To the editor: A national economic recovery will take hold when unemployed workers get back to real, permanent jobs, not government-invented, temporary, make-work projects like collecting census information and filling in potholes along highways. And when hundreds of thousands of people have been out of work for so long they need extensions of their unemployment benefits — all paid for by legislators borrowing again on the federal budget credit card — there is still real trouble no matter how the Obamacrats in the media and their supporters try to spin it with their “glass half full” rhetoric.
MORZINE, France — Close the book on the Lance Armstrong era at the Tour de France. He has.
Nuggets 100, Knicks 90 — In a battle of ex-Atlantic Coast Conference guards, Ty Lawson (North Carolina) bested Toney Douglas (Florida State), scoring 28 points to Douglas’ 27 as the Nuggets remained undefeated at 3-0.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Andres Iniesta always will be remembered for the goal that gave Spain its first World Cup title. And when he scored, Iniesta remembered former teammate Daniel Jarque.
Jarvis Basnight, Years: 1985 to 1988, Career highlights: Started on the 1986-87 team that reached the NCAA Final Four and finished 37-2.
The Heat caught the biggest fish in free agency when LeBron James and Chris Bosh decided to join Dwyane Wade in Miami last week.
Sarah Palin’s political action committee contributed at least $87,500 to candidates she has endorsed in the past few months, according to a report filed Sunday with the Federal Elections Commission.
The Nevada Army National Guard broke ground Saturday on a memorial for five members of a Chinook helicopter crew who were shot down in Afghanistan.
The man shot by police outside a Summerlin Costco store on Saturday was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a master’s degree from Duke University, friends said.
Big Elvis’ wedding is getting a whole lotta media coverage this week.
A grainy video of the 1999 Columbine massacre plays on a laptop projector in the library at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club.
“You want me to stop right now?” shouts the armed teenager in the video.
Bill Maher would “bet the house” Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
KAMPALA, Uganda — In simultaneous bombings bearing the hallmarks of international terrorists, two explosions ripped through crowds watching the World Cup final in two places in Uganda’s capital tonight, killing 64 people, police said. One American was killed and several were wounded.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology to counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults – a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye.
The Implantable Miniature Telescope aims to help in the end stages of incurable age-related macular degeneration, a creeping loss of central vision that blocks reading, watching TV, eventually even recognizing faces.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Despicable Me” wasn’t such a bad guy after all, it seems, opening at the top of the box office with an estimated $60.1 million.
MADRID (AP) — A roaring celebration rocked Spain on Sunday, with some 300,000 people in the capital’s downtown forming a sea of red and yellow in tribute to the nation’s first World Cup title.
The country’s flag and team colors were in full display on Paseo de Recoletos boulevard as hordes of fans watched the match live on gigantic TV screens.
