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  • FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2011 file photo, actress  Lindsay Lohan is shown at an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Laker and the New York Knicks in Los Angeles. Authorities released the 911 call made by Dawn Holland, a Betty Ford Center worker claiming that Lindsay Lohan hit her during a December argument at the facility.  (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, file)

    Lindsay Lohan avoids jail, ordered back to rehab

    Lindsay Lohan sidestepped another jail stint Friday when a California judge sent the 24-year-old troubled starlet back to rehab, telling her she was an addict and faced jail time if she relapsed again.


  • Chart: Fiscal Responsibility

    RAHN: Republican record backs spending cuts

    Will the Republicans really reduce spending if they gain control of Congress? The Republicans have promised to cut spending rather than increase taxes. Their first test may come as early as Dec. 1, when the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (better known as President Obama's deficit-reduction commission) is due to report. The betting is that the commission will recommend a ratio of something close to $3 of spending reduction for each $1 of tax increase. Does this make any sense, and will the Republicans buy into it?


  • Customers wait to buy Nintendo's computer game console, Nintendo 3DS, at retail chain Yamada Denki in central Tokyo, Saturday, Feb. 26 ,2011.  The Nintendo 3DS, offering glasses-free 3-D images, has gone on sale in Japan, ahead of a global rollout, and analysts say it promises to be the world's first 3-D mass-market product. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

    Nintendo cuts profit, 3DS not ready for Christmas

    Nintendo shares tumbled Thursday after the company said its 3DS game machine, packed with glasses-free 3-D technology, won't be ready to go on sale for Christmas, crushing its earnings forecast by more than half.


  • Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels addresses the media regarding the apparent suicide of player Kenny McKinley during a news conference at the team's headquater in Englewood, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Arapahoe County sheriff  Grayson Robinsin said the second-year pro died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Centennial, Colo, near the Broncos' headquarters on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

    Broncos say no signs McKinley was suicidal

    Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley, who is thought to have killed himself with a gunshot to the head, had made previous statements about committing suicide, according to a sheriff's investigative report released Tuesday.


  • Denver Broncos linebacker Wesley Woodyard addresses the media regarding the apparent suicide of player Kenny McKinley during a news conference at the team's headquater in Englewood, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Arapahoe County sheriff  Grayson Robinsin said the second-year pro died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Centennial, Colo, near the Broncos' headquarters on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

    Sheriff: Broncos WR Kenny McKinley found dead

    Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley was found dead in his home Monday in an apparent suicide.


  • Denver Broncos linebacker Wesley Woodyard addresses the media regarding the apparent suicide of player Kenny McKinley during a news conference at the team's headquater in Englewood, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Arapahoe County sheriff  Grayson Robinsin said the second-year pro died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Centennial, Colo, near the Broncos' headquarters on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

    Sheriff: Broncos WR Kenny McKinley found dead

    Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley was found dead in his apartment Monday in an apparent suicide.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS In this Sept. 3, 2009, photo, Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley runs during a preseason NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals in Denver. The Arapahoe County Sheriff says McKinley has been found dead in his Centennial, Colo., home Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. Sheriff Grayson Robinson says detectives are investigating the death.

    Broncos receiver McKinley dead after apparent suicide

    The Arapahoe County Sheriff says Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley was found dead in his home in an apparent suicide.


  • Oregon running back LaMichael James, center, runs between Portland State defenders DeShawn Shead, left, and Nathan Snow during the first half of their NCAA college football game in Eugene, Ore., Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

    No. 5 Oregon prepared for Pac-10 season

    Oregon is ready for the real season to start.


  • Illustration by Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Austria

    MOWBRAY: Fading hopes for peace

    In Israel, politics is the national pastime. Israelis follow politics the same way certain New Yorkers absorb every statistic, past and present, about the Yankees. Last week, which was sandwiched between the Jewish new year and the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur, Israelis were still following the news - just not the latest round of Middle East peace talks.


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