New York, May 17 : Sports star Tony Romo ended his romance with Jessica Simpson after growing tired of her meddling father, according to...

There cannot have been many greater characters in British sport than Brian Clough. So much so that a mythology has engulfed his memory. There have now been at least seven biographies of the...

Police are investigating the death of a man in a boating accident off the New South Wales south coast yesterday. The man was on a 23-foot motor cruiser that capsized after it was hit by a large wave...

Ed Shearer at 4 p.m.Please call 800-222-1790 if you have a news tip or question about the Georgia AP sports report. Sports editor Paul Newberry can be reached at 404-754-3562.Please send stories of...

VERY important . We quickly adjust to being sleep-deprived, and don’t notice that we aren’t functioning at a normal level, but lack of sleep really affects us. If you’re feeling...

The annual Home and Garden Tour of Historic Butchertown is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow, in conjunction with the Butchertown Art Fair.Stroll neighborhood streets, visit colorful gardens and tour...

Posted on: Saturday, 17 May 2008, 06:00 CDT STAFF at leisure centres in north Warwickshire have launched a Shape Up For Summer campaign. Throughout June and July, a special promotion includes...

"Who's there?""Orange.""Orange who?"Orange ya glad you're still reading this?"Or at least you will be -- I promise. For today we're going to sink our teeth into two types of orange plants: one with a...

SUNDAY 18 MAY Cricket: Glamorgan v Hampshire (BBC Sport website, 1200-1930 BST, BBC Radio Wales, MW only, 1630-1930 BST) Moto GP (BBC Two Wales, 1230-1430 BST) Amateur Boxing (BBC Two Wales,...

It's graduation season. So whether those special people in your life are headed off to college or getting ready to embark on their first career, we rounded up great gifts to celebrate this momentous...

In a season of voting blue or red across the fifty United States, many of America's most committed voters have cast their votes online for the Greenest solutions in home & lifestyle products...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 21:00 CDT By Rhoda Fukushima, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. May 16--The late St. Paul fitness maven Molly Lynn would have turned 90 today. Tonight, her friends from...

TODAY Auto rac. NASCAR Truck North Carolina Education Lottery 200 practice 8 a.m. SPEED NASCAR SC Sprint All-Star practice 11 a.m. SPEED NASCAR Truck North Carolina Education Lottery 200...

It must be assumed that the coming Olympics in China will replenish the stock of suddenly spare female sports heroes, though that is usually the business of the Winter Games and figure...

Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose...

Making moonshine has gone from a backwoods black art to a high-end hobby practiced by "whiskey geeks" with a taste for top-shelf hooch. Unlike their bootlegging predecessors, who cooked up big...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Major League Baseball Players Association sued Steiner Sports Marketing Inc on Friday accusing the memorabilia seller of trademark infringement and...

DEAR DR. BROTHERS: I am a 45-year-old woman who has worked all my life and I've made a decision to have a little work done. Specifically, I'm thinking of having some minor cosmetic surgery. For years...

Dear Readers: Guess what came into my office by mistake? A credit-card authorization form for winter lodging at a resort. It included a name, credit-card number, expiration date and even a security...

WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Kirkland Teen Union Building (KTUB), 348 Kirkland Ave. ADMISSION: $8 But lowering the volume in their iPod earbuds and wearing earplugs at shows may turn out to be...

FASHIONSarah's not Carrie: Sarah Jessica Parker says she's not a slave to fashion like her "Sex and the City" character, Carrie Bradshaw. "I am a mother, wife and working woman in the first place....

EDITOR'S NOTE: Adapted from a recent online discussion.Dear Carolyn: My parents are here to meet their first grandbaby. We just moved (to a house with no guest room), so things are chaotic, but we're...

For a baby shower your guest of honor will never forget, get friends together for an embellishing party. Set the tone with pretty handmade invitations that announce the theme. On each invitation,...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: After my husband died, his family cut me off completely, and they won't have anything to do with me. They said afterward that they should have gotten some of his estate, and that I...

DeGeneres announced their engagement Thursday during a taping of her daytime talk show, the same day the California Supreme Court overturned a state law banning gay marriage. "So I would like to say...

