Baseball: Giants pitcher tosses no-hitter
SAN FRANCISCO Jonathan Sanchez, an unlikely candidate, pitched the majors first no-hitter this season Friday night, dominating the San Diego Padres with an array of pitches in the San Francisco Giants 8-0 victory. The 26-year-old left-hander retu...
 6.3K - Jul. 11, 2009; scored 323.0 Police baffled by 30 burnt palm trees
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Galveston officials are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months. What we've got on our hands, a serial tree arsonist, I've never seen before, said Galveston Fire Marshal Gilbert Robinson. I've talk...
1.4K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 417.0 Ike's memories weigh on Galveston
GALVESTON, Texas Another hurricane season is the last thing Galveston wants to think about after last year s devastation from Hurricane Ike. Hurricane season got here a lot quicker than I thought it would. I m still busy working on my own house, tr...
4.2K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 1000.0 Committee drops four storm names
MIAMI (AP) - Gustav, Ike, Paloma and Alma are off the World Meteorological Organization's rotating list of storm names. A committee voted to retire them because the storms caused such heavy damage. In the Atlantic, Gustav, Ike and Paloma will be repl...
0.8K - May. 2, 2009; scored 483.0 N.Y. Times wins five Pulitzer prizes, other papers take awards amid downsizing
NEW YORK - The historic collapse of the American newspaper industry was evident at every turn as the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced. One winner was laid off three months ago. Winning newspapers have eliminated home delivery and editions to stay ...
7.7K - Apr. 21, 2009; scored 323.0 NL: Dodgers top San Diego on stellar pitching from Hiroki Kuroda
SAN DIEGO The Los Angeles Dodgers finally beat Jake Peavy, and Manny Ramirez didn t even get a hit. Hiroki Kuroda outpitched the Padres ace, leading the defending NL West champions to a 4-1 victory Monday. I knew that their pitcher was going to be...
5.0K - Apr. 7, 2009; scored 323.0 It's lights out for many in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky. More than a million homes and businesses left in the cold without power today in the wake of an icy winter storm could face a lengthy wait for electricity to come back, even as federal help was promised to two states hit hardest by ...
5.4K - Jan. 29, 2009; scored 323.0 Buried box yields Texas treasures after hurricane
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) A contractor helping clear debris from Hurricane Ike is looking for the owner of an ammunition box he found buried in sand that contained keepsakes, including an 1863 Confederate $50 bill, war medals and diamond earri...
1.5K - Jan. 22, 2009; scored 511.0 Authorities struggle to make power outages less deadly
WASHINGTON For many of the growing millions who depend on home medical equipment, a power outage goes way beyond the inconvenience most of us feel. It could be deadly. It s an issue that snuck up on emergency officials as better medical treatments...
12.0K - Jan. 12, 2009; scored 830.0 Solomon knows his states
Do you know what state Hurricane Ike slammed into earlier this year? Solomon Newnham does. And because the Coos Bay seventh-grader gave the correct answer of Texas, he finished in first place in the geography competition at Sunset Middle School held ...
0.9K - Dec. 19, 2008; scored 323.0 Storms helped Gulf Coast fish
It turns out there may be an upside to a busy Gulf of Mexico hurricane season if you happen to be a shrimp or a clam. The silver lining on the storm clouds has to do with the effect of tumultuous tropical weather on the Gulf s oxygen-depleted dead...
5.5K - Nov. 28, 2008; scored 615.0 College Picks: Teams try to avoid upsets this weekend
It s weeks such as these when the college football season can get turned upside down. Only one game on the schedule matches ranked teams South Carolina at Florida. Another game serves as a good reminder of how drastically the national championship ...
4.1K - Nov. 13, 2008; scored 323.0 | 
