MEMPHIS, Tennessee – An Arkansas man is suing Kobe Bryant, claiming the Los Angeles Lakers star deliberately elbowed him during a Memphis Grizzlies‘ game last year. For full sports coverage, click here to visit FOXSports.com Bill Geeslin sat in the stands when the Lakers played in Memphis last Nov. 14. …
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The following is a partial transcript from the Nov. 5, 2006, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: With the remaining campaign time now measured in hours, we want to look at two key Senate races — first of all, Missouri, where state …
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LONDON – The Queen Elizabeth 2 is docked safely in Southampton harbor after briefly running aground just outside the British port. A Cunard spokesman says the venerable ocean liner was heading into her home port on Tuesday around 5:30 GMT when the ship hit a sand bank. Two tugboats and …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – The U.N., African Union and Arab nations struggled to respond Thursday to a surge of pirate attacks, authorizing sanctions and calling for international peacekeepers to address the chaos in Somalia that has spawned an upsurge in sea banditry. The economic reverberations of the attacks widened as the …
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ST. LOUIS – Banking on the success of a Kansas City program, a St. Louis crime-fighting group hopes to nab wanted felons with the help of billboards in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. St. Louis Regional CrimeStoppers, which covers 20 counties in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois, said Monday it …
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LONDON – A rare blue diamond handed down through generations of German royalty sold for a record-breaking $24.3 million at auction Wednesday in London, Christie’s said. The Wittelsbach Diamond, a 35.56 carat cushion-shaped gem, has often had its color and clarity compared to the famed Hope Diamond, now on display …
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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton called a news conference Thursday to clarify his comment that the paparazzi are less trouble since “Lindsay Lohan has gone gay.” When asked about the Lohan remark — which followed months of tabloid speculation that Lohan and Samantha Ronson, a DJ, …
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Twenty years ago in Seoul, Valeri Liukin won Olympic gymnastics gold for the Soviet Union. On Friday, his daughter Nastia repeated the feat — but for Team USA. Nastia Liukin, who helped the Americans win a silver medal in the team competition earlier this week, took to the floor in …
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WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy. She said the shift in policy is a signal the administration is …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to suspend action for a year on an indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Darfur genocide charges, Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister said Monday. The African Union will make the request to allow progress in negotiations to …
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