Daytona 500 scheduled to start later Monday

NASCAR’s biggest event of the year is now scheduled to get under way Monday at 4 p.m. PST, a day after the much-anticipated season-opening stock car race was postponed by rain for the first time in its 54-year history.

Actress Sean Young arrested at post-Oscars party

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say actress Sean Young was placed under citizen’s arrest after a fight at the official post-Oscars party.

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Humble Durant calls MVP award ‘blessing’

ORLANDO, Fla. — Kevin Durant cringes a little whenever he hears his name next to words like elite or superstar.

Record-breaking Bryant, MVP Durant spark West

ORLANDO, Fla. — Kobe, KD and the West looked ready to deliver a quick KO. Kevin Durant knew better.

From Negro Creek to Wop Draw, place names offend in West

Just east of Victorville in California’s Mojave Desert two bluffs rise 3,000 feet from the valley floor. A 1949 map by the U.S. Geological Survey officially gave them the name locals had called them for as long as anyone could remember: Pickaninny Buttes.

The Hot Corner: Feb. 27, 2012

Today’s best bet: CALGARY FLAMES (+115) over St. Louis Blues

Silence proves golden as ‘Artist’ wins big at Oscars

“The Artist” won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood’s highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. Among other prizes for the black-and-white comic melodrama were best actor for Jean Dujardin and director for Michel Hazanavicius.

Partisan activism: Despite court decision, Holder targets voter ID laws

In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision upheld Indiana’s voter-identification law, declaring a requirement to produce photo identification is not unconstitutional and that the state has a “valid interest” in improving election procedures as well as deterring fraud.

Badgers’ big man hits target

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A lot of coaches would go ballistic if their 6-foot-10-inch center stepped outside and shot a 3-pointer with the clock running down and their team trailing on the road.

‘Pickles’ cartoonist in running for national honor

He may be jogging through his neighborhood, listening to his grandchildren argue, or even eavesdropping on people as they pay for their groceries, but cartoonist Brian Crane is busy at work.

From ‘Cuckoo’s Nest,’ Sheehan took flight as writer

For Jack Sheehan, inspiration to become a writer came from one source — Ken Kesey’s book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” celebrating its 50th birthday this month.

POLITICAL EYE: Pizza, actor help energize Obama rally

Beatrice Mendoza and Jessica Jauregui, senior biology students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, sat together, nibbling slices of Big Mama’s & Papa’s pizza and waiting for a rally to start to support President Barack Obama’s re-election.

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