crown Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:53 PM PST  Hometown favorites Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir won their second consecutive pairs title despite only managing a third-place finish in Saturday's free skate at the US Figure Skating Championships. Shnapir, a tall Moscow-born skater whose parents emigrated to the United States when he was a baby, and Castelli took the overall crown with 205.71 points. "It was just amazing," Castelli said of the cheers after their performance. Caydee Denney and John Coughlin, the 2012 US champions, won the free skate with 136.03 but finished third overall on 201.43 points.
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| Weather stops Idaho plane crash recovery; 5 dead Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:49 PM PST  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bad weather Saturday morning turned back a recovery team attempting to reach the wreckage of a small airplane that went down in the central Idaho mountains in early December.
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| No. 2 Syracuse beats North Carolina 57-45 Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:47 PM PST  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — When James Michael McAdoo gave North Carolina an early boost against No. 2 Syracuse, the Tar Heels seemed ready to escape from their recent funk. The Orange defense had other ideas.
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| Proud Franklin announced as coach at Penn State Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:47 PM PST  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State has hired James Franklin as its next head coach.
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| Ex-Israel premier Sharon dead at 85 Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:47 PM PST  Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon died in hospital near Tel Aviv Saturday after eight years in a coma, prompting a flood of tributes in Israel but contempt from Palestinians. Sharon had been comatose since January 4, 2006 after suffering a massive stroke. Professor Shlomo Noy of Sheba hospital said Sharon's heart "had weakened" and that he died at around 1200 GMT. Sharon will be buried on Monday afternoon at his ranch in the Negev desert in southern Israel after a memorial service in parliament starting at 0730 GMT.
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| Chili Peppers to join Bruno Mars at Super Bowl Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:43 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Bruno Mars will have help from the Red Hot Chili Peppers when he performs at the Super Bowl next month. |
| PSG fail to shine but extend lead at top Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:42 PM PST  Paris Saint-Germain were not at their best in their first Ligue 1 game of 2014, but they still managed to extend their lead at the top of the table to five points after coming from behind to beat Ajaccio 2-1. Bottom club Ajaccio had taken the lead at the Stade Francois-Coty through an early Eduardo goal, but Ezequiel Lavezzi pulled the visitors level before the break and Blaise Matuidi headed in what proved to be the winner after 74 minutes. It was not a classic performance from Laurent Blanc's side, but they are now five points clear at the top of the table from Monaco, who were held to a 1-1 draw at Montpellier on Friday. We needed to be on top of our game in the opening 20 minutes but we were not, and we switched off and conceded a goal," said Blanc.
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| Violence erupts in Bangui after resignation of ex-rebel leader Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:37 PM PST  Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - Deadly violence including reports of cannibalism and widespread looting erupted in the capital of the Central African Republic after the resignation of its ex-rebel president, who left to Benin Saturday. Michel Djotodia arrived in Benin's capital after stepping down as president under intense diplomatic pressure on Friday, as a flare up of violence in Bangui dashed hopes his resignation would cool tensions in the strife-torn nation. In the hours after his resignation at least five people were killed in a night punctuated by gunfire according to the latest toll reported by the Central African Red Cross.
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| A-Rod banned for 2014 season, arbitrator rules Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:36 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez was dealt the most severe punishment in the history of baseball's drug agreement when an arbitrator ruled the New York Yankees third baseman is suspended for the entire 2014 season as a result of a drug investigation by Major League Baseball.
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| Franklin announced as next coach at Penn State Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:34 PM PST STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State has hired James Franklin as its next head coach. |
| Dallas group set to auction permit to hunt rhino Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:33 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — Hunt the black rhino to save the black rhino.
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| Tap water may be out for days after W.Va. spill Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:32 PM PST  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Several hundred thousand people in West Virginia remained without clean tap water for a third day Saturday following a chemical spill and a water company executive said it could be days before uncontaminated water is flowing again.
