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Published May 23rd, 2013 - 8:52PM
Add another near miss in this 2013 baseball season - this time it was Detroit's Anibal Sanchez falling just short of a no-hitter.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 8:27PM
Mike Trout had his 21st multi-hit game, Jason Vargas pitched into the eighth inning and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 on Friday night to extend their winning streak to six games.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 8:03PM
John Lackey allowed two hits in seven innings, Mike Carp hit a three-run homer and the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 8-1 on a rainy Friday night.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:12PM
Edwin Encarnacion hit his fifth career grand slam, J.P. Arencibia homered and drove in four runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 12-6 on Thursday night, spoiling the debut of Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 5:27PM
Edwin Jackson pitched just three innings Thursday before being removed following a long rain delay. That was long enough for the Cubs right-hander to absorb another loss.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 4:42PM
The jury in Jodi Arias' trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a unanimous decision on whether the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend should be sentenced to life or death in a case that has captured headlines worldwide with its sex, lies, violence.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 3:42PM
The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 3:32PM
A year and a half before the Boston Marathon bombing, the man Tamerlan Tsarnaev called his best friend died in a grisly crime: He was one of three men found nearly decapitated in an apartment, their throats slashed ear to ear, marijuana sprinkled over their bodies.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 3:27PM
The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders – a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 3:07PM
It was hard to tell whether the Pittsburgh Pirates were heading on a road trip or getting ready for a Stanley Cup playoff game after beating the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Thursday for their fourth straight win.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 2:52PM
A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 2:42PM
Investigators have discovered the blood of a missing 15-year-old Iowa girl on the truck of a registered sex offender suspected of kidnapping her Monday, diminishing the chances of finding her alive, a lead investigator said Thursday.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 2:42PM
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said it was "imperative" that Europe's leaders create a new agency with powers to restructure busted banks in order to help the region leave its economic and financial crisis behind it once and for all.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 2:02PM
The stock market headed lower in midday trading Friday, putting it on track for its first weekly loss in a month.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:47PM
A father who told two of his sons to pretend they were swimming as he drowned them in a Dallas-area creek was sentenced to death on Thursday.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:47PM
A Dallas man who drowned two of his sons in a creek has been sentenced to death.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:42PM
It was another ugly quarter for Sears Holdings Corp.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:27PM
Stocks prices are closing mostly lower on Wall Street, giving the market its first weekly loss in a month.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:07PM
A New Jersey man behind the wheel of a van that careened off of an Illinois freeway and overturned, killing five passengers returning from a California ministry gathering, had his driving privileges suspended last year for administrative reasons, motor vehicle records show.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 12:32PM
An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday, she lost.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 12:12PM
In some early versions of a story May 22 about damage estimates from the tornado in Moore, Okla., The Associated Press misspelled the name of the city's mayor. He is Glenn Lewis, not Glen.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 11:52AM
The Obama administration has chosen a private attorney and former federal prosecutor who helped send former Illinois Gov. George Ryan to prison for corruption to head the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, Illinois' senators announced Thursday.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 11:12AM
For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 11:12AM
President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrowing terror threat that still imperils the nation but now is defined by smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. He defended his controversial drone-strikes program as a linchpin of the U.S. response to the evolving dangers.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:47AM
International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:27AM
Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe an unusually wild one, federal forecasters say.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:27AM
A 15-year-old boy is in custody after authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of his younger adopted brothers found him miles away with traces of blood on him, officials said.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:27AM
One loved unicorns. Another, nicknamed "ladybug," sang country songs. Another dreamed of one day owning a pontoon boat.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 10:22AM
Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing activists and possible copycat terror attacks by Islamic extremists after the savage slaying of a young soldier, whose grieving family spoke Friday of their loss.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 9:12AM
Residents of a northeastern North Dakota city who evacuated their homes when rain-fed floods threatened to overwhelm a nearby dam began returning home Friday, bringing with them a huge sense of relief.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:47AM
Average rates on fixed mortgages rose for the third straight week, hitting their highest levels since mid-March. Still, mortgage rates remained close to historic lows, a trend that should help sustain the housing recovery.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:22AM
World stocks stabilized on Friday, a day after global markets dropped sharply on concerns global growth is slowing and the Federal Reserve could start scaling back its monetary stimulus.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:22AM
Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) - in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:12AM
Average rates on fixed mortgage rose for the third straight week, hitting their highest levels since mid-March. Still, mortgage rates remained close to historic lows, a trend that should help sustain the housing recovery.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:12AM
U.S. sales of new homes rose in April and nearly matched the fastest pace in five years, driving the median price to a record high. The gains suggest the housing recovery is strengthening.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 7:02AM
Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street, putting the market on track for its first weekly loss after four weeks of gains.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 5:42AM
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:47AM
Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. A surviving attacker took a group of soldiers hostage, and authorities were attempting to negotiate their release.
Published May 23rd, 2013 - 1:07AM
The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 11:52PM
Burch Smith's first stint in the major leagues was a short one.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 11:52PM
Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 11:07PM
A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police said.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 10:47PM
The Indians ended a long day at the ballpark soggy and sleepy.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 10:32PM
Paul Konerko would have loved the sweep. This wasn't bad, though.
Published May 22nd, 2013 - 10:07PM
Tyler Lyons pitched seven solid innings in his major league debut on the same day St. Louis lost Jaime Garcia for the season, and the Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 5-3 on Wednesday night.
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