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Van Slyke's HR helps Dodgers top Cards; Berkman to DL
LOUIS — Changing his mind late on Tuesday morning, manager Mike Matheny pulled Lance Berkman out of the starting lineup in order to make room for both David Freese and Matt Carpenter to play. Following the Cardinals' 7-6 win over the Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Lance Berkman (12) is helped off the field [...]
Read MoreDeath of Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi 'doesn't close the book'
PROSECUTORS will step up their bid to bring the Lockerbie bomber's accomplices to justice after his death yesterday. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died of cancer aged 60, nearly three years after being freed from a Scottish prison and sent home to Libya to die The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan [...]
Read MoreChicago braces for final day of anti-NATO protests
More than a thousand protesters have flooded downtown Chicago on the second day of demonstrations against the upcoming NATO summit. A few skirmishes took place with police using batons on activists. high fives fellow protesters as he is released from custody at the 19th District Police station at Belmont and Western in Chicago, Illinois, Monday, [...]
Read MoreJordin Sparks, John Legend Pay Tribute to Whitney Houston At Billboard Music …
Jordin Sparks– gave an extraordinary and heartfelt performance of Houston's "I Will Always Love You." Bobbi Kristina Brown accepted the "Millenium Award" on behalf of her mother–Whitney Houston– at the 2012 Billboard There hasn't been a female or non-white winner since Jordin Sparks bested Blake Lewis in 2007. Lyndsey Parker, who writes Yahoo's “Reality Rocks'' [...]
Read MoreUS-Pakistan rift complicates NATO summit in Chicago
I should go away more often, Bonnie Raitt told the hooting-and-hollering crowd at the Chicago Theatre on Saturday evening before unspooling a multi-so. A group linked to the hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have taken down the Chicago police department website as authorities are looking into whether the City of Chicago website was also hit [...]
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