COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel says it’s doubtful that starting tailback Chris “Beanie” Wells will play Saturday night against top-ranked
USC.
Tressel said today there was lingering soreness for Wells in his right foot after he worked out the night before.
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Washington Mutual says it will take another multibillion-dollar write-down for bad bets on mortgage securities but insists it has adequate capital to fund its operations amid concern about the thrift’s financial stability.
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WASHINGTON – Four Democratic senators urged the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Thursday to temporarily freeze foreclosures on loans they hold.
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Fewer than 100 civilians died in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia during last month’s conflict, human rights activists said Thursday, a far smaller number than Russian and South Ossetian officials have claimed.
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PISCATAWAY,
N.J. –
T.J. Yates threw three touchdown passes and the Tar Heels won for the first time outside North Carolina since 2002, beating error-prone Rutgers, 44-12, in a nationally televised game that pitted North Carolina Coach Butch Davis against his former pupil, Greg Schiano.
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WASHINGTON – New applications for unemployment benefits fell less than expected last week, the
U.S. government said today, as the struggling economy continues to take a toll on workers.
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When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the city billed sexual assault victims and their insurance companies for the cost of rape kits and forensic examinations.
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WASHINGTON – Federal regulators said Thursday they could not determine after a lengthy review how much speculators have influenced commodity prices, especially the run-up earlier this year in oil prices.
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Previously unseen footage emerged Thursday showing Republican presidential candidate John McCain as a prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the
U.S. military.
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