The Wire

  • Indians blank Mariners 6-0

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 5:20pm

    (AP) — Cy Young himself wouldn't want to mess with the Indians right now.

  • Officer shot in Marathon showdown wants to work

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 5:06pm

    (AP) — With a bullet still in his body, the police officer who survived a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he's determined to return to duty.

  • Sweden wins world hockey title

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 5:05pm

    (AP) — Sweden became the first home team to win the world hockey championships in 27 years, beating Switzerland 5-1 on Sunday.

  • Belmont Stakes: Oxbow vs. Orb in the cards

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 5:01pm

    (AP) — Another year, another Triple Crown hopeful unable to come through.

  • Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 4:51pm

    (AP) — The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a life.

  • Top Libyan official: Benghazi explosion accident

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 4:48pm

    (AP) — Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack.

  • Video shows kidnapped Egyptian security officers

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 4:38pm

    (AP) — Seven men purported to be the members of Egypt's security forces kidnapped by suspected militants last week appeared in a video posted online Sunday and urged the government to secure their release by meeting their captors' demands.

  • Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 4:24pm

    (AP) — President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.

  • Metro-North: Conn. train outage expected for days

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 4:23pm

    (AP) — Tens of thousands of commuters are bracing for a difficult trip around southwest Connecticut and to New York City beginning Monday as workers repair the Metro-North commuter rail line crippled by a derailment and crash.

  • AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 4:19pm

    (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.

  • Fate of LA pot shops left to voters

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 4:17pm

    Updated on May 19, 2013 at 4:27pm

    (AP) — Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.

  • Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 3:57pm

    Updated on May 19, 2013 at 3:57pm

    (AP) — In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.

  • Ferguson's managerial career ends with 5-5 draw

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 3:55pm

    (AP) — Alex Ferguson. Former Manchester United manager.

  • McDowell beats Jaidee to win World Match Play

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 3:53pm

    Updated on May 19, 2013 at 3:53pm

    (AP) — Graeme McDowell made amends for last year's defeat to capture the World Match-Play Championship on Sunday, defeating Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee 2 and 1 in the final on the Thracian Cliffs course.

  • Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 3:46pm

    (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:

  • Small Fla. city wonders who won Powerball jackpot

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 3:31pm

    Updated on May 19, 2013 at 3:35pm

    (AP) — Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history.

  • Jamie Dimon under pressure ahead of investor vote

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 3:31pm

    (AP) — Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country's biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether to let him keep both jobs.

  • Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 3:06pm

    (AP) — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to the Mediterranean coast.

  • NY 'frisk' judge calls criticism 'below-the-belt'

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 2:43pm

    (AP) — The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she stands with the government.

  • Tunisia security blocks salafi conference, 1 dead

    Posted on May 19, 2013 at 2:42pm

    Updated on May 19, 2013 at 2:44pm

    (AP) — Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country, prompting clashes with angry youths that resulted in one death.