Report: Google to Shut Down in China April 10

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Ex-Con Admits Encasing Pen-Pal Lover in Cement- Calif. Serial Killer Linked to More Cases

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Text Message Dispute Triggered Brutal Fla. Beating

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LIVESHOTS: Internal FBI Probe Over Relationship

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Netanyahu Dials Clinton Over 'Crisis'

Israeli PM, secretary of state agree to meet next week to confront embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims

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Food Festival

Food from dozens of countries were on display at MSU Billings Thursday night, offering Montanans a chance to tour the world with their taste buds.

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Last-second hoop propels Washington

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UNI wins it in final seconds

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Tennessee survives upset bid from San Diego St.

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Wake finishes Texas on last-second bucket in OT

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Kopecky scores twice, Blackhawks beat Kings (AP)

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WADA president calls on MLB to test for HGH (AP)

AP - World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey called on Major League Baseball and its players' union to start testing for human growth hormone.

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Wake Forest tops Texas 81-80 in OT on Smith's shot (AP)

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Woman In Alleged Anthony Affair Reveals Details

A woman who claims George Anthony confided in her about how Caylee Anthony died reveals details of her story to Local 6 News' Tony Pipitone.

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Man, 52, Burned In North Hills House Fire

A firefighter escaped death when he almost fell through the roof of a burning home in North Hills while a 52-year-old man was burned.

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Pondexter lifts Washington over Marquette 80-78 (AP)

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PIAA swimming Championships: North Allegheny boys take state title again

Diver Connor Kuremsky started the day for North Allegheny with a big splash, and by the time all of the events at the PIAA Class AAA championships had ended, the North Allegheny boys finished with

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NCAA tournament: Pitt wants Gibbs to shoot more

MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Ashton Gibbs likely is sick of hearing it from his teammates.

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Penguins beat Bruins, 3-0; Fleury finally get shutout

BOSTON -- Matt Cooke survived his evening at the TD Garden. Marc-Andre Fleury's streak of non-shutouts did not.

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Samsung Sees Double-digit Sales Growth: Reports

Samsung Sees Double-digit Sales Growth: Reports

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Ohio stuns Georgetown in tournament opener (AP)

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Goins helps Tennessee beat San Diego State 62-59 (AP)

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Andy Glockner: Ohio's domination no fluke

Sure, Ohio was a No. 14 seed, but it didn't seem like it once the game started. The Bobcats waxed third-seeded Georgetown 97-83, and Andy Glockner says that result was no fluke.

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NBA Capsules (AP)

AP - Vince Carter scored 27 points, Rashard Lewis added 24 including a huge 3-pointer with 28.4 seconds left, and the Orlando Magic blew a 12-point lead in the final 5 minutes of regulation before beating the Miami Heat 108-102 in overtime Thursday night.

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Questions Surround High-speed Crash On M-53

Police in Utica are investigating the cause of a high-speed crash that sent a young man to the hospital with serious injuries.

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How a Man Produces 1,500 Sperm a Second

In the last second your bodies each produced at least 1,500 sperm cells. Now researchers have unlocked just how this seminal feat is possible.

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Meningitis Clinic Set For Friday And Saturday In Oologah

Two vaccination clinics are scheduled for this Friday and Saturday at the Oologah-Talala Lower Elementary School. These clinics are designated only for students pre-K through seniors attending Oologah-Talala public schools, as well as district faculty and employees.

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RMU Fans Heartbroken By First-Round Loss

It was the end of the road for one hometown basketball team Thursday.  No.
2 Villanova beat out No. 15 Robert Morris 73-70 in overtime.  It was an emotional game for everyone.  RMU head coach Mike Rice fought
back the tears during his post-game press conference.

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Anti-smokers' next frontier: state parks

From the pines of Palomar Mountain to the sands of the Silver Strand, smokers soon could run short of options for public parks and beaches where they can legally light up.

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Get Your Passport Now; Hikes on the Horizon

Passport services for the U.S. State Department said the price for passports could go up as soon as April. The proposed hikes increase prices as much as 35 percent.

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Campus building bids low

The political squabbling over union hiring mandates hasn’t deterred nonunion contractors from seeking construction jobs in the San Diego Unified School District. But fewer companies are bidding for the work under a Project Stabilization Agreement implemented this year.

