Jimmer Fredette scored 34 points Saturday to lift third-seeded Brigham Young to an 89-67 victory over 11th-seeded Gonzaga and send the Cougars to New Orleans for the regional semifinals.
Follow the link for event winners in Saturday’s boys and girls swim meets.
U.S. and British ships and submarines launched the first phase of a missile assault on Libyan air defenses Saturday and a senior American defense official said it was believed substantial damage was inflicted.
SAN FRANCISCO — Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan’s stricken nuclear plant have reached the West Coast but federal and state officials say it poses no health risk. They said Friday that the doses of radiation that a person normally receives from rocks, bricks, and the sun are 100,000 times the dose rates detected at a monitoring station in California and another in Washington state.
LOS ANGELES — “American Idol” viewers are saying adios to Karen Rodriguez. The bubbly, bilingual 21-year-old wannabe diva from New York, who crooned Taylor Dayne’s “Love Will Lead You Back” in English and Spanish on the Fox talent competition Wednesday, was revealed Thursday to have received the fewest viewer votes.
When he took over as secretary of state in the Clinton administration at age 68, Warren M. Christopher said he didn’t expect to travel much. He went on to set a four-year mark for miles traveled by America’s top diplomat. The attorney turned envoy tirelessly traveled to Bosnia and the Middle East on peace missions during his 1993-1996 tenure. Late Friday, the 85-year-old statesman died at his home in Los Angeles of complications from bladder and kidney cancer.
Paul Churchfield’s status as Palo Verde High School’s baseball coach appears to be in limbo amid an allegation he had a recent physical altercation with a player.
UNLV spent the early part of the baseball season building a strong record against largely weak teams, its resolve rarely tested.
At a time when ECHL teams want to start peaking for the playoffs, the Wranglers are reeling.
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