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Royals' Tejada suspended 105 games for PED use

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 11:59 AM PDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Miguel Tejada has been suspended 105 games by Major League Baseball for violating its joint drug program, one of the longest suspensions ever handed down.

Jackson's ex-wife reveals singer's private moments

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 10:28 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 file photo, Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson's former wife and mother of two of his children, leaves Los Angeles County Superior Court after testifying in the negligence lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, against AEG Live, in Los Angeles. Rowe told a Los Angeles jury on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, that injuries and medical conditions left the singer feeling disfigured and forced him to wear wigs and de-pigment his skin. These difficult treatments she said were made harder by Jackson's superstar status. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:

Ind. team leads fight against child pornography

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 09:40 AM PDT

In this Feb. 19, 2013, photo, Indiana State Police Lt. Chuck Cohen poses for a photo in a mobile crime lab in Indianapolis. The lab is used by an Indiana task force that is building a national reputation for aggressive pursuit of child pornographers worldwide. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — In a cluttered office cubicle in a nondescript building on Indianapolis' derelict east side, a man with rolled-up shirt sleeves scans email attachments of videos that depict startlingly young children being sexually tormented in ways that can make even federal judges weep.

Usain Bolt wins men's 200 meters at worlds

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 09:40 AM PDT

Jamaica's Usain Bolt reacts after winning a men's 200-meter semifinal at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)MOSCOW (AP) — Usain Bolt won his second gold medal of the world championships, cruising through the finish line to win the men's 200 meters Saturday.

Egypt: Brother of al-Qaida chief arrested

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 08:09 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have arrested the brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri, a security official said Saturday.

Roll Tide! Alabama No. 1 in AP preseason poll

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 07:21 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Alabama will begin this season the way it ended the last two — No. 1.

Israeli settlers defy stereotype amid peace talks

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 06:51 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, photo, Micha Drori and his wife, Ora, watch their children play in the garden of their house at the settlement of Barkan in the West Bank. The fate of Jewish settlements took center stage in mid-August 2013 with the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks aimed at establishing a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)BARKAN, West Bank (AP) — Micha Drori is living the Israeli dream: a house, a yard, a wife and three kids. The 42-year-old businessman has found an affordable alternative to Israel's booming real estate market in a quiet community he loves, with a commute of less than half an hour to his job near Tel Aviv.

AP-NORC Poll: Parents back high-stakes testing

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 06:21 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Often criticized as too prescriptive and all-consuming, standardized tests have support among parents, who view them as a useful way to measure both students' and schools' performances, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.

SF Bay Area building demolition fuels quake study

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 06:21 AM PDT

Workers walk away from Warren Hall on the California State University, East Bay Hayward Campus Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, in Hayward, Calif. The 13-story Warren Hall, which opened in 1971, was determined by the California State University Seismic Review Board to be the most vulnerable building in the CSU system, and will be demolished on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) — Every time the ground trembles in the San Francisco Bay Area, people ask themselves: Could this be the big one?

Police storm Egypt mosque filled with protesters

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 05:49 AM PDT

Egyptians security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, following a day of fierce street battles that left scores of people dead, near Ramses Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. Authorities say police in Cairo are negotiating with people barricaded in a mosque and promising them safe passage if they leave. Muslim Brotherhood supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president are vowing to defy a state of emergency with new protests today, adding to the tension. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)Witnesses say that Egyptian security forces have stormed a Cairo mosque after firing tear gas at hundreds of Islamists supporters of the country's ousted president barricaded inside.

Egypt: Death toll in Friday's clashes rises to 173

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 05:19 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry a wounded man during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Ramses Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)An Egyptian government spokesman says the death toll in Friday's clashes has risen to 173 nationwide.

Egypt: Son of top Muslim Brotherhood leader killed

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 05:03 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry a wounded man during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Ramses Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said Saturday that a son of its spiritual leader was killed during fierce clashes in downtown Cairo, as hundreds of Islamists supporters of the country's ousted president remained barricaded inside a mosque.

Divers search Philippine ferry for dozens missing

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 03:45 AM PDT

Volunteers search near the damaged cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete a day after it collided with a passenger ferry off the waters of Talisay city, Cebu province in central Philippines, Saturday Aug. 17, 2013. Divers combed through a sunken ferry Saturday to retrieve the bodies of more than 200 people still missing from an overnight collision with a cargo vessel near the central Philippine port of Cebu that sent passengers jumping into the ocean and leaving many others trapped. At least 28 were confirmed dead and hundreds rescued. The captain of the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas, which was approaching the port late Friday, ordered the ship abandoned when it began listing and then sank just minutes after collision with the MV Sulpicio Express, coast guard deputy chief Rear Adm. Luis Tuason said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)At least 31 were confirmed dead and hundreds were rescued after ferry collided with a cargo vessel near the central Philippine port of Cebu.

Insurgents kill 10 at Afghan construction camp

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 12:58 AM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior official says insurgents have attacked a construction camp in western Afghanistan, killing nine workers and a policeman.

Egypt street battles leave at least 82 dead

Posted: 17 Aug 2013 12:28 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry a wounded man during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Ramses Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's capital descended into chaos Friday as vigilantes at neighborhood checkpoints battled Muslim Brotherhood-led protesters denouncing the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi and a deadly crackdown. The fiercest street clashes Cairo has seen in more than two years of turmoil left at least 82 people dead, including 10 policemen.

