Prosecutors seek to reinstate Knox conviction
MILAN (AP) — Italian prosecutors appealed Tuesday to Italy’s highest criminal court against the overturning of the murder convictions of American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend in the brutal slaying of a British student. Perugia prosecutors filed the 111-page…
Brazil editor killed in rough border town
SAO PAULO (AP) — The editor-in-chief of a newspaper that crusaded against corruption in Brazil’s rough border region with Paraguay was shot dead, police said Monday, just days after another slain journalist’s body was found in a different state. Paulo…
Hamilton says he’s in a “good place”
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton says he is “in a good place” mentally after a winter spent analysing his mistakes from 2011. The Englishman is aiming to create an environment in which he can perform more consistently than last year. “I feel…
Whitney Houston was found underwater in tub
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston’s life was a doleful cover of other addiction-riddled pop stars who put their talent and themselves at risk. Her death has created more heartrending echoes of tragedies past: The painstaking investigation that follows the…
Duchess Kate in Valentine’s Day visit to Liverpool
LONDON (AP) — The former Kate Middleton is spending her first Valentine’s Day as a married woman nearly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) away from her husband. The Duchess of Cambridge is carrying out a solo visit to the English port…
At least your money can live like a millionaire’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don’t. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around…
Man to face Alabama trial in wife’s diving death
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama. An Alabama man who already…
Mickelson crushes Tiger and wins Pebble Beach
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — He knew his game was getting close, and he broke through with flair Sunday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. That turned out to be Phil Mickelson, not Tiger Woods. In a big, big way….
Deadly voyage seemed doomed from start
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Looking back, survivors say, the voyage seemed doomed from the start: The weather was bad and the clearly overloaded boat seemed barely seaworthy as it set out in the inky pre-dawn darkness in what…
Miami’s Big three leads Heat to 107-87 rout of Hawks
ATLANTA (AP) — LeBron James scored 23 points, Dwyane Wade added 21 and the Miami Heat blew out the Atlanta Hawks 107-87 on Sunday night after racing to a 22-point lead at halftime. The Heat made a big statement in…
