Profile of The Associated Press ~ staff The News

All articles of The Associated Press ~ staff The News

• Toyota to recall about 50,000 Sequoia SUVs; about...
  Washington - Toyota Motor Corp. announced a recall today of 50,000 Sequoia sport utility vehicles in the United States and Canada to fix an ...
• Oil leaking from sunken rig spreads
  New Orleans - Crews raced to protect the Gulf of Mexico coastline Monday as a remote sub tried to shut off an underwater oil well that's gushing ...
• Stern reiterates coaches should be careful when...
  Miami - A day later, NBA commissioner David Stern wasn't backing down: Coaches, he said, need to "comply with the rules." This part was ...
• All-star cast breathes new life into 'Death at a...
  The original "Death at a Funeral" only came out about three years ago, so it may seem a bit soon to resurrect it. But director Neil LaBute and an ...
• Participants no smarter after playing games to...
  People playing computer games to train their brains might as well be playing Super Mario, new research suggests. In a six-week study, experts ...
• Two Canadian men to be charged in Southern...
  Police in California say two Canadians will be charged after they buried a U.S. flag flown to honour 9/11 victims and replaced it with a Canadian ...
• Lopez radiant as always
  "The Back-up Plan" gets sitcommy early and often, and just for good measure, throws in old TV favourites Tom Bosley and Linda Lavin in brief ...
• Senior SEC staff watched porn on computers as...
  WASHINGTON - Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers ...
• Medical groups adopt policy to curb industry sway...
  No more letting industry help pay for developing medical guidelines. Restrictions on consulting deals. And no more pens with drug company names ...
• At least 11 missing as oil rig explodes off...
  New Orleans - An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at ...
• Coast Guard searching for at least 11 workers after...
  At least 11 people were missing and seven injured after an explosion and fire at an oil drilling platform off the coast of Louisiana, the Coast ...
• Flights land in U.K. as airports reopen
  LONDON - Europe's busiest airport reopened Tuesday as air traffic across the continent lurched back to life. But the gridlock created by ...
• Some European countries resume air travel in zones...
  LONDON - After five days in which nature brought the jet age to a halt, European officials agreed Monday to let air traffic resume on a limited ...
• European Union says half of airspace may be free of...
  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - European air traffic could return to about 50 per cent of its normal levels today if weather forecasts confirm that ...
• Hilarious 'Kick-Ass' does just that
  The filmmakers behind Hollywood's latest superhero flick have declared war on family values. "Kick-Ass" is bad news for lovers of all that is ...
• Nadal beats Ferrero easily to reach Monte Carlo...
  MONACO - Rafael Nadal beat Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-4, 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters on Friday to extend his winning run at ...
• Champions League exit fuelling Chelsea's charge to...
  London - Michael Ballack believes that Chelsea's elimination from the Champions League triggered a late season domestic charge which could end ...
• Duchovny, Moore go into sales with clever satire in...
  "The Joneses" has a very clever concept: A marketing company dispatches a family of insanely appealing people, led by heads of household David ...
• Time to rip up the form sheets
  One game, and the Pittsburgh Penguins already know this. Nothing comes easy for a defending Stanley Cup champion, not even a playoff series ...
• Miller removes rear-view mirror
  Buffalo - How quickly Ryan Miller forgets. Having led Buffalo back to the playoffs for the first time in three years, the Sabres goaltender ...
• 'After.life' a painful trip to purgatory
  It would be wrong to say "After.life" is dead on arrival. In fairness, Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson's horror thriller takes a few minutes to ...
• Carell and Fey go out on the town for a bad 'Date...
  Steve Carell and Tina Fey's night out is not so much a bad date as a sad date. These are two of the funniest people ever on television, yet ...
• Polish presidents body returns to Warsaw from Russia
  The body of President Lech Kaczynski has returned to Poland. His twin brother met the plane and will accompany the body to the presidential ...
• 'Clash of the Titans' updates '80s camp with drab...
  Who wants to be a god, anyway? That's the principle twist inserted into the new "Clash of the Titans," a remake of the sometimes fondly recalled, ...
• Long ball obession
  NEW YORK - Hank Aaron watches games these days and is perplexed as batter after batter tries to jack pitches out of the ballpark, obsessed with ...
• Star turns and a star debut
  Albert Pujols launched two home runs, Roy Halladay looked every bit an ace and Barack Obama pulled out a White Sox hat to make his presidential ...
• Duke ends Butler's amazing run
  INDIANAPOLIS - Duke won its fourth national championship Monday night, forcing Butler's Gordon Hayward to miss with four seconds left to hold off ...
• Post-quake: Chiles tourism industry hit hard by...
  Outside Santiago's Fine Arts Museum is a fallen cornice broken into chunks and strewn across marble steps. But inside, sculpture stands firmly ...
• Author returns to screen with another tearjerker,...
  SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The romantic melodrama machine that is Nicholas Sparks keeps running at full capacity. The prolific author, whose weepy ...
• Advocates hope calorie labelling law will coax...
  Will a national requirement for chain restaurants to post calorie counts sound the death knell for bacon cheeseburgers and double chocolate ...