Talk about eclectic. At School One, an alternative private high school in Providence, R.I., that encourages students to take self-expression to the limit, the students are colorful – and so are...

BUCHAREST, Romania - A mother bear and her young cub stopped traffic and caused panic Thursday in central Romania after they roamed through gardens in search of food and finally climbed the stairs of...

Scripps Howard News Service's SPORTS sked for stories moving FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008. SHNS editors are available at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives visit our Web site at...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT PITTSBURGH, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- UPMC for Life, the Medicare product of UPMC Health Plan, is the Pennsylvania state sponsor for the 15th annual National...

TOKYO: Kawasaki Heavy Industries on Friday said it would start selling Kawasaki brand sports motor bikes in India through carmaker Bajaj Auto by the summer of 2009 to tap growing demand for luxury...

Charles Barkley owes a Las Vegas casino $400,000. Man, buffet cover charges sure do add up. The New York Knicks have sent Isiah Thomas on a scouting mission to Europe. No word yet on when they'll...

TIRANA, Albania - A cat chasing a mouse in Tirana's main power station caused a 72-hour blackout across parts of the Albanian capital, the electricity company said on Friday."A cat and a mouse ran...

May 16, 2008—A marble bust of an aging Julius Caesar—which may date back to 46 B.C.—has been found by divers in the Rhône River in...

Dear Tom and Ray: I have a 2001 Chrysler Town & Country with a 3.3-liter V-6 engine and 134,000 miles on it. I use it to deliver mail for the U.S. Postal Service. One day I refilled my antifreeze,...

Reporter Jane Lampman talks with Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. •Large majorities cite the equal importance of democracy and Islam to the quality of...

What do a billion Muslims really think? The Gallup Poll of the Muslim World is the most comprehensive study ever done of this group. Many key results counter conventional...

How do Muslims view women's rights? Many Muslims believe that women should have the right to vote and to hold any job outside the home that they qualify...

Former Patriots employee Matt Walsh met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for nearly three and a half hours on the Spygate scandal. Walsh's tapes of the meeting should be available shortly. ...

Hatton has targeted a Las Vegas rematch with Floyd MayweatherRicky Hatton says he is fully fit to face Juan Lazcano later this month after recovering from illness.Hatton, 29, faces the Mexican at the...

digg Call it cinema's stoned age. Films featuring characters using marijuana have mushroomed. "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay," the second movie to feature the titular pot-smoking...

Besides, a hockey astroturf will also be laid in the district at a cost of Rs.3.50 crore, said Deputy Commissioner T L Satyaprakash. He said the hostel would be equipped with state-of-the-art...

t-shirts bearing the slogan . Those shirts are all probably being worn ironically at this point, since internet memes age in dog years. One irony that’s probably lost on the makers of Zero...

ISTANBUL - A leading European sports organization will have a meeting in the Turkish province of Istanbul. The European Non-Governmental Sports Organization (ENGSO) would hold its 16th general...

ADANA - An association for the asthmatic patients in the southern city of Adana has launched a project to organize Turkey`s first sports games for the children with asthma, association head told the...

BEIJING – Chinese sports stars have opened their wallets to help earthquake victims in their country with Houston Rockets star Yao Ming pledging 2 million yuan ($286,100). 'I plan to do...

Posted: 6:15 AM- Glen Canyon National Recreation Area announced Thursday a further expansion of a program to prevent zebra or quagga mussels from becoming established at Lake Powell. Lake Powell...

Louisville Urban League's annual Diversity Soiree goes Latin this year, featuring performances by dance troupes Acoiris Latino and Flamenco Talk, the Salsa Rhythms Band — plus the jazz band...

But its days as a big event on TV may be numbered since it slipped below the 10 million mark for the first time last year, attracting just a little over 9 million.That's down nearly 3 million from...

Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus' "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and a new sitcom, "Project Gary," that stars Jay Mohr as a recently divorced painter and Paula Marshall as his ex-wife, will be...

The weather also played havoc with the state softball tournament.But both baseball and softball should be able to get back on track today."That's part of it," LAMP coach Rocky Smith said. "You have...