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Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

By admin | Published May 25, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movement and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81….

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Sanchez loses no-hit bid in 9th, Tigers beat Twins

By admin | Published May 25, 2013

DETROIT (AP) — Anibal Sanchez took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before Minnesota’s Joe Mauer broke it up with a one-out single, and that was the only hit the Detroit right-hander allowed in the Tigers’ 6-0 victory over the Twins on Friday night….

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Column: IndyCar needs to start playin’ the feud

By admin | Published May 25, 2013

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — They have dinner together. They chat it up on Twitter. They offer congratulations on jobs well done, solace when things don’t go so well….

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Furlough Friday: Unpaid day off for many in gov’t

By admin | Published May 24, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide….

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    Brewers closer Henderson out with hamstring injury

    MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brewers manager Ron Roenicke says closer Jim Henderson is expected to be out “a while” with a pulled hamstring….

    Obama’s drone rules provide limits, ambiguity

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be d…

    Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent t…

    Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge

    WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is telling West Point cadets that sexual assault in the military must be stamped out….

    Rosberg fastest again in crash-marred 3rd practice

    MONACO (AP) — German driver Nico Rosberg posted the fastest time in the crash-marred third practice session of the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday….

    Kerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the c…

    Obama’s new wordsmith believes in public service

    WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast….

    Late turnovers doom Heat in Game 2 loss, 97-93

    MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James blamed one person after the Miami Heat let home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals slip from their hands….