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Legally blind vaulter makes 3 heights, no medal
A legally blind 15-year-old pole vaulter cleared three heights at the Texas state championship but failed to win a medal. Charlotte Brown of rural ...
Garcia to face Lopez for WBO title in Dallas
Mikey Garcia will put his minor WBO featherweight title on the line against Juan Manuel Lopez on June 15 in Dallas. The bout at American Airlines ...
App lets amputees program their own bionic hands
Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Now, he's got an app instead.
Armstrong case could hinge on USPS benefit
Lance Armstrong is facing the federal government in a legal fight with tens of millions of dollars at stake, and a loss could bankrupt the cyclist who ...
French-born music director joins Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera says the French-born conductor Emmanuel Villaume has been appointed its new music director. The announcement was made Tuesday.
Sweden's Nina Stemme ignites Houston's 'Tristan'
Thunderbolts and torrential rains greeted the audience arriving for Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at the Wortham Theater Center on Saturday night.
Czechs to send funds to blast-hit Texas town
The Czech Republic plans to donate 4 million koruna (some $200,000) to help the Texas town of West recover from a devastating fertilizer plant ...
Justice says Armstrong was 'unjustly enriched'
The Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S.
LeMond: Get drug testing out of UCI
Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond says he has "no vendetta" against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and hopes professional cycling can ...
James scores 27 as Heat top Bucks in Game 1
LeBron James scored 27 points, finishing two assists shy of a triple-double, as the defending champion Heat picked up where they left off in the NBA ...
Official toll unknown, but residents know lost
The neighborhood surrounding a Texas fertilizer plant that erupted in a thunderous explosion is gone, and the residents here know they've lost more ...
Actor who played choked Death Star commander dies
Character actor Richard LeParmentier, who as a young Death Star commander learned the hard way that Darth Vader brooks no disrespect, died Tuesday.
Rare Russian vases sell for $2.7M in private sale
Randy Buttram never gave much thought to the two 4½-foot tall ornate vases that graced the elegant main entrance of his grandparents' Oklahoma City ...
Mom frantic as she tries to revive Russian adoptee
The mother of a dying 3-year-old adopted Russian boy was frantic and crying as she tried to revive her son while emergency personnel raced to her ...
McIlroy uses Texas Open to get 'sharp' for Augusta
Rory McIlroy's last-minute, last-ditch effort to right his game in time for the Masters next week has taken a trip to a usually out-of-the-way spot ...
McIlroy still sees the big picture
When the scrutiny becomes suffocating, it's a good time for Rory McIlroy to get as far away as he can. So he went to a practice range on a public ...
Autopsy: Dead Russian adoptee bruised all over
A 3-year-old adopted by a West Texas couple had more than 30 bruises and other marks on his body as well as signs that he was routinely injured by ...
Rebels pick US citizen as Syrian prime minister
The man chosen to head the Syrian opposition's new interim government is a Syrian-born American citizen who has spent decades in the United States ...
Authorities: No charges in Russian boy's death
Prosecutors said Monday that they won't charge a Texas couple in the death of a 3-year-old adopted boy from Russia, a case that has become the latest ...
Correction: Vatican-Pope story
In a story March 5 about American cardinals exerting a surprising amount of control over the message coming out of Vatican City ahead of the papal ...
Underworld saint becoming more popular in US
A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show ...
CNBC tries reality TV after business hours
Buzz-worthy reality shows are often a ticket to riches for cable networks, even when the shows seem to have little to do with the network's reason for ...
US seizes 2,200 pieces of artwork in US
A federal prosecutor in New Jersey says the government has seized a massive trove of works of art that were used to launder money raised through fraud
Autopsy: Russian adoptee's Texas death an accident
The death of a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy has been ruled an accident by West Texas authorities, but officials said Friday they are still ...
Lawyer: US couple did not kill adopted Russian boy
The adoptive parents of a Russian boy who died last month in West Texas are not responsible for the 3-year-old's death, their attorney said Wednesday.