Divers search Philippine ferry for 213 missing

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:24 PM PDT

A Filipino trooper explains how he survived as their ship sank in Cebu, central Philippines late Friday Aug. 16, 2013. Passenger ferry MV Thomas Aquinas with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday night after colliding with a cargo vessel, and a survivor said he saw bodies in the sea. (AP Photo/Chester Baldicantos)CEBU, Philippines (AP) — Divers combed through a sunken ferry Saturday to retrieve the bodies of more than 200 people missing from an overnight collision with a cargo vessel near the central Philippine port of Cebu that sent passengers jumping into the ocean and leaving many others trapped. At least 28 were confirmed dead and hundreds rescued.

Red-hot Dodgers beat Sandberg, Phillies 4-0

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 08:22 PM PDT

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Zack Greinke throws to the Philadelphia Phillies during the first inning of a baseball game on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Christopher Szagola)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Zack Greinke pitched three-hit ball into the eighth inning and Hanley Ramirez homered to lead the streaking Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-0 victory over new manager Ryne Sandberg and the slumping Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night.

24 killed, 274 missing in Philippines ferry accident

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 07:52 PM PDT

A cargo vessel docked at a sea is pictured after colliding with a passenger ferry in TalisayBy Enrique de Castro CEBU, Philippines (Reuters) - A Philippine ferry sank after colliding with a container ship owned by a company involved in the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster, killing at least 24 people and leaving more than 200 missing, the coast guard said on Saturday. Divers were searching for bodies in the ferry, which sank on Friday minutes after the collision just outside the port of Cebu in the central Philippines that left two holes in the bow of the cargo vessel. Some 629 people had been rescued, many by fishing boats, with 217 missing, the coast guard said. ...

Ferry sinks in collision in Philippines; 24 dead

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 06:34 PM PDT

A Filipino trooper explains how he survived as their ship sank in Cebu, central Philippines late Friday Aug. 16, 2013. Passenger ferry MV Thomas Aquinas with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday night after colliding with a cargo vessel, and a survivor said he saw bodies in the sea. (AP Photo/Chester Baldicantos)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A ferry with more than 800 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu after colliding with a cargo vessel, killing at least 24 people. Hundreds of others were rescued, the coast guard said Saturday.

2 Russians turn cable guys in record spacewalk

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:59 PM PDT

In this image from video made available by NASA, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin approaches a hatch on the International Space Station, about 7 hours into a spacewalk with Aleksandr Misurkin on Friday, Aug, 16, 2013. The Russians rigged cable outside the station for a new lab that's due to arrive in a few months. (AP Photo/NASA)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a record-long spacewalk, Russian cosmonauts rigged cable outside the International Space Station on Friday for a new lab that's due to arrive in a few months.

Pilots of UPS flight got late altitude warning: NTSB

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:41 PM PDT

Handout photo of NTSB investigators retrieving recorders from the wreckage of UPS flight 1354 in BirminghamThe crew got an alert seven seconds before impact according to the cockpit voice recorder.

Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:27 PM PDT

Children inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. A wave of car bombs in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday killed and wounded dozens of people, the latest attacks in a months-long surge in violence. More than 3,000 people have been killed in violence during the past few months, raising fears Iraq could see a new round of widespread sectarian bloodshed similar to that which brought the country to the edge of civil war in 2006 and 2007. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)WASHINGTON (AP) — A resurgence of violence and a renewed threat from al-Qaida have recently revived flagging U.S. interest in Iraq, officials said Friday as Baghdad asked for new help to fight extremists less than two years after it forced American troops to withdraw.

Q&A about kidnapping of California girl

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013 file photo, Hannah Anderson arrives at the Boll Weevil restaurant for a fundraiser in her honor to raise money for her family, in Lakeside, Calif. Five days earlier, FBI agents killed longtime family friend James DiMaggio who's suspected of torturing and killing Anderson's mother and brother and escaping with her to the Idaho wilderness. Investigators who searched DiMaggio's home found letters from Hannah, an incendiary device, a handcuff box and SAN DIEGO (AP) — James Lee DiMaggio killed his close friend and her 8-year-old son on Aug. 4 at his rural house east of San Diego and fled with her 16-year-old daughter, authorities say.

At least 64 dead after gunfire and street battles in Egypt

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:55 PM PDT

Egyptians lay on the ground after being injured during clashes between security forces and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Ramses Square, near the Al-Fath mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Heavy gunfire rang out Friday throughout Cairo as tens of thousands of supporters of Egypt's ousted president clashed with armed vigilantes in the fiercest street battles to engulf the capital since the country's Arab Spring uprising. At least 64 people were killed in the fighting nationwide, including police officers.

Egypt clashes leave at least 60 dead nationwide

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 01:41 PM PDT

Egyptians lay on the ground after being injured during clashes between security forces and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Ramses Square, near the Al-Fath mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Heavy gunfire rang out Friday throughout Cairo as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with armed vigilantes in the fiercest street battles to engulf the capital since the country's Arab Spring uprising. At least 60 people were killed in the fighting nationwide, including eight police officers.
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