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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 04:44 PM PDT |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 12:22 PM PDT  Tea Party-backed candidates helped and hindered Republicans, injecting enthusiasm into campaigns but losing Senate seats held by Democrats in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada that the GOP once had big hopes of capturing. |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 05:21 PM PDT  LSU twice rallied from second-half deficits and once again coach Les Miles employed a little trickery on fourth down, allowing the No. 12 Tigers to beat fifth-ranked Alabama 24-21 on Saturday.     |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 03:46 PM PDT The United Nations on Saturday rejected calls by south Sudan to send peacekeepers and set up a buffer zone along the country's tense north-south border ahead of a southern vote on independence next year. |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 05:08 PM PDT  Zenyatta came within a head of finishing a perfect career. Horse racing's biggest star closed from dead last, only for Blame to hold off the 6-year-old mare and win the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic. |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 05:08 PM PDT  Joe Paterno has become the first major college coach to win 400 career game after Penn State rallied from a three-touchdown deficit Saturday to defeat Northwestern 35-21. |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:53 PM PDT  Surfer Kelly Slater of Florida won a record 10th world title at the Rip Curl Pro Search on Saturday. |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 10:37 AM PDT  The 2,000-year-old "House of the Gladiators" in the ruins of ancient Pompeii collapsed on Saturday, officials said.  |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:44 PM PDT A congressional election on eastern Long Island that had appeared to end in victory for a four-term Democrat, U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop, is now up for grabs after authorities discovered they had misreported the result of the vote.  |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 03:07 PM PDT  Michael Shaw scored on a 1-yard run, Tate Forcier threw a 2-point conversion to Junior Hemingway and Michigan's defense stopped the potential tying 2-point try to lift the Wolverines to a 67-65 triple-overtime win over Illinois on Saturday. |
Posted: 05 Nov 2010 07:33 PM PDT  Jill Clayburgh, whose Broadway and Hollywood acting career stretched through the decades, highlighted by her Oscar-nominated portrayal of a divorcee exploring her sexuality in the 1978 film "An Unmarried Woman," died Friday. She was 66.  |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 11:45 AM PDT  In these volcanic valleys of central Mexico, on the Canadian prairie, across India's northern plain, they sow and they reap the golden grain that has fed us since the distant dawn of farming. But along with the wheat these days comes a harvest of worry. |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 12:18 PM PDT Hawaii voters opened the way for same-sex civil unions to become state law next year, with an election that gave victory to a pro-gay rights gubernatorial candidate and rejected many church-backed candidates. |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 10:10 AM PDT Textbook rental programs at many of the nation's colleges — touted as money-savers for students — are limited by the number of available titles, publishers who release frequent new editions and professors who believe their right to choose course materials is essential to academic freedom. |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 10:01 AM PDT  The woman stepped off Hadda Street into a pair of courier offices in Yemen's capital. In FedEx and UPS storefronts tucked among shopping centers and travel agencies in San'a, she mailed two Hewlett-Packard printers to the United States.  |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 03:38 PM PDT  Looking out her front window in a usually quiet residential neighborhood in this city, Deanna Goldstein's knees began to shake. |
Posted: 06 Nov 2010 09:07 AM PDT  Tropical Storm Tomas spun away from the Turks and Caicos Islands and into the open Atlantic on Saturday, gradually losing steam a day after battering seaside towns in Haiti as a hurricane. |
