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MIAMI - There's no reason to think Melky Cabrera wouldn't be on the Giants' charter back to San Francisco Sunday night. Yet any number of Marlins pitchers likely would have volunteered to escort him to the airport just to make sure.

A man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after his face was half eaten by a naked man, police said.

Now the truth can be told, thanks to the freedom and relief that comes with winning. Hell, yes, Udonis Haslem meant to foul Tyler Hansbrough like that. Would do it again, too, if given the chance. He revealed as much after practice Saturday, stitches still on his face, right eye still dark red with blood. And damn if that wounded eye didn't sting a little bit on this big, tough man from Miami's meanest streets as he tried to articulate exactly what Dwyane Wade means to him. Ol' Udonis isn't going weak, not by a long shot, but age tends to bring perspective and appreciation, and those things can soften even a man as hard as Haslem.

A man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after his face was half eaten by a naked man, police said.

Mark Webber became the sixth driver on Sunday to win a Grand Prix this season, as he led the Monaco Grand Prix from start to finish.

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie showed off a spoof video he made with Newark Mayor Cory Booker at the annual legislative correspondents club dinner. But the 3 1/2-minute clip was about much more than getting laughs.

MIAMI - The fight between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin began with two people huffing and puffing in the dark, and then a brief exchange of bitter words.

It was shortly before 2 a.m. on the eve of the NATO summit when the criminal-defense lawyer emerged from a West Side police station where three purported anarchists had just been charged with making four Molotov cocktails to firebomb political targets.

Afghan authorities said Sunday that a NATO airstrike killed a family of eight at their house in eastern Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday that it would be "disastrous" for Congress to allow cuts in defense spending as scheduled in January.

Syrian authorities on Sunday denied responsibility for a weekend massacre in the central town of Houla in which the United Nations said 90 people died, more than a third of them children.

The awkwardness of presidential politics was on full display Sunday morning as three former rivals of Mitt Romney were questioned about their past criticisms of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

A builder of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge failed to disclose that a 19-foot section of concrete in the foundation of the span's signature tower had not hardened before it was tested. By keeping quiet about the problem, the builder prevented further examination or repair.

The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions, but at least we don't have to worry about the one that plagues many IPOs: How are a few select investors able to buy in early at lower prices and then pocket huge profits when the trading frenzy begins?

Afghan and U.S.-led coalition officials are investigating reports that eight civilians – including six children – were killed when their home in the eastern province of Paktia was bombed on Saturday by a coalition aircraft.

Ever since the recall wars erupted in this battleground state, the Obama campaign has been faced with a dilemma: how involved does the President get in a polarizing fight with huge national overtones?

There are a lot of politicians claiming credit these days for creating jobs in Wisconsin, but there is also a lot of confusion over whether Wisconsin is actually gaining or losing jobs.

Playing in the Stanley Cup Finals is a serious matter, of course, but you begin to question that if you're around Dustin Penner for a good bit of time.

The NBA playoffs keep providing more drama.

On May 2, D'Avonte Meadows, a 6-year-old with an infectious grin and rambunctious streak, was suspended for three days from Sable Elementary in suburban Denver for crooning "(I'm) Sexy and I Know It" to a girl in lunch line.

The United States and Mexico are negotiating plans to start deporting criminal illegal immigrants deep into Mexico rather than releasing them at the border, hoping to stop adding to the criminal chaos south of the border.

Like most in Wisconsin, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Brett Favre anymore.

The NFL, having seen the damage and heard the evidence and been hit with a flurry of lawsuits, is studying various methods to address concussions and their aftereffects.

The Los Angeles Kings were five points out of a playoff spot and stood a wobbly 11th in the Western Conference on Dec. 22, the day Darryl Sutter made his debut as their coach.

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The price that first-time homeowner Justin Bieber paid for his new digs in Calabasas has wended its way into the public record: $6.5 million.

Where is Kim Basinger when you need her?

When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out.

An address delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on Memorial Day, May 30, 1895, at a meeting called by the graduating class of Harvard University. President Theodore Roosevelt's admiration for this speech was a factor in Holmes' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.