The condition of a Virginia teacher left seriously injured when she was shot by a six-year-old pupil has shown signs of improvement, authorities say.
Abby Zwerner suffered life-threatening injuries after she was shot with a handgun at Richneck (...)
Isle of Wight Council has rejected UK Oil and Gas Investments proposal to drill for oil on the island.
The council voted unanimously to refuse UKOG's application. The oil company had applied to drill two exploratory boreholes near the village of (...)
Jay Haas birdied the first hole of a playoff with Bart Bryant Sunday to become the second-oldest winner in PGA Tour Champions history.
At 62 years, 10 months, 7 days, Haas trails only Mike Fetchick, the 1985 Hilton Head Seniors Invitational winner (...)
John Daly birdied the final five holes Friday in the Toshiba Classic, leaving him three strokes behind fellow senior newcomer Billy Mayfair and 62-year-old Jay Haas.
Making his 14th PGA Tour Champions start since turning 50 in April, the (...)
Ivo Karlovic charged the net, put his backhand shot over and knew he finally won the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
The second-seeded Karlovic, from Croatia, beat third-seeded Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (12) Sunday in the (...)
Marat Safin enjoyed life as a tennis player, calling it like living in a rock n' roll band.
That fun-filled journey brought him to the pinnacle of his sport — induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Safin and Justine Henin were (...)
Eighth-seeded Donald Young knew what to expect from a player he's often practiced against.
That made it easier pulling off the upset over top-seeded Steve Johnson.
Young beat fellow American Johnson in the quarterfinals of the Hall of Fame Tennis (...)
Fourth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus beat seventh-seeded Dudi Sela of Israel 6-2, 7-5 Thursday to advance to the semifinals in the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
Third-seeded Gilles Muller of Luxembourg and sixth-seeded Adrian Mannarino of (...)
Top-seeded Steve Johnson advanced to the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships quarterfinals Wednesday, beating Japan's Yuichi Sugita, 6-1, 6-4.
Coming off a career-best finish in a Grand Slam, the 26-year-old Johnson needed just 20 minutes to win the (...)
Sixth-seeded Adrian Mannarino of France rallied past James Duckworth of Australia 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) to advance to the second round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships Tuesday.
The 28-year-old Mannarino was the only seeded player in (...)
Defending champion Rajeev Ram beat fellow American Mackenzie McDonald, 6-2, 6-3, in the opening round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships here Monday.
Ram, a two-time winner on Newport's grass courts — also in 2009 when he won his only other (...)
Larisa Mikhaylova's business model is simple: In exchange for a cut of their prizes, she enters Kenyan runners into far-flung US road races that are small enough to be winnable but still large enough to offer modest cash rewards to top (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1436, Oct 6, 2015, SPA -- The owner of a reptile store is recovering after police officers pried off a 20-foot (6-meter) python that was crushing the man.
Kentucky police tell local news outlets that owner Terry Wilkens was feeding the (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1435, Sep 5, 2014, SPA -- NATO ended what had been billed by its outgoing chief as "one of the most important summits" in the 65-year
history of the transatlantic alliance Friday with an "anti-Russian"
rapid response force and a (...)
The latest Virginia class submarine for the U.S. Navy has completed alpha sea trails, boat's first round of at-sea tests and evaluations, according to UPI.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, who's Newport News Shipbuilding division is constructing the (...)
Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee survived a poor start Sunday to win the Wales Open by 1 stroke with a final round 1-over 72 in wet conditions.
The 42-year-old Jaidee, who was the overnight leader, holed four birdies on the back nine at Celtic Manor (...)
Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand took a one-stroke lead at the Wales Open after shooting a 4-under par 67 in the third round at Celtic Manor Saturday.
Tied for second were Joost Luiten of the Netherlands and overnight leader Ross Fisher of (...)
stroke lead at the Wales Open Friday after shooting a 5-under par 66 in the second round at Celtic Manor.
Overnight leader Lee Slattery of England could only manage a level par round of 72 to remain at 4 under on 138 in second.
Fabrizio Zanotti of (...)
US top seed John Isner and Belgian sixth seed Olivier Rochus advanced to the final of the $500,000 ATP Hall of Fame Championships with straight-set semifinal victories Saturday.
Isner, famous for winning the longest match in tennis history over (...)
US top seed John Isner fired 21 aces in advancing to the ATP Hall of Fame Championships semifinals with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 victory over fifth-seeded countryman Alex Bogomolov Thursday.
Wild-card entrant Isner lost his first matches in 2007 and 2008 (...)
US captain Corey Pavin called on one of his strongest teams to lead off his team's defense of the Ryder Cup.
Tiger Woods? He'll be going third.
Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, famous for their big-money games they play during practice rounds, (...)
The Ryder Cup is getting personal for Tiger Woods.
Interrupting an otherwise dull press conference Tuesday, Woods fired back at a comment Rory McIlroy made six weeks ago that “I would love to face” the world's No. 1 player in the Ryder Cup unless (...)
A young woman working at the Celtic Manor this week did a double take when she saw Corey Pavin getting into a golf cart. She didn't realize he was the US captain. What got her attention was what he was holding.
“Is that the Ryder Cup trophy?” she (...)
Entering the frenzied bear pit of the Ryder Cup ought to be the last thing Tiger Woods feels like doing right now after the traumas of the past 10 months.
Public humiliation, private torment, a lengthy self-imposed exile and a disappointing (...)
Mardy Fish captured the Hall of Fame Championships Sunday, rallying for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory over fourth-seeded Olivier Rochus of Belgium.
Fish overcame his frustration at a close line call at the end of the first set to win his fourth career (...)