After one week of games, Mid-American Conference football teams have only two out-of-conference victories to their credit, both against Division I-AA teams -Ohio's 42-14 home-opening win against the Virginia Military Institute and Western Michigan's 42-0 shutout
Uptown's only remaining record store is leaving the underground.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined a lawsuit yesterday alleging that voting equipment company Diebold Inc. sold the state shoddy hardware and software, exposing elections to hackers and software bugs.
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -Democrat John Edwards used a stop in southern Ohio, which overwhelmingly voted for President Bush in 2000, to direct twin messages yesterday about the war in Iraq and the economy.
ARLINGTON, Va. -US Airways' efforts to extract $800 million in cost cuts from its unions and avoid a return to bankruptcy suffered a major setback when a divided pilots union refused to submit a contract proposal to its membership for a vote.
WASHINGTON -President Bush ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered yesterday under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Athens County Commissioners accepted a piece of property, which contains part of the Moonville Rail Trail, a muscle trail for hiking, biking and horseback, at their meeting yesterday.
HOUSTON (AP) -Roy Oswalt became the National League's first 17-game winner and the Houston Astros extended their winning streak to 11 games with a 9-7 victory against the Cincinnati Reds yesterday night.
SAN JUAN Y MARTINEZ, Cuba -Rancher Raul Hernandez's cows look just like any other breed -only they are no larger than big dogs. They are a perfect source of milk for Cuban families, he said.
WASHINGTON -The federal deficit will swell to a record $422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected yesterday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties.
As the sun sets on my college career, I'm left with only an athletic dream about what might have been.
For those involved with the Marching 110, the final week of summer break means it is time to get down to business and to embark upon training camp. Last week, the band practiced for about an hour and a half, three times a day, to learn its moves and to perfect its tunes.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -Thousands of residents desperate to return home after fleeing Hurricane Frances ignored Florida's plea to stay put yesterday, jamming highways, delaying emergency workers and causing tempers to flare in the sticky heat.
BEIJING -Floods and landslides triggered by torrential summer rains have killed at least 143 people and left dozens missing in southwestern China, officials and state television reported yesterday.
While some Ohio University students are just beginning to get back into the swing of things, several campus organizations are preparing for Fall Quarter following a very busy summer.
WASHINGTON -Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday he is confident the interim Iraqi government will find a way to retake cities now in the hands of insurgents.
(U-WIRE) -We live in a society today where sports have become a major entertainment industry. More and more people are going to sporting events. New leagues are popping up in regions across the country. Yet, I still do not see any children outside playing.
BESLAN, Russia -Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday, carrying coffins large and small, as townspeople buried scores of victims of a carefully planned school siege that prosecutors linked to a Chechen rebel leader.
ST. MARKS, Fla. - Frances crowded into the Florida Panhandle yesterday, taking another swing at a storm-weary state where it already had knocked out power to 6 million people, torn up roofs and boats and been blamed for at least four deaths.
Local hip hop enthusiasts will gather to slam the president tonight in hopes of competing in a national contest.
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