COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) — Olympic champion Evan Lysacek has dropped out of the Grand Prix Series, including the Skate America event which would have been his first competition since winning at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
Lysacek told U.S. Figure Skating on Friday that he won't compete in the Grand Prix, including next week's Skate America in Ontario, Calif., …
With big wave surfing's biggest prize at stake, six of the 24 contestants paddled into position half a mile offshore and began careening down the face of 35-foot (10.5-meter) waves.
The heavy fog present at dawn began to quickly burn off above the Northern California coast …
Imagine stepping on a train near Union Station at any convenienthour and whisking off at speeds of up to 110 mph to Milwaukee,Minneapolis, St. Louis, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati orCleveland.
It could happen in the next five to 10 years, said transportationexperts at the second annual Midwest Rail Advocates Conference here on Saturday.
The rights-of-way for a Midwest high-speed rail network alreadyexist for all the major routes, said Dennis Minichello, president ofthe Midwest High-Speed Rail Coalition, an advocacy group. They areroutes presently in service at slower speeds, or are abandoned lines.
"The problem right now is that it's not coordinated as a …
BAD DATA: The staff of the Federal Communications Commission issued a report saying that AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA provided flawed information to justify AT&T's planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile.
QUESTIONABLE DEAL: The report also found the companies failed to show the deal was in the public …
Hundreds of angry Kiev residents on Thursday picketed the office of the city's increasingly unpopular mayor, an eccentric millionaire who sings at rallies, poses in Speedos to show off his good health and goes by the nickname Cosmos.
Angered by major price hikes for public transport, utilities and medical care, the protesters demanded that mayor Leonid Chernovetsky resign.
But so far the 57-year-old has proved highly resilient, despite widespread accusations of corruption and erratic behavior often bordering on the absurd.
He survived an early vote last year that was initiated by Ukraine's parliament in an attempt to unseat him. He is now fending …
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Actress Angelina Jolie left an orphanage in southern Vietnam on Thursday with a 3-year-old boy she plans to adopt. The star, who arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday night, carried the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage to a waiting Toyota van. They are expected to head to the Department of Justice in Ho Chi Minh City where an official ceremony will be carried out to complete the adoption.
Jolie arrived at the orphanage carrying her 5-year-old son Maddox, whom she adopted in neighboring Cambodia in 2002.
About 20 children dressed in …
