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By Julie Pace WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama prepares to officially end the lengthy and divisive U.S. combat operation in Iraq, he’ll personally thank some of the soldiers who fought there for their service to a mission he forcefully opposed from the start. Many of those soldiers deployed from Fort Bliss, the sprawling Army [...]
By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP)—Roger Clemens put his right hand on the lectern, leaned down toward the microphone and made what might be the most important pitch of his life: “Not guilty, your honor.” Those words, uttered Monday in a strong, confident voice by the seven-time Cy Young Award winner sporting a [...]
By Doug Farrar You’d think that an All-Pro safety who missed 11 games in 2009 due to a knee injury would be most concerned about other body parts, but Pittsburgh Steelers superstar Troy Polamalu also has endorsements to consider. One of his endorsements is with the Head & Shoulders company, which makes sense when you consider [...]
By Erica Werner VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. – President Barack Obama is aiming to underscore his commitment to a region weary of calamity as he travels to New Orleans on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Obama ends his Martha’s Vineyard vacation Sunday and heads to the Gulf, five years to the day from when Katrina [...]
By Beau Dure BOSTON — UFC President Dana White had said earlier Saturday that he was worried about the fight between UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture and boxing veteran James Toney, knowing he’d never hear the end of it from the boxing community if Toney managed the upset. He needn’t have worried. Couture, an [...]
By Daniel Kreps The long-gestating Tupac Shakur movie may finally begin production this November, now that director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) has brought on Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson to pen a new script. Wilkinson tells Vulture that the film, originally written in a documentary style, will not be a biopic. Instead, [...]
By Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS – Paris Hilton was arrested late Friday after a police motorcycle officer smelled marijuana smoke wafting from a black Cadillac Escalade driven by her boyfriend on the Las Vegas Strip, then found cocaine in her purse, authorities said. A crowd quickly gathered when Hilton and Las Vegas nightclub mogul Cy [...]
A crackling crime drama assembled from a scrap heap of hoary cliches, “Takers” proves that everything old can sometimes really be new again. Everything in this exciting movie has been borrowed from other pictures, from the suave, resourceful bank robbers who execute perfect crimes to the pair of dogged police officers hellbent on nabbing them. [...]
By Jean H. Lee SEOUL, South Korea – A smile flickered across Aijalon Gomes’ face as he hugged former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and boarded a plane for Boston on Friday, seven months after his arrest in North Korea. Carter flew to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, this week on a private mission to secure [...]
By Mark Stevenson And E. Eduardo Castillo MEXICO CITY – The discovery of 72 slain Central and South American migrants on a ranch just south of the U.S. border provides a horrific reminder of the brutality of human trafficking in a country dominated by drug cartels. A wounded Ecuadorean who escaped the killing ground in [...]
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