A Chicago patrol officer fatally shot a 39-year-old manyesterday after he allegedly lunged at him with a 9-inch knife in aNear Northwest Side restaurant.
Jozef Golas, a Polish immigrant whose address was unknown, diedin Cook County Hospital two hours after the shooting.
Police said Golas accosted Officers …
BOSTON - Mike Lowell drove in five runs to lead Boston's revived hitting attack and the Red Sox cut their magic number to clinch the AL East title to two with an 11-6 win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.
Lowell had three of Boston's 17 hits and took over the team lead with a career-high 116 RBIs, two more than David Ortiz. He also set a club record for most RBIs by a third baseman, passing Butch Hobson's total of 112 in 1977, and raised his batting average to a career-best .326.
The Red Sox increased their lead to 3 1/2 games over the New York Yankees, who played later Wednesday at Tampa Bay. Boston, seeking its first division title since 1995, won for the fourth …
Zurich Financial Services Group said Thursday it completed a $1.9 billion takeover of two car insurance units that belonged to American International Group Inc.
Zurich said it immediately sold most of the units _ 21st Century Insurance and Agency Auto _ to U.S.-based …
The agent industry is dominated by white agents, even though 70percent of NFL players are black. But black agents have been makinginroads, according to Mark Levin, assistant director of research forthe NFLPA.
Levin points to the successes of agents Lamont Smith, EugeneParker, David Ware, Brig Owens and Harold "Doc" Daniels as signs ofchange.
Some black agents who have come to prominence started out as"runners" or recruiters for white agents.
Some white agents feel black agents use their race to theiradvantage when recruiting players.
"Black agents are putting tremendous pressure on black kids notto go with white agents," one white agent …
MUMBAI, India (AP) — The "Little Master" missed making cricket history by one swing of the bat.
Sachin Tendulkar, one of the greatest cricket batsmen of all time, fell just short of becoming the first player to score 100 centuries — amassing at least 100 runs on 100 different occasions.
Needing only six more runs to reach the milestone, the Indian great tipped the ball back to an opposing player and was "caught out" Friday, leaving him with 94 runs in the five-day test match against the West Indies.
A 6, which is akin to a home run in baseball but is worth six runs, would have given Tendulkar his historic total. But instead of celebrating, the home crowd was reduced to a …
The only real fireworks between Texas and Seattle this time were the pyrotechnic displays after back-to-back home runs by Josh Hamilton and Milton Bradley, and then the 10th-inning game-winning shot by Ramon Vazquez as the Rangers rallied for a 13-12 victory Monday night.
Only four nights after Mariners first baseman Richie Sexson charged the mound and flung his helmet at Texas pitcher Kason Gabbard to ignite a bench-clearing brawl, the AL West rivals met again. Sexson was with his team, but not playing while serving the third game of his five-game suspension for his actions. He'll miss the entire Texas series.
Vazquez's homer came on a 1-0 pitch with one out …
Karen Stupples began the final round of the Women's British Openin Sunningdale, England, with an eagle and a double eagle. It was thekind of start Annika Sorenstam needed.
Stupples won her first major title with a record-tying score of 19-under-par 269, while defending champion Sorenstam's bid to become thesecond woman to win all four majors back-to-back ended in a tie for13th.
This time, the victory went to a homegrown talent who has beenplaying on the LPGA Tour for six years and won her first title in theopening tournament of the season. Now she has a major to go with it.
"It's quite mind-blowing," Stupples said after finishing fivestrokes ahead of Rachel …
