A Newspaper has banned visitors to its website from commenting onstories about missing Madeleine McCann after it was bombarded with"spiteful and defamatory" comments about her parents.
The paper received hundreds of online messages, many of which callfor Gerry and Kate McCann to be prosecuted over the abduction …
Sony Music no Quiere Saber Nada de Lucero
Mexico --En un comunicado de prensa, la compania discografica Sony Music califico como "rumores sin fundamento" las negociaciones y posible contratacion de la cantante mexicana Lucero, y descarto que tales comentarios pudieran haber salido de algun funcionario de la misma disquera.
En el comunicado, Sony Music afirma: "Debido a recientes declaraciones de la cantante y actriz Lucero, algunos medios de comunicacion han afirmado que la novia de America forma parte de la compania Sony Music. Lo anterior es un rumor sin fundamento ya que entre la cantante y la compania disquera no hay ningun acerca-miento".
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The son of Roger Clemens and two other minor league teammates were arrested early Sunday morning and briefly jailed after a disturbance at a restaurant in Salem.
In a news release, police said Koby Clemens, Mark Ori and Jimmy Goethals were arrested after police were called to the parking lot of a restaurant.
Clemens and Ori were charged with disorderly conduct. Goethals was charged with assault and battery.
All three were held in the Roanoke County-Salem Jail before being released on bond.
The three play for the Salem Avalanche, which played its final game of the season Monday in Lynchburg.
In a statement, the Houston Astros …
Firefighters were called to a house in Somerton last Fridayevening where a blaze had started after a plastic tray was leftunder a grill.
The fire at Kirkham Street set off smoke detectors in thebuilding and the …
Teemu Selanne broke open a scoreless game with a pair of goals inthe second period, and Paul Kariya ended a seven-game scoring droughtwith a goal in the third to spark the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to a 3-0victory Sunday against the visiting Los Angeles Kings.
Guy Hebert made 35 saves to earn his 20th career shutout and thefirst recorded by either team in this 29-game Southern Californiarivalry, which was born when the NHL expanded to …
PARIS (AP) — Decoding Rafael Nadal's self-evaluations can be a tricky proposition.
Listen, for example, to the way the top-seeded Nadal spoke about his game and his mindset after handling 37th-ranked Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 Monday to reach the quarterfinals at the French Open, improve his record there to 42-1 and get closer to tying Bjorn Borg's record of six championships in Paris.
Nadal chastised himself for being "too anxious." He said he needs to "hit the ball with a little bit more conviction." Looking at the big picture, Nadal insisted: "The thing is, you have to be (a) realist, and today, I'm not playing well enough to win this tournament."
Maybe …
A news report says the Portuguese government has used its special voting rights to block Telefonica's euro7.15 billion ($8.72 billion) bid to buy Portugal Telecom's stake in Brazil's leading cell phone company Vivo.
Portuguese state-owned news agency Lusa said Portugal Telecom shareholders had voted Wednesday in favor of the sale of PT's 50 percent stake in Brasilcel, a holding company which in turn owns 60 percent of Vivo. Spain's Telefonica owns the other 50 percent of Brasilcel.
Government and Portugal Telecom officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Lusa said the Portuguese state stepped in after the vote at a closed-door …
