Sports Briefs: Astros choose Mills for manager
HOUSTON ” Brad Mills is finally getting his chance to run a big-league team. The 52-year-old Mills was hired by Houston on Tuesday after six seasons as Terry Francona s bench coach in Boston. He ll manage in the majors for the first time, thou...
 5.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 83.0 Man charged with killing UConn football player; lawyer says he was trying to break up fight
STORRS, Conn. (AP) The lawyer for a 21-year-old man charged with killing University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard says his client was trying to break up a fight and was not involved in the stabbing that took the starting cornerback s...
1.2K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 193.0 Sports Briefs: Pujols to have surgery on elbow
ST. LOUIS For the second straight offseason, Albert Pujols will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow. The St. Louis Cardinals said in a brief news release that the two-time NL MVP will undergo a debridement procedure which could be use...
3.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 83.0 Sports Briefs: Button clinches Formula One title
SAO PAULO Jenson Button clinched his first Formula One title with a fifth-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday and his Brawn GP team made history by becoming the first to take the constructors crown in its debut season. Red Bull s Ma...
3.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 131.0 Tigers collapse in tiebreaker
MINNEAPOLIS Misplayed flyballs, poor baserunning, squandered at-bats. Jim Leyland s team made a season s worth of mistakes, all in one game. The Detroit Tigers put a fitting end to a historic collapse by committing every blunder imaginable in a 6-5...
3.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 83.0 Jury acquits woman on murder charges
PORTLAND (AP) A Multnomah County jury on Tuesday acquitted a 44-year-old woman on charges that she murdered her ex-boyfriend. Colleen Coco Richardson had been accused of killing 38-year-old James Tanner Earl on April 12, 2008. Richardson told polic...
0.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 83.0 Sources: Family tried to sell snatched Tennessee baby
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A kidnapped newborn and three siblings were taken away from their mother following allegations that a family member tried to sell the baby, according to officials familiar with the case. Mom Maria Gurrolla was briefly reunited...
3.7K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 166.0 Guinea protest toll is now 157
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) Soldiers reeking of alcohol menaced Guinea s capital today, a day after the military s presidential guard shot at pro-democracy demonstrators in the West African country, leaving at least 157 people dead, a human rights group s...
4.6K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 83.0 Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins dies
LOS ANGELES Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer. Atkins ...
6.8K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 193.0 Police charge horrorcore rapper in death of pastor
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A 20-year-old California man calling himself Syko Sam rapped in his horrorcore lyrics on the best feeling derived from killing people slowly, watching their last breaths. Richard Alden Samuel McCroskey III is now accused of kil...
1.6K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 131.0 Explosive fears
There were the two in August, and a hoax or two in January, but law enforcement officials say bomb incidents in Coos County are not becoming an explosive trend. That doesn t mean they re putting down their guard. The potential risk to human life is a...
5.5K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 83.0 Man stabbed to death at Eugene park
EUGENE (AP) Eugene police are investigating the stabbing death of a homeless man. A homeless woman found 36-year-old James David Pelfrey s body Tuesday near the basketball courts at Washington-Jefferson Park. The homicide is the third in Eugene thi...
0.7K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 833.0 A fun but far from perfect Getaway
A Perfect Getaway is essentially one big red herring, flopping around on an idyllic Hawaiian beach, desperately trying to call attention to itself. Everyone s a suspect and no one s a suspect, and writer-director David Twohy s raison d etre with thi...
3.3K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 83.0 Awaiting the executioner
SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. They were waiting down at Gibson Chevrolet near Chicago for a couple of five-gallon cans of sodium silicate liquid glass, they call it to poison and kill the clunkers when the latest condemned car pulled up. The 1999 Ford E...
5.7K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 83.0 Police: Dad fatally shoots daughter, foster dad
DYERSBURG, Tenn. Neighbors in Tennessee are asking why a teenage girl fatally shot by her father was placed with a foster family just two doors down after he was accused of abusing her. Christopher Milburn, 34, killed the 15-year-old and her foster...
3.4K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 83.0 Angels wrap up sweep of Yankees
ANAHEIM, Calif. John Lackey pitched seven solid innings and the Los Angeles Angels knocked around CC Sabathia to complete a sweep of the New York Yankees with a 5-4 victory Sunday. Lackey (4-4) quickly worked through the Yankees lineup, allowing tw...
4.5K - Jul. 13, 2009; scored 83.0 Sweet 16 on the high seas
BUDERIM, Australia Jessica Watson stares out at the expanse of Pacific Ocean from the deck of her family home. The sun glistens off the calm sea and all appears tranquil. In September, Watson s experience of the ocean will likely be much different ...
7.5K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 83.0 NL: Cincinnati pitcher overcomes early pain for win
CINCINNATI Johnny Cueto walked four of his first eight batters, grabbing his lower back after one pitch. Everyone in the Arizona Diamondbacks dugout could see something was wrong. He didn t look comfortable, manager A.J. Hinch said. You could see...
5.9K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 83.0 La Pine man accused of stabbing woman
LA PINE (AP) - Assault and attempted murder charges have been filed against a Central Oregon man accused of striking a woman with a telephone and then stabbing her with a knife. The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office says the incident occurred late Sa...
0.7K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 333.0 Taking it slow
COOS BAY - Bay Area Hospital is well into its fourth month with a new man in charge, but it's hard to tell anything has changed. Managers, hospital directors and nurses have said the new leader, Paul Janke, is receptive, friendly and easy to talk to...
4.7K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 83.0 | 