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| McDaniels' 24 shoot down No. 16 Duke 72-59 Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:14 PM PST CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — K.J. McDaniels scored 24 points and Jaron Blossomgame had career highs with 14 points and 14 rebounds as Clemson defeated No. 16 Duke 72-59 Saturday, the Blue Devils second straight Atlantic Coast Conference road loss. |
| Milan Fashion Week seeks renewal Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:08 PM PST  MILAN (AP) — It was out with the old, and in with the new as Milan Fashion Week got under way Saturday.
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| McAuliffe sworn in as Virginia governor, as Clintons look on Posted: 11 Jan 2014 01:06 PM PST  By Gary Robertson RICHMOND (Reuters) - Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a major party fundraiser, was sworn in as governor of Virginia on Saturday, cheered on by his friends former President Bill Clinton and potential White House contender Hillary Clinton. McAuliffe, 56, who led a Democratic sweep of the three top offices in the swing state, took the oath at the state Capitol, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson. The governor, who has never before held public office, in November narrowly defeated Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the outgoing attorney general and a favorite of the party's conservative Tea Party wing.
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| Yankees' Rodriguez banned for 2014 season by arbitrator Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:51 PM PST  New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez will be suspended for the entire 2014 Major League Baseball (MLB) season and playoffs for doping after an independent arbitrator on Saturday rejected the All-Star third baseman's appeal. A defiant Rodriguez said he would take the fight to clear his name all the way to federal court and according to reports has plans to take part in the Yankees' spring training next month. Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz notified both MLB and the Players Association that Rodriguez, who is baseball's best paid player, "will be suspended for a period that includes 162 regular season games in the 2014 regular season as well as the entire 2014 post season", the league said in a statement.
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| Indonesia's law on ore exports takes effect Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:40 PM PST JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian law banning the export of unprocessed minerals took effect Sunday. |
| In war or withdrawal, Sharon marched to his own drum Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:37 PM PST By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A maverick in war and politics, Israel's Ariel Sharon reshaped the Middle East in a career marked by adventurism and disgrace, dramatic reversals and stunning rebounds. Loathed by many Arabs and a divisive figure within Israel, Sharon left his mark on the region as perhaps no other through military invasion, Jewish settlement building on captured land and a shock decision to pull out of Gaza. Some diplomats believed that had he remained in good health, he would have secured peace with the Palestinians after overcoming domestic critics to force through the withdrawal of troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005. "As one who fought in all of Israel's wars, and learned from personal experience that without proper force, we do not have a chance of surviving in this region ... I have also learned from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land," Sharon said in 2004, explaining his move. |
| Weather Channel says safety at risk in dispute Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:32 PM PST PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The Weather Channel asked its viewers Saturday to urge Congress to intervene in its business dispute with DirecTV, arguing that it can harm public safety if the satellite system pulls the network off the air for nearly 20 million viewers. |
| Factbox on Alex Rodriguez Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:26 PM PST (Reuters) - Alex Rodriguez, widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, was suspended for the entire 2014 Major League Baseball (MLB) season and playoffs for violating the league's drug policy and labor contract after an arbitrator on Saturday rejected the All-Star third baseman's appeal. - Born: July 27, 1975 (Aged 38) - Made MLB debut in July 1994 with the Seattle Mariners and had a .309 batting average, 189 home runs and 595 runs batted in (RBI) over seven seasons in Seattle. - Joined the Texas Rangers as a free agent in 2000 after signing a 10-year deal worth $252 million, which at the time was the most lucrative contract in MLB history. - Rodriguez had arthroscopic surgery in his hip on January 16, 2013 to repair a torn labrum, delaying his first MLB game of the 2013 season until August 5. |
| Neiman Marcus is latest victim of security breach Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:26 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Luxury merchant Neiman Marcus confirmed Saturday that thieves stole some of its customers' payment card information and made unauthorized charges over the holiday season, becoming the second retailer in recent weeks to announce it had fallen victim to a cyber-security attack.
