Archive for December, 2011

New Year’s worry: Will arsonist strike LA again? (AP)

A Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter extinguishes multiple cars on fire in a carport in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. For the third night in a row, a rash of arson fires has sent firefighters scrambling to extinguish car fires in various neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Most of the fires on this night occurred in the San Fernando Valley. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP – On what would already be one of their busiest nights of the year, police and firefighters Saturday will be patrolling neighborhoods, taking hotline phone calls and scrambling to identify who was behind the arson fires that have spooked the Hollywood area for two straight nights and were making it an uneasy New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles.


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A counterpunch against PEDs in boxing, MMA

After she was appointed to the Nevada State Athletic Commission as the professional ringside physician in 1994, Margaret Goodman worked over 500 boxing and mixed martial arts bouts for more than a decade.

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Romney in position of strength in Iowa (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, greets some of the kitchen help during a campaign stop at Old Salt Restaurant in Hampton, N.H., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)AP – Mitt Romney is the clear Republican front-runner in Iowa in the final days before the first voting in the 2012 presidential election. But that’s where the clarity ends in this unpredictable nomination race.


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Jets at loss to explain impotent offense

Nobody has had a definitive answer for the Jets’ offensive woes for the better part of four months. Sometimes the stats lie. Sometimes they give you a sobering dose of reality.

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Afghan president welcomes US remarks on Taliban (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in New York. The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. and Afghan officials said.   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday welcomed remarks from the Obama administration that the Taliban were not necessarily America’s enemies.


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Cowboys Blue over Giant loss in Week 14

Laurent Robinson does not like to remember. None of the Dallas Cowboys do. If Robinson had his way, the Cowboys wideout would never speak of his team’s epic Week 14 collapse against the Giants.

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Obama signs defense bill despite ‘reservations’ (AP)

AP – President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

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