The Wire
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As fireworks crackle, Beckham plays last home game
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:54pm
(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.
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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.
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Bradley keeps lead after 3 rounds at Nelson
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:52pm
(AP) — Keegan Bradley still hasn't gotten things right on the 18th hole at the Byron Nelson Championship, even when finally going left.
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Stevens rides Oxbow to 3rd Preakness win
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:50pm
(AP) — Gary Stevens came out of retirement for the chance to get back in the winner's circle in a Triple Crown race.
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No Triple Crown: Oxbow upsets Orb at Preakness
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:47pm
(AP) — Oxbow put D. Wayne Lukas in the record books again with an upset of Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving the Hall of Fame trainer his 14th win in a Triple Crown race.
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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.
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Ed Carpenter earns Indy 500 pole
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:45pm
Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:45pm(AP) — Ed Carpenter knew he was capable of another fast run, and it earned him the pole for the Indianapolis 500.
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Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:35pm
(AP) — Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won this year's Eurovision Song Contest Saturday with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
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'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.
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Chella Choi takes lead at Mobile Bay LPGA Classic
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:29pm
Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:30pm(AP) — Chella Choi shot her second straight 6-under 66 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Jessica Korda and Anna Nordqvist, the Swede who broke the course record with a 61 in the third round of the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:12pm
(AP) — It's all about the odds.
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Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 7:06pm
Updated on May 18, 2013 at 7:06pm(AP) — About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.
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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.
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FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 6:47pm
Updated on May 18, 2013 at 6:47pm(AP) — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.
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Chargers, Freeney agree to 2-year deal
Posted on May 18, 2013 at 6:46pm
Updated on May 18, 2013 at 6:47pm(AP) — The San Diego Chargers agreed Saturday to a two-year deal with aging star pass rusher Dwight Freeney that could be worth $13.35 million.















































































































