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Doha and Baku cut from 2020 Olympic bid field
Doha and Baku were eliminated from the race for the 2020 Olympics on Wednesday as the IOC trimmed the field of candidates from five cities to three. Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul made the cut as the International Olympic Committee executive board settled on a shortlist of finalists. Doha, capital of ...
Liddi's slam leads Seattle past Texas 5-3
Considering his rarified place in baseball history, it's no wonder Alex Liddi could not stop grinning. He also wouldn't mind getting use to the occasional curtain call. "Obviously big-time guys do it and when you have to do it a good thing," Liddi said. Liddi hit the first major league ...
Stage and screen actress Janet Carroll dead at 71
Actress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71. Carroll's son, George Brown, said the actress died Tuesday in New York after a long illness. Carroll worked steadily since that breakthrough role with Cruise in 1983. Her film ...
Obama birth certificate OK by Arizona official
Arizona's secretary of state said Wednesday that Hawaii's official verification of President Barack Obama's birth records meets necessary requirements, meaning the president's name will appear on Arizona's ballot in the fall. The inquiry launched recently by Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett gave official weight to a long-simmering political controversy ...
HP to cut 27,000 jobs to save up to $3.5B annually
Hewlett-Packard Co. is cutting 27,000 jobs in an effort to recover from management missteps that hobbled the Silicon Valley pioneer as its rivals raced ahead with more innovative products and services. The streamlining announced Wednesday represents HP's largest payroll purge in its 73-year history. The reductions will affect about 8 ...
High winds trash cars at Minn. dealership
A burst of strong winds has damaged dozens of vehicles at a south-central Minnesota car dealership. Winds and heavy rain ripped through Kohls-Weelborg Chevrolet in New Ulm around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. General manager Doug Schablin (shah-BLEEN') says the storm hit without warning. He says the rain and wind "turned everything ...
US reaches pollution agreement at BP Indiana plant
BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to install $400 million in new air pollution controls at its northwestern Indiana oil refinery and pay an $8 million fine under a deal announced Wednesday with the government and environmental groups. The oil giant agreed to the fine to settle allegations of ...
Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election. In a conference call announcing efforts to get gay and lesbian voters engaged in the Obama campaign, officials said poll ...
Unabomber submits update to Harvard alumni book
Harvard University's alumni association says it regrets including the Unabomber's references to his convictions in a directory for his 50th class reunion this week. Ted Kaczynski (kah-ZIHN'-skee) graduated in 1962 and is in prison for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. ...
Pressure on EU leaders to solve Greek crisis
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy says EU leaders have agreed to promote economic growth by better mobilizing EU policies, stepping up investment and focusing on job creation. Balancing budgets and promoting growth are not contradictory, Van Rompuy said early Thursday at the end of a European Union summit meeting ...
Wallace heads Hall of Fame group
Sprint Cup champion Rusty Wallace hated running second to anyone and doesn't plan to start now that he's part of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Wallace, the 1989 series champion who won 55 races, headed the group of five picked Wednesday as NASCAR's newest Hall of Famers. The others selected ...
Thomas, Decker building rapport with Manning
Peyton Manning's two biggest targets are a pair of promising young receivers who have already made their mark in the NFL despite spending lots of time on the sideline. Neither Demaryius Thomas nor Eric Decker has put together a complete season in the NFL — or, for that matter, a ...
HP to cut 27,000 jobs to save up to $3.5B annually
Hewlett-Packard Co. is cutting 27,000 jobs in an effort to recover from management missteps that hobbled the Silicon Valley pioneer as its rivals raced ahead with more innovative products and services. The streamlining announced Wednesday represents HP's largest payroll purge in its 73-year history. The reductions will affect about 8 ...
First 787 built in SC takes maiden flight
South Carolina's burgeoning aeronautics industry flew by another milestone Wednesday as the first Boeing 787 manufactured in the state completed its maiden flight. The first aircraft from Boeing's new $750 million assembly plant in North Charleston lifted gracefully into a hazy blue sky shortly after noon. It returned more than ...
Monsignor: Cardinal wanted accusers kept in dark
A Roman Catholic church official conceded that a 1994 list he compiled of 35 priests suspected of sexually abusing children in the Philadelphia archdiocese included some "pretty sick individuals." Monsignor William Lynn took the stand in his own defense Wednesday in a groundbreaking child-endangerment and conspiracy case. Prosecutors blame Lynn ...
Haslem suspended for Game 6 of Heat-Pacers
Udonis Haslem insists he meant no harm. The NBA deemed otherwise, and the Miami Heat will be without one of their co-captains when they try to close out the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night. Haslem was suspended for Game 6 of the Miami-Indiana Eastern Conference semifinal series, a matchup where ...
3 Doors Down guitarist Matt Roberts leaves band
3 Doors Down says on its website that founding member and guitarist Matt Roberts has left the rock band because of health problems. The statement Wednesday says Roberts has problems with blood circulation and other health issues. It calls the split amicable. Roberts grew up with bassist Todd Harrell and ...
Anne Hathaway's ex to be released from US prison
An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a U.S. federal prison following a real-estate scam. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Raffaello Follieri is scheduled to be released Friday from a prison in Pennsylvania. Follieri pleaded guilty to cheating investors by falsely ...
Indiana man charged with murdering 3rd woman
An Indiana prosecutor isn't ruling out the possibility that a convicted sex offender charged in the killings of three women may have other victims, saying Wednesday the man has shown "an outrageous disregard for human life." William Clyde Gibson, who has a lengthy criminal record, was brought into Floyd Superior ...
California nuke trouble could prompt rule review
The saga of troubled tubing at California's San Onofre nuclear power plant could prompt a review of federal rules under which equipment is routinely replaced inside the nation's reactors, the country's top nuclear regulator said Wednesday. San Onofre, located on the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, has been ...
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