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Archive for February, 2012

UNTIL WEDNESDAY night, St. John’s looked like the team that no one would want to play in the Big East conference tournament.

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AP – The teenager suspected in an Ohio school shooting struggled with a broken family and did poorly in school, then appeared to turn himself around once he was taken in by grandparents and began to attend an alternative school, longtime neighbors and friends said Wednesday

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Wings coach Billy Turnage saw his team rally back from deficits of 13-4 at the end of the first quarter and 24-17 at the half. No. 4 Wings, which hadn’t played since getting upset in the Bronx Borough title game by JFK on Feb. 11, had already beaten its Bronx ‘AA’ rival Eagle Academy twice in the regular season.

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AP – North Korea raised hopes Wednesday for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment at a major facility and refrain from missile and nuclear tests in exchange for a mountain of critically needed U.S. food aid.

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The number of American mosques has increased dramatically in the last decade despite post 9/11 protests aimed at Muslim houses of worship, according to a new study.

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AP – A pre-dawn twister flattened entire blocks of homes in a small Illinois town Wednesday as violent storms ravaged the Midwest and South, killing at least 12 people in three states.

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Not only did Jeremy Lin’s fairy tale erase public cynicism and bitterness from five months of labor strife, the Harvard-educated point guard also saved the Knicks’ season, his job and perhaps Mike D’Antoni’s.

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