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Calf scramblers' year of work put to the test at rodeo

The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo was a chance to prove that they had lived up to the task of raising the animal they won last year.

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Suspects jailed in faked kidnapping

Two men wanted for their role in an extortion plot that cost the city $10,000 surrendered to police Thursday, but another suspect and the cash were still missing.

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Shot girl's family keeps bedside vigil


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Dallas County justice of the peace files suit, seeks recount

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Jayhawks struggle through 90-74 win over Lehigh (AP)

AP - For a while, it appeared Lehigh was going to take down the biggest Goliath of them all.

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Ex-Con Admits Encasing Pen-Pal Lover in Cement- Calif. Serial Killer Linked to More Cases

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Text Message Dispute Triggered Brutal Fla. Beating

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LIVESHOTS: Internal FBI Probe Over Relationship

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LIVESHOTS: Fighter Jet Completes Vertical Landing

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LIVESHOTS: La Jeunesse on Virtual Border Fence

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Cesar Chavez biopic in works (Reuters)

Reuters - The story of civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez is headed for the big screen.

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Brothers save man from plane wreckage in Lewisville Lake

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Kansas Beats Lehigh 90-74

No. 1 seed Kansas Jayhawks defeated Lehigh University in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament on Thursday, 90-74.

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Kansas Struggles Through 90-74 Win Over Lehigh

Marcus Morris scored 26 points, Sherron Collins added 18 and No. 1 overall seed Kansas survived a 90-74 win over scrappy Lehigh in the Midwest Regional on Thursday night.

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Ohio University students celebrate in streets after first-round NCAA tournament win

Several hundred Ohio University students flooded Court Street tonight after Ohio's 97-83 upset victory over Georgetown.

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Obituary: Jack Poloka / Worked to preserve Carpatho-Rusyn heritage in Pittsburgh

For many years, Jack Poloka worked 9 to 5 as an administrative manager for Equitable Gas. But it was what he did after his day job that really mattered.

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Huge 3-Pointer Lifts UNI Over UNLV

The Northern Iowa Panthers eeked out a 69-66 victory over the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.

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Violence in Mexico prompts some faith groups to curb trips

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Oak Ridge High School students beat girl; her mom is arrested defending her

The mother of an Oak Ridge High School student was arrested today after she tried to protect her daughter, who was being beaten by other students, authorities said.

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Families seek answers in deaths of inmates subdued at Dallas County jails

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Pikes Peak Region to wake to dramatic weather shift

Winds picking up tonight are blowing in a winter storm predicted to bring nearly 10 inches of snow in some areas of the Pikes Peak Region by Friday night.
In the 24 hours following Thursday's warm 70 degrees, Northern El Paso County could see as much...

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NCAA tournament: Love affair with state drives West Virginia

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- From West Virginia's panhandle to the far southern reaches, from down in Pineville clear over to Harpers Ferry, there are 15 young men who have become the undeniable identity of an entire state.

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Refurbished mission ready for debut

In a few days, the newly renovated church at Mission Concepción will finally reopen to the public after more than six months of painstaking work to repaint the walls in their original Spanish colonial color scheme.

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Eastside Auto Shop Bursts Into Flames

An auto shop on Des Moines' east side exploded in flames Thursday night while two men were working on a vehicle inside the garage.

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Alcohol 'worse than drugs' in Pacific: report (AFP)

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Beau Bridges joins "Rockford" revamp (Reuters)

Reuters - Beau Bridges is set to co-star opposite Dermot Mulroney on NBC's new version of "TheRockford Files."

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Witnesses: Car Weaving Through Traffic Before Crash

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Report: Google to Shut China Operation in April

U.S. Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans next week, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship and hacking.

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Seminole deputies seek robbers disguised as pizza deliverymen

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding two fake pizza deliverymen who stole a safe from a Casselberry-area home at gunpoint.

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Supreme Court to consider whether Pickton acted alone

Police and prosecutors are refusing to comment on arguments filed in the Supreme Court of Canada that suggest there is “considerable” evidence Robert Pickton did not act alone.

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Projected shortfall for Vancouver board of education rises to $18.12 million

The financial shortfall facing the Vancouver board of education has now risen to $18.12 million, trustees were told at a meeting tonight.

