The Wire

  • Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 8:55pm

    (AP) — An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident.

  • No Triple Crown: Oxbow upsets Orb at Preakness

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 8:46pm

    (AP) — A pair of not so over-the-hill Hall of Famers pulled off a huge upset in the Preakness and ended any hopes of a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes.

  • Chella Choi takes lead at Mobile Bay LPGA Classic

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 8:36pm

    (AP) — Anna Nordqvist was putting like a rookie again — and that's a good thing.

  • Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 8:34pm

    (AP) — Authorities say a police officer's bullet killed a New York college student during the response to a home invasion at an off-campus home.

  • Ed Carpenter earns Indy 500 pole

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 8:32pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 8:33pm

    (AP) — Ed Carpenter turned Pole Day into a family celebration.

  • Derby winner Orb disappoints in the Preakness

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 8:32pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 8:32pm

    (AP) — Orb came up short in the Preakness, frustrating everyone who made the Kentucky Derby winner a 3-5 favorite — no one more than trainer Shug McGaughey.

  • Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 8:19pm

    (AP) — Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

  • As fireworks crackle, Beckham plays last home game

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:54pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:56pm

    (AP) — Never a stranger to the big stage, David Beckham was finally overwhelmed and reduced to tears as he went out in a burst of fireworks and cheers Saturday in his final home game for Paris Saint-Germain before retirement.

  • Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:53pm

    (AP) — It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.

  • Bradley keeps lead after 3 rounds at Nelson

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:52pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:53pm

    (AP) — Keegan Bradley still hasn't gotten things right on the 18th hole at the Byron Nelson Championship, even when finally going left.

  • Stevens rides Oxbow to 3rd Preakness win

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:50pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:52pm

    (AP) — Gary Stevens came out of retirement for the chance to get back in the winner's circle in a Triple Crown race.

  • Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:46pm

    (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime.

  • 'Catching Fire' dampened but not drowned at Cannes

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:29pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:35pm

    (AP) — Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for "Hunger Games: Catching Fire," but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film's lavish Cannes party.

  • Sharks fined $100,000 for GM's comments

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:24pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:25pm

    (AP) — The NHL fined the San Jose Sharks $100,000 on Saturday for general manager Doug Wilson's comments criticizing the league for forward Raffi Torres' suspension for the rest of the second round of the playoffs.

  • Pope leads pep rally at Vatican, meets with Merkel

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:24pm

    (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral conscience, hours after he held talks at the Vatican about the economic crisis with Germany's leader.

  • Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:23pm

    (AP) — The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident.

  • Oxbow upsets Orb in Preakness

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:16pm

    (AP) — Oxbow has won the Preakness, ruining Orb's bid to capture the Triple Crown.

  • Pacers' Hill cleared to play Game 6 vs. Knicks

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:12pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:15pm

    (AP) — Indiana Pacers guard George Hill has been cleared to play Saturday night against the New York Knicks in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

  • Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:12pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:15pm

    (AP) — It's all about the odds.

  • Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US

    Posted on May 18, 2013 at 6:48pm

    Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:32pm

    (AP) — Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.