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French Open Saturday schedule (June 1, 2013). Order of play on show courts on the seventh day of the French Open on Saturday (times GMT, all matches third round, prefix numbers denote seedings): Court Philippe Chatrier (play starts at 0900)…
The United Nations mission to Iraq said Saturday that more than 1,000 people were killed in violence across the country last month — the highest monthly death toll in years. Violence has increased sharply in Iraq over the past two…
Famous North Carolina artist, Vollis Simpson, died Friday in his sleep at his home in the town of Lucama. He was 94 years old. Born in 1919 to a farming family with twelve children, young Vollis Simpson helped his father…
Colts quarterback Andrew Luck told CNN, via theindychannel.com that having a gay teammate is no problem at all for him. “I hope if someone’s thinking about [coming out], that if they do come out as gay and it makes them…
Three Naval Academy football players are under investigation for sexually assaulting a female midshipman, Academy officials confirmed Thursday. The Naval Academy would not name the players under investigation or say when the investigation started. “Naval Academy leadership is monitoring the…
Four people were killed Friday morning after two single-engine planes collided above north Phoenix, authorities say. A pilot reported seeing two small aircraft collide in midair about 15 miles northwest of Deer Valley Airport, according to Ian McGregor of the…
Hepatitis A outbreak associated with Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berries purchased from Costco. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is working with the CDC, FDA and other western state health departments to investigate an outbreak of…
The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The testing is part of NASA’s Commercial…
It’s knaidel. Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills, New York, won the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, correctly spelling the word “knaidel.” “It means that I am retiring on a good note,” said Mahankali, who attends…
What the heck is wrong with people? The recent Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple was bombarded with negative comments on YouTube, with others even had some Nazi references — “troglodytes” and “racial genocide.” Right now, the comments section had…