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| Avenging United stop rot, Chelsea go top in Premier League Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:19 PM PST  Manchester United stemmed a run of three consecutive defeats by avenging last weekend's FA Cup loss to Swansea City with a 2-0 win over the Welsh club on Saturday. Defeats by Tottenham Hotspur, Swansea and Sunderland had left United at risk of losing four successive games for the first time since 1961, but they blew off the cobwebs with an improved display at Old Trafford. Antonio Valencia and Danny Welbeck claimed second-half goals to leave United four points outside the Premier League's top four in seventh place, six days after Swansea had dumped them out of the FA Cup on the same pitch.
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| Arbitrator cuts A-Rod suspension to 162 games Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:16 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez's drug suspension was cut to 162 games from 211 by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, a decision the New York Yankees third baseman vowed to fight in federal court. |
| No tears for Sharon at site of Sabra and Shatila massacre Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:06 PM PST By Alexander Dziadosz BEIRUT (Reuters) - Abu Jamal still remembers when Lebanese militiamen allied to Israel woke him and his family early one September morning more than three decades ago and dragged them out into the street. The gunmen forced him and other Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps to line up, separated the men and women, and dragged young men from the line to be killed. Abu Jamal's son, 19 at the time, was among those they chose. "He was in his last year of school," said Abu Jamal, who wears a button with his son's picture on his sweater and asked that his full name not be used. |
| Palestinians cheer death of Sharon, a bitter foe Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:05 PM PST  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Ariel Sharon's death Saturday elicited a wide range of responses from Palestinians, but sadness wasn't one: Some cheered and distributed sweets while others prayed for divine punishment for the former Israeli leader or recalled his central role in some of the bloodiest episodes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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| Baseball's A-Rod vows to fight on after 2014 season doping ban Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:03 PM PST  Alex Rodriguez, the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball, was given a record 162-game doping suspension by an arbitrator on Saturday, banning him for the entire 2014 season and playoffs. The New York Yankees third baseman, a three-time American League Most Valuable Player who helped the Yankees win the 2009 World Series, vowed to appeal the ban to a US federal court. Rodriguez, who was given a harsher ban after evidence showed he tried to impede a probe into the matter, will fight despite the players' union and Major League Baseball saying the arbitration decision was the final word on the matter under the terms of their labor deal. "I have been clear that I did not use performance enhancing substances or violate the basic agreement or the joint drug agreement in any manner and in order to prove it I will take this fight to federal court," Rodriguez said.
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| AMC announces premiere for 'Better Call Saul' Posted: 11 Jan 2014 12:02 PM PST  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Walter White's lawyer is returning to Albuquerque.
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| Lawmaker to seek more documents from Christie in New Jersey bridge scandal Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:57 AM PST  By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey lawmaker on Saturday said he intends to formally request Governor Chris Christie and his staff hand over more correspondence and documents related to the bridge scandal that has engulfed Christie, a rising star in the Republican Party. Assemblyman John Wisniewski, a Democrat who chairs his legislative body's Transportation Committee, told CNN he would make the request on Monday because "there's still a lot of documents we haven't gotten we'd like to see." Wisniewski's comments came a day after more than 1,000 pages of anxiously-awaited papers, subpoenaed by New Jersey lawmakers, were made public. They relate to revelations a member of Christie's staff appeared to have orchestrated massive traffic jams over four days in September on the George Washington bridge that severely affected the town of For Lee, in what may have been political payback because the mayor there did not endorse Christie's election bid. Christie, a powerful figure in the Republican Party and a likely contender for the White House in 2016, has adamantly denied any knowledge of an apparent scheme to snarl traffic.
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| 4 hospitalized in W.Va. after chemical spill Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:50 AM PST  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A handful of people have been hospitalized and several hundred thousand remain without water after a chemical leaked from a storage tank in Charleston into the public water treatment system, state authorities said Saturday.
