| Bears DL Gaines Adams dies at 26 (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 11:13 AM PST  Gaines Adams, an All-American defensive end at Clemson whose career never blossomed in the NFL with Chicago and Tampa Bay, died Sunday after going into cardiac arrest. He was 26. He died at Self Regional Hospital after going into cardiac arrest about an hour before at his family's home in Greenwood, said Marcia Kelley-Clark, chief deputy coroner for Greenwood County.
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| Elderly and abandoned, 85 Haitians await death (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 08:45 AM PST  AP - The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. The elderly man lies motionless as rats pick at his overflowing diaper.
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| Golden Globes Red Carpet Arrivals Posted: 17 Jan 2010 06:04 PM PST ![]() Cameron Diaz arrives at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 17, 2010, in Beverly Hills, California. Sign in to post a comment.
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| Michael C. Hall Wins for 'Dexter' after Cancer Diagnosis Posted: 17 Jan 2010 05:59 PM PST  The actor won his first Golden Globe, just days after announcing he's undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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| 'Avatar' passes 'Star Wars' with $491.8M in US (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:29 PM PST ![]() LOS ANGELES - James Cameron 's "Avatar" had a $41.3 million weekend to shoot past " Star Wars " as the No. 3 movie on the all-time domestic box office charts. Next stop, " The Dark Knight ." No. 1 for the fifth-straight weekend, Cameron's sci-fi saga raised its domestic total to $491.8 million ...
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| Favre, Vikings advance with 34-3 win over Cowboys Posted: 17 Jan 2010 01:21 PM PST ![]() "This is what I came back for." For the adrenaline rush. For the in-your-face touchdown. For another shot at the Super Bowl. Brett Favre wanted all of it, and now he's got it. Four -- count 'em, four -- touchdown passes from Minnesota's 40-year-old quarterback sent the Vikings to the NFC championship game with a determined 34-3 rout of the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
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| Video: Vikings throw late TD in blowout, Brooking goes after Favre (Yahoo! Sports) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 03:51 PM PST ![]() Did the Minnesota Vikings run up the score on the Dallas Cowboys in Sunday's NFC divisional playoff?
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| Abortion Wars Overtake Mass. Race: Coakley Accused Of Being Threat To Babies Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:43 PM PST  A new flier being distributed in the final days of the Massachusetts Senate race portrays Attorney General Martha Coakley as a threat to unborn children and thrusts the issue of abortion even deeper into the electoral fire. Paid for by Mass Citizens for Life Political Action Committee, the piece urges voters to "Save The Babies!" and "Vote Scott Brown" on January 19. Coakley, the anti-abortion group alleges, "supports using your tax money to pay for abortions," "supports minor girls getting abortions without their parents knowing," and "supports Partial Birth Abortion." coakleyabortion - A
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| Obama stumps for Coakley; Scott Brown holds counter-rally Posted: 17 Jan 2010 11:38 AM PST ![]() By Matt Viser, Eric Moskowitz, and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff President Barack Obama urged Massachusetts voters at a Boston rally today to cast their ballots for Democrat Martha Coakley, saying she would fight for working people while her opponent,...
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| Jewish leader confronts pope on Holocaust "silence" (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:37 AM PST  Reuters - An Italian Jewish leader told Pope Benedict Sunday that his wartime predecessor Pius XII should have spoken out more forcefully against the Holocaust to show solidarity with Jews being led to the "ovens of Auschwitz."
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| Dems look at bypassing Senate health care vote (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:43 PM PST  AP - A panicky White House and Democratic allies scrambled Sunday for a plan to salvage their hard-fought health care package in case a Republican wins Tuesday's Senate race in Massachusetts, which would enable the GOP to block further Senate action.
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| Supreme Court to rule on famed death penalty case (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 06:19 AM PST  Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court is expected on Tuesday to issue its latest decision on the fate of Mumia Abu-Jamal, arguably America's most famous death-row inmate, convicted of slaying a Philadelphia policeman, a crime he denies committing.
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| Filipino WWII veterans still waiting for payments (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:30 PM PST  AP - Gaudencio Sotio injured his left leg fighting to expel the Japanese military from the Philippines during World War II. Though Filipino, he was fighting under the command of the United States, which had colonized his homeland in the early 1900s.
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| Medicaid provision for Nebraska raises ire Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:52 PM PST ![]() It was a single paragraph, added at the last minute on Page 2,129 of the Senate's mammoth health-care bill: a promise that the federal government would pay forever for extra poor people to join Medicaid in Nebraska. And it triggered a swift, partisan backlash.
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| Sanchez, Greene lead Jets to shocker over Chargers Posted: 17 Jan 2010 05:13 PM PST ![]() Maybe Rex Ryan already knows the score of the AFC championship game, too. The rookie coach who, at one point, didn't know his Jets were still in playoff contention, then declared them Super Bowl favorites, will need some more bold predictions. His Jets are still playing. Rookies Mark Sanchez and Shonn Greene led New York to a stunning 17-14 upset of San Diego in the divisional playoffs Sunday,...
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