22 July 2007
Cardinals sign first-round pick Kozma
The St. Louis Cardinals agreed to terms with their top draft pick, shortstop Pete Kozma, on Saturday.
Kozma, who was the 18th pick overall in the first-year player draft on June 7, will report to the club's minor league facility in Jupiter, Florida an...
19 July 2007
Numbers Game: Devils' Advocate
The New Jersey Devils entered the off-season with two of the most desirable unrestricted free agents, Scott Gomez and Brian Rafalski, and lost them both.
Numbers Game takes stock of the Devils' free agent signings.
Insider: Katz looking to acquire Oilers
There very well could be a change of ownership on the horizon for the Edmonton Oilers. Sources tell TSN that local billionaire Daryl Katz has submitted an offer to buy the franchise outright from the Edmonton Investors Group.
Wild re-sign enforcer Boogaard
The Minnesota Wild re-signed forward Derek Boogaard to a multi-year contract on Wednesday, avoiding an arbitration hearing slated to take place next week.
16 July 2007
Food-labeling effort gains new momentum (AP)
AP - Shoppers are in the dark about where much of their food comes from despite a five-year-old law requiring meat and other products to carry labels with their country of origin.
RBS group to offer 90 percent cash for ABN bid: reports (Reuters)
Reuters - A trio of banks led by Royal Bank of
Scotland Group plans to present a new, nearly all cash
bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO Holding NV as early as
Monday, according to two media reports on Sunday.
Lists of best-selling books (AP)
AP - 1. "The Quickie" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown and Company)
'Potter' works magic in $77.4M debut (AP)
AP - Harry Potter remains a box-office charmer.
15 July 2007
Prosecution rests in Padilla trial (AP)
AP - PROSECUTION RESTS: After nine weeks, 22 witnesses and dozens of FBI wiretaps, prosecutors finished presenting their case to jurors in the terror support trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants.
Mexico asks U.S. to extradite suspected meth maker (Reuters)
Reuters - Mexico has asked the United States
to extradite a suspected narcotics manufacturer who owns a
Mexico City mansion where police discovered $206 million in
cash earlier this year, a government source said on Friday.
Reporter hit outside Conn. courthouse (AP)
AP - The father of a man charged with sexual assault was arrested after striking a television reporter outside a courthouse where his son's bail had just been revoked, police said.
Williams says he'll remain Tiger's caddie
Steve Williams has no intention of quitting his job as caddie to Tiger Woods, the New Zealand native said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.
Williams told New Zealand's Sunday Star-Times he didn't know why rumours were circulating he was about...
Artest, Jackson suspended 7 games each
Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson were each suspended by the NBA on Saturday for the first seven games of next season because of their most recent legal problems.
Silva solid as Twins edge A's
Carlos Silva allowed two hits pitching into the seventh inning, Michael Cuddyer drove in a pair of runs and the Minnesota Twins held on to beat the Oakland Athletics 4-3 Saturday night.
13 July 2007
Former Bush aide faces possible contempt charges (Reuters)
Reuters - A congressional panel moved toward
seeking contempt charges against former White House counsel
Harriet Miers on Thursday after she refused to appear -- under
orders from President George W. Bush -- at a hearing on the
firing of federal pr...
Ravenous robber makes himself at home (CourtTV)
CourtTV - (Court TV) - An Arizona man who broke into a woman's
home has given new meaning to the term "hamburglar."
Trade deficit rises in May (AP)
AP - America's trade deficit rose to its second-highest level of the year as the price of imported crude oil jumped and demand for Chinese products remained strong despite recalls of tainted products.
Rio Tinto to buy Alcan for $38 billion (Reuters)
Reuters - Anglo-Australian miner Rio
Tinto Ltd/Plc offered $38.1 billion to buy Canada's
Alcan Inc in an agreed deal to create the world's No. 1
aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc
10 July 2007
Defence challenges Italy's right to try US marine in Iraq shootings (AFP)
AFP - The trial in absentia of a US marine who shot dead a top Italian military intelligence officer in Iraq was adjourned Tuesday to September 27 after the defence questioned Italy's jurisdiction in the case.
Bush: US commander to decide Iraq troop levels (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush, battling a growing congressional rebellion against his unpopular Iraq policy, rejected lawmakers' calls for withdrawing US forces from the war-torn country.
Lawyer: Italy cannot try U.S. soldier (AP)
AP - A lawyer defending a U.S. soldier charged in the 2005 killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq argued in court Tuesday that Italy does not have jurisdiction in the case.
3 killed in attack on Green Zone (AP)
AP - A thunderous barrage of mortars or rockets killed at least three people and wounded 18 in the Green Zone on Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy said. One of the dead was an American service member.
Sunni extremists put village under siege (AP)
AP - Sunni extremists have seized control of a remote village northeast of Baghdad in a fierce battle with residents who pleaded for rescue by Iraqi army and police as they tried to defend their homes, the deputy provincial governor said Tuesday.
Bush hits back at anti-war barrage (AFP)
AFP - President George W. Bush pleaded for more time for his last-ditch Iraq strategy to work Tuesday, despite a growing Republican revolt and a barrage of Democratic demands to bring US troops home.
Obese survive heart attacks better (AP)
AP - While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one. Scientists are stumped over why that seems to be the case and pose several theories.
