Sports Briefs: Seattle releases Edgerrin James
RENTON, Wash. The struggling Seattle Seahawks have released running back Edgerrin James. The Seahawks made the move Tuesday, two days after a lackluster 38-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. James signed with Seattle in late August hoping to revitaliz...
 4.3K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 169.0 State fines agents in investment scam
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services completed an investigation involving 10 investment brokers including two Bay Area insurance agents who collected more than $5 million from residents, many of them elderly. A state cease...
4.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 169.0 Sampras and Agassi will meet in exhibition
HONG KONG Even though the stakes may not be as high as in their epic clashes of the past, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras aren t planning to put on a friendly exhibition. The two American icons, who staged one of tennis greatest rivalries, will play...
2.8K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 169.0 Nadal and Roddick want shorter season
SHANGHAI Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick complained today that the ATP season is too long and that tennis players need a proper offseason. Both players, who are in China for the Shanghai Masters, reiterated criticism of the sport s punishing schedule...
2.1K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 219.0 Dems, choose friends wisely
Nearly as unappetizing as the video of ACORN workers explaining how to run a prostitution business, cheat on taxes and import underage streetwalkers from Central America is the presence of Michael Moore s mug on TV screens everywhere. Having helped t...
3.1K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 219.0 Buyer for shuttered Eugene plant
PORTLAND (AP) A South Korean leather manufacturer that s jumping on the solar bandwagon reportedly plans to buy the closed Hynix semiconductor plant in Eugene and make solar cells and modules there. An official of a company affiliated with South Ko...
1.1K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 219.0 House passes bill to prevent shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) The House passed legislation Friday to head off a government shutdown next week by temporarily extending spending on most federal programs at current levels, while boosting lawmakers office budgets by more than 8 percent. The House...
3.3K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 219.0 Sports Briefs: Russian man working on deal to buy the Nets
NEW YORK Russia s richest man has a deal to buy a controlling interest in the New Jersey Nets and nearly half of a project to build a new arena in Brooklyn. Mikhail Prokhorov s Onexim Group announced the deal with Forest City Ratner Companies and N...
4.6K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 280.0 Census worker slain
MANCHESTER, Ky. When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drew on years of experience for a warning: Be careful. The 51-year-old Sparkman was fo...
7.0K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 322.0 Sports Briefs: Portland signs Howard
PORTLAND Veteran forward Juwan Howard signed a one-year contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, the team announced Thursday. Howard a 15-year veteran, averaged 4.1 points in 42 games with Denver and Charlotte last season. Terms were not disclosed...
6.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 253.0 Quake size, location are part of tsunami alert
Curiosity about what sorts of seaquakes would set off a tsunami alert inspired one of the questions in this edition of Ask AP, a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers questions about the news. If you have your own news-rela...
4.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 219.0 Column: Williams received special treatment after tirade
LeGarrette Blount got banned from college football for his outlandish outburst. Serena Williams got invited back to play doubles in the U.S. Open after hers. Blount called people to personally apologize for what he did, yet will never again play for ...
4.9K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 169.0 Federer denied sixth straight Open title
NEW YORK Roger Federer sat in his sideline chair, listening to the music, gazing into the distance the glassy-eyed look of a defeated man. Shocked. The owner of the most Grand Slam titles in history maybe the best player of all time finally l...
5.5K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 448.0 Clijsters completes stunning run at Open
NEW YORK Someday Kim Clijsters will show her daughter the pictures Jada pointing at herself on the giant video boards, scampering around the court and leaning over to touch the trophy. The 18-month-old is too young to remember her mother s unforg...
4.1K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 253.0 Rain delays U.S. Open matches
NEW YORK Rain threw the U.S. Open schedule into disarray for the second consecutive year, meaning both singles finals will be pushed back, and the tournament will end Monday at the earliest. All of Friday s matches were postponed because of steady ...
2.0K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 169.0 Rain gives Nadal a welcome break
NEW YORK If any player needed a break at the U.S. Open, it was Rafael Nadal. His stomach muscles clearly hurting, the third-seeded Nadal got some time to heal when his match against No. 11 Fernando Gonzalez was postponed because of rain late Thursd...
4.1K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 280.0 Wozniaki ends Oudin's run at U.S. Open
NEW YORK Melanie Oudin came to New York with a bag of rackets slung across her shoulder and a few modest goals. She ll leave with a different kind of life. Her run at the U.S. Open ended Wednesday, but not before the 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga.,...
5.3K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 280.0 Oudin pulls off another upset at U.S. Open
NEW YORK When Melanie Oudin wakes up each morning these days, sharing a king-sized hotel bed with her mother, she s basically your average teen visiting the big city. Then the 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., gets out on court at the U.S. Open in th...
7.4K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 219.0 NFL prepares for no salary cap
NEW YORK NFL commissioner Roger Goodell foresees an uncapped 2010 season as the league and the players union negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. Goodell said Thursday that owners are preparing for no salary cap next season, citing the...
3.2K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 169.0 Sounders earn first trophy
WASHINGTON The Seattle Sounders hope to build on their U.S. Open Cup championship when they return to MLS play. Freddy Montero and Roger Levesque scored to lead Seattle to a 2-1 victory over D.C. United in the Open Cup final Wednesday night, giving...
4.3K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 169.0 | 