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| Ukraine ex-minister beaten in fresh Kiev clashes Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:49 AM PST  Ukraine's ex-interior minister turned opposition leader Yuriy Lutsenko was in hospital with concussion Saturday after being beaten in fresh clashes between pro-EU demonstrators and club-wielding police. Ruling party lawmaker Yuriy Polyachenko, who visited the hospital, said Lutsenko had been transferred out of intensive care and was "in a stable condition". A few hundred nationalist demonstrators protested late Friday outside a Kiev court that had earlier in the day sentenced three men to six years in prison for allegedly plotting to blow up a statue of Soviet founder Lenin near the city's main airport in 2011. Ukrainian television showed several protesters being carried by stretcher to an ambulance that had been rushed to the scene.
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| Leaders, others react to the death of Ariel Sharon Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:48 AM PST  Here is a selection of reactions from world leaders and others to the death of former Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was both admired and despised for his bold style and hard-driving tactics.
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| David Cassidy arrested in LA on suspicion of DUI Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:47 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seventies heartthrob David Cassidy has been arrested in Southern California on suspicion of drunken driving. |
| Colombia's Pareja named coach for MLS Dallas Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:45 AM PST  Oscar Pareja, a former Colombian international midfielder, has been named coach of Major League Soccer side FC Dallas. Pareja played 11 seasons in Colombia, helping Deportivo Cali to a national crown in 1996 before joining Major League Soccer in 1998, netting 13 goals over eight seasons in Dallas before retiring in 2005. Pareja served as an assistant coach in Dallas until being named to coach the MLS Colorado Rapids after the 2011 season.
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| No QB has Manning's playoff experience, heartbreak Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:42 AM PST  DENVER (AP) — No quarterback has been to the playoffs more than Peyton Manning or experienced more heartache there, either.
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| Indonesia eases mineral export ban after opposition Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:39 AM PST  Bogor (Indonesia) (AFP) - Indonesia's president signed off on a controversial mineral ore export ban Saturday after an 11th-hour easing of the policy following opposition from miners and warnings it would hit state coffers, cabinet ministers said. Ministers announced late Saturday night that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had signed the watered down version of the regulation just an hour before it came into effect. This means many miners -- including US giant Freeport McMoRan, the biggest miner operating in resource-rich Indonesia -- can continue to export. Exports of some key metals, such as nickel and bauxite, are still set to be banned in the nearer future, which may affect a number of miners, the Indonesian Mining Association warned.
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| Egypt: ultraconservative Salafis gamble on charter Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:32 AM PST  EL-SAF, Egypt (AP) — Police cars crammed the courtyard of a youth center in this rural town outside Cairo, where an ultraconservative Islamist party was holding a conference on the draft national constitution. The new charter, written mainly by liberals and backed by the military, would ban political parties based on religion, give women equal rights and protect the status of minority Christians.
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| Ex-NFL player on trial for fatal drunken wreck Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:30 AM PST  DALLAS (AP) — Josh Brent is no longer a Dallas Cowboy, but the stars on his old helmet figure heavily into his upcoming trial for a teammate's death in a 2012 wreck.
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| Sharon, Israel's bulldozer in politics, dies at 85 Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:06 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — It was vintage Ariel Sharon: His hefty body bobbing behind a wall of security men, the ex-general led a march onto a Jerusalem holy site, staking a bold claim to a shrine that has been in contention from the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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| Former Israeli PM and military commander Ariel Sharon dead at 85 Posted: 11 Jan 2014 10:55 AM PST  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, the trailblazing warrior-statesman who stunned Arab foes with his dramatic turnarounds, died on Saturday aged 85, after eight years in a coma caused by a stroke. Sharon left historic footprints on the Middle East through military invasion and Jewish settlement-building on occupied land the Palestinians seek for a state but also with a shock decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The United States and other foreign powers mourned Sharon as a peacemaker, noting his late pursuit of dialogue with the Palestinians. Those negotiations continue under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, though differences remain wide.
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| FBI: Kenya mall attackers believed to be dead Posted: 11 Jan 2014 10:42 AM PST NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The gunmen who attacked an upscale mall in Kenya's capital, killing at least 67 people, likely died in the attack, an FBI official has said. |
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