The release felt solid - the way it had all game - whether it was a silky jumper or violent dunk. This time, Amar'e Stoudemire stepped behind the 3-point arc, outside his normal range. The ball left his right hand and settled into the net, igniting the loudest roar Madison Square Garden had heard in years, the apparent game-winner at the buzzer topping Paul Pierce's apparent game-winner with 0.4 of a second left.
This week, Steve Pearlstein, a columnist for The Washington Post, locked horns with Google over the thorny subject of the search giant's dominance and its quest to spread into new corners of the Web by buying other companies.
TEHRAN - A solemn Shiite religious mourning ceremony near a mosque in southeastern Iran was shattered by a double suicide bombing on Wednesday, leaving at least 39 people dead and many more wounded.
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The Yankees have seen Carl Crawford from the beginning, from his first month in the majors with Tampa Bay in 2002. They have seen him slash line drives into gaps and over fences. They have seen him charge around the bases and soar to snag fly balls that seemed destined to fall. They have seen him lead his team to the top of the standings.
HIGH BRIDGE - A 52-year-old woman hiking the Columbia Trail alone here was hit in the chest with a rock thrown from a bridge over the trail, police said Wednesday.
The nonprofit world is stewing over the ban Apple has put on making donations on the iPhone via charity apps.
No one, including Apple, has data on how many nonprofits have created apps for the iPhone. Organizations like the Monterey Bay Aquarium and American Cancer Society have them, but none can be used to make gifts. Prospective donors instead are directed out of a nonprofit's app and to its Web site, which the organizations say makes the process of contributing more cumbersome.
It was September 2008 and a band of Somali pirates made a startling discovery. The Ukrainian freighter they had just commandeered in the Gulf of Aden was packed with weapons, including 32 Soviet-era battle tanks, and the entire arsenal was headed for the regional government in southern Sudan. The Ukrainian and Kenyan governments vigorously denied that, insisting that the tanks were intended for the Kenyan military.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA took a giant leap away from the spaceflight business Wednesday as a private company launched a spacecraft into orbit and for the first time guided it safely back to Earth, a feat previously achieved only by large national governments.
Elderly people in a new study cut their risk of falling by more than half after they took classes in eurhythmics, an exercise-and-music program designed for young children.
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Mohamed Osman Mohamud had seemed to be a well-adjusted American teenager: a solid student whose interests included basketball, girls and the night life at Oregon State University, where he studied engineering.
TEHRAN - Unidentified assailants riding motorcycles launched bomb attacks early on Monday against two Iranian nuclear physicists here, killing one of them and prompting accusations by Iran that the United States and Israel were behind the episode.
WASHINGTON TWP. - A Shire Drive resident has died of injuries suffered when he fell from a ladder - apparently while putting up Christmas lights, police said Monday.
Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in "Airplane!" and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" comedies, has died. He was 84.
Travis S on 16 Dec 10The release felt solid - the way it had all game - whether it was a silky jumper or violent dunk. This time, Amar'e Stoudemire stepped behind the 3-point arc, outside his normal range. The ball left his right hand and settled into the net, igniting the loudest roar Madison Square Garden had heard in years, the apparent game-winner at the buzzer topping Paul Pierce's apparent game-winner with 0.4 of a second left.
