JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Coach Marvin Lewis stayed up all night, watching and re-watching video of his Bengals’ latest prime time meltdown. It didn’t look any better the second time. Or the third time. And there’s no ready answers for it, either. The Bengals were once again the Wile E. Coyote…
LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) — A long-delayed preliminary hearing for former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper on Los Angeles County charges that he drugged and raped two women he met at a West Hollywood nightclub has been pushed back to Dec. 5. Sharper, who has been jailed since February, appeared briefly…
CESAR GARCIA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Hundreds of Indians in Colombia armed with little more than wooden staffs have corralled several Marxist guerrillas and intend to bring them to justice for the killing of two tribe members. The fate of the seven rebels is to be decided Sunday at an assembly of Nasa…
LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government on Thursday announced its first bitcoin securities fraud case, accusing a Texas man of engineering a Ponzi scheme by getting people to turn over their bitcoins in return for promises of high interest rates and the ability to recoup their investment at any time….
RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — That penetrating Utah defense is reminiscent of Stanford’s. Devontae Booker, the Utes’ hard-charging tailback, looks a lot like former Arizona All-America Ka’Deem Carey. Over the past three seasons, the only teams to beat Oregon are Stanford and Arizona — and No. 20 Utah…
NEW YORK (AP) — Miami third baseman Casey McGehee and Seattle pitcher Chris Young have been selected as baseball’s comeback players of the year. McGehee, who turned 32 last month, hit .287 with 29 doubles, four home runs, 76 RBIs to win the NL honor following a season with the Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s…
MARK KENNEDY AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Alda jumped aboard after getting past his doubts about the title. Candice Bergen joined him when she found out she’d be able to keep the script handy. Both actors will take over Sunday as the star-crossed lovers in the Broadway production of A.R. Gurney’s play…
Changes are coming to the plaza surrounding the Ballston Metro station. Arlington County is in the process of designing improvements to the plaza and gathering public input. The improvements are intended to reduce bus congestion, enhance pedestrian safety, prepare for future population growth and make the plaza more functional and aesthetically attractive. Metrorail ridership is…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a teenage boy was so distraught after accidently killing his friend while playing with a stolen gun that he turned the weapon on himself at a suburban Salt Lake City home last year. South Jordan police released the new details Friday after last November’s deaths of 15-year-old Dayton…
JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A lawsuit blames a restaurant’s bad meatloaf for the deaths of a former West Virginia state lawmaker and her husband. Former Delegate Virginia Starcher’s family filed the lawsuit last month against New Albany, Ohio-based Bob Evans Farms in Jackson County Circuit Court. Bob Evans spokeswoman Hinda Mitchell…
