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• Bullies bounce back
  PHILADELPHIA - Twice, the Philadelphia Flyers needed video replay to decide if a goal counted. One did, one didn't. Claude Giroux didn't need ...
• BP stock tumbles as feds announce oil-spill probes
  New Orleans - BP's stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it Tuesday as the federal government announced criminal and civil ...
• Flyers grounded in Windy City
  CHICAGO - Marian Hossa and Ben Eager scored 28 seconds apart late in the second period and Antti Niemi had 32 saves as the Chicago Blackhawks ...
• Meanwhile, Flyers taking a, 'What? Me worry?' attitude
  Chicago - Laughs and lighthearted groans came from a small group of Philadelphia Flyers players on Sunday, while they youthfully warmed up for ...
• Toys R Us plans to go public again
  NEW YORK - Toys R Us Inc. said Friday that it plans to go public again by raising as much as $800 million in an initial public offering, a bid to ...
• Criminology student in court on murders of 3...
  A doctoral student researching murder was accused of being a killer himself Friday in Britain. Stephen Griffiths appeared in court on charges of ...
• BP waiting to see if mud plugs work
  Robert, La. - BP won't know until Sunday if pumping heavy mud into a blown-out well on the seafloor is successful in stopping the massive Gulf of ...
• Sarah Jessica Parker, cast talk camels, couture in...
  NEW YORK - Trekking through the sand dunes of the Sahara atop a camel wearing vintage Dior and ultrahigh stilettos was just another day on set ...
• Trans-Alaska pipeline operator restarts pipeline...
  The operator of the trans-Alaska pipeline system said late Friday it has restarted the 800-mile (1,300-kilometre) line idled after a contained ...
• 'Holy Rollers' can't get past rise-and-fall formula
  "Holy Rollers" depicts a world the majority of us have never visited - the insular existence of Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews - only to wind up ...
• Sharapova, Henin to meet in next round
  Paris - So much has transpired in the nearly 2 1/2 years since Maria Sharapova and Justine Henin last played each other. Sharapova needed right ...
• Captains seeking a rare double
  Chicago - Jonathan Toews and Mike Richards skated on the same line, sported the same jersey and shared a purpose during Canada's pressure-filled ...
• BP: Top kill going as planned
  Covington, La. - BP started pumping heavy mud into a leaking Gulf of Mexico well Wednesday and said everything was going as planned in the ...
• Flyers can't help wondering if this is their year
  VOORHEES, N.J. - Jeff Carter walks by a framed photo of the Philadelphia Flyers' 1975 championship parade every day before practice. It's a ...
• A guide through tough times
  Long before adopting the dreadlocks, "American Idol" finalist Crystal Bowersox discovered what she needed to make sense of the world. She calls ...
• North Korea must face consequences for sinking South...
  TOKYO - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday evidence was "overwhelming" that North Korea sank a South Korean warship and ...
• Flyers motivated to bounce back
  MONTREAL - Losing to the Montreal Canadiens was bad enough for Philadelphia Flyers agitator Daniel Carcillo. Seeing Michael Cammalleri stick out ...
• Blackhawks win seventh straight on the road, take...
  San Jose, Calif. - Dustin Byfuglien and Jonathan Toews scored on deflections 90 seconds apart in the second period and the Chicago Blackhawks ...
• BP captures some Gulf oil
  Robert, La. - With BP finally gaining some control over the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are increasingly worried ...
• Metal legend dead at 67
  Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy ...
• Romance gone bad?
  Abu Dhai, United Arab Emirates - In 2008, the original "Sex and the City" film was not shown in the United Arab Emirates, where censors routinely ...
• New York mayor says it would be great if Lebron came...
  New York - Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that if LeBron James calls to ask what it's like to live in New York City, he will give the Cleveland ...
• McNabb apologizes to Philly for not winning Super Bowl
  Philadelphia - Donovan McNabb apologized to the fans of Philadelphia for not winning a Super Bowl title for them. "I look back - the things that ...
• B's seem calm going into Game 7
  WILMINGTON, Mass. - Now the Boston Bruins know how the Philadelphia Flyers felt the past week. Win or put away the skates for the season. Like ...
• Crowe pals Durand, Grimes and Doyle form band of...
  CANNES, France - Some really merry men have Russell Crowe's back in "Robin Hood." The movie from director Ridley Scott casts Russell Crowe's ...
• Giant killers
  Pittsburgh - First the Capitals, now the Penguins. The Canadiens, the team with the worst regular-season record in the playoffs, keep sending ...
• Flyers top Bruins to force improbable Game 7
  Philadelphia - The Flyers' far-fetched comeback is nearly complete. Michael Leighton stopped 29 shots in his first start in nearly two months to ...
• BP sprays more chemicals into Gulf
  A remote-controlled submarine shot a chemical dispersant into the maw of a massive undersea oil leak Monday, further evidence that authorities ...
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill grows to at least 3.5M gallons
  A growing collection of crippled equipment littered the ocean floor Sunday near a ruptured oil well gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the ...
• Bruins hope Stuart can do what Savard did
  WILMINGTON, Mass - Boston Bruins forward Marc Savard returned after missing seven weeks with a concussion and scored in overtime to win a playoff ...