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BNP Paribas Japan: To Hire Staff From KBC Securities Japan

BNP Paribas Japan: To Hire Staff From KBC Securities Japan

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Beehives to be placed atop city hall

Vancouver is moving ahead with plans to make the city greener by installing beehives on the roof of city hall.

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Gen. to Testify in Haditha Massacre Case

Soldier Faces Charges after 2005 Incident That Left 24 Civilians Dead in Iraqi Town; Acquittals, Charges Dropped for 5 Others

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Chief ordered to give police review board G-20 reports

Police Chief Nate Harper must give the Citizen Police Review Board detailed reports related to dozens of arrests and police operations during the G-20 summit, a judge ruled Thursday, a decision the board's director said reaffirms its power to study broad issues of police and community relations.

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Jen and her men

Jen and her men Jennifer Aniston's off-screen love life has garnered plenty of attention but she has been paired with some of Hollywood's biggest names on screen.

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Discovery Channel series finds new 'Life'

PASADENA, Calif. -- In 2007, Discovery Channel's "Planet Earth" showed off this big, blue marble of a planet while revealing the benefits of watching nature specials shot and telecast in high

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TV Q&A with Rob Owen

This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about "NUMB3RS," "Defying Gravity" and "Ugly Betty."

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Testimony in baby's Rankin homicide wraps up

After a morning punctuated by outbursts and quarrels, testimony closed Thursday in the homicide trial of William Lorenzo Page.

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The Dribbler: Luck of the Irish?

Oh, the luck of the Irish. No, The Dribbler is not technically Irish. He's one-third Scandinavian, three-fifths Dutch, one-quarter Antarctican and 100 percent bad at math.

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Volusia deputies seek help finding taxi carjacker

Volusia County deputies hope the public can help them find a man who carjacked a 65-year-old taxi driver.

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SF's Carr is driven to win title

HERSHEY, Pa. -- South Fayette wrestling coach Michael Ladick is a big man who carries a big stick.

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As Others See It: Flight risk in Pittsburgh

From Chris Briem at his Null Space blog

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NCAA tournament: Pitt's negatives scarce vs Oakland

MILWAUKEE The Bradley Center's basketball floor was a vaguely desolate urban island Thursday afternoon; the Oakland University Golden Grizzlies practiced on it, but the mostly empty building

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CBO shows health bill cost

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats initiated a 72-hour final countdown Thursday on their yearlong effort to overhaul the health care system, unveiling a nearly final version of the legislation that promptly won additional support by promising to more than pay for itself over the next decade.

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Golf Roundup: Willis grabs early lead by 2

Padraig Harrington didn't have the best score at Innisbrook, just one of the biggest smiles.

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FedEx 3Q net income doubles

In what has become a quarterly tradition, the FedEx Corp. conference call Thursday was greeted with interest in not only what the call would reveal about the company and its earnings, but also what the big shipping company's CEO would reveal about the nation's economic situation.

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Developer has hopes for East Hills site

The developer who won a commitment from Wal-Mart two years ago to build a Supercenter to anchor a shopping complex in East Hills said Thursday that she was "shocked" when the retailer decided not to build, but remained confident the project would ultimately succeed.

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State's jobless rate rises to 8.9%

Pennsylvania's unemployment rate rose slightly to hit 8.9 percent in February. The new rate, announced Thursday, stayed below the national average.

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Review: Roman Polanski's 'Ghost Writer' disappoints

Roman Polanski brilliantly displayed his cynical view of the world in "Chinatown," the 1974 classic film of depravity hiding in the shadows of sunny, "innocent" 1930s Los Angeles. Robert Towne wrote the intelligent and heartless story.

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Film notes: 'Two Cities' lands a theatrical run

Carl Kurlander's "My Tale of Two Cities" will open its theatrical run at the SouthSide Works Cinema today and have a special screening for "Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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NASA, cruise line early recipients of swine flu shots

ATLANTA -- Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy office in Idaho.

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National Briefs (03/19/10)

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public's top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation's health care system keeps getting in the way.

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Return of Tiger: The world's top golfer has plenty to prove

Since 1997, the chief constant in golf has been the dominance of Tiger Woods. At 34, he is the game's most recognized and celebrated player.

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