DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — Foreigner will live the title of its latest album this year as it kicks off the “Can’t Slow Down†tour that takes off in mid-May. The group behind hits such as “Cold As Ice†and “I Want to Know What Love is†performs Thursday at the Dixon May Fair. The band [...]
Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Diane Lane is awed by the spectacle surrounding the Kentucky Derby, an event she’s attending for the first time. “I’m just riveted,†the actress said Thursday. “I can’t wait. Bring on the rain. I don’t care.†Saturday’s forecast for the 136th edition of America’s most famous race calls [...]
Associated Press Writer “Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick†(HarperCollins, 229 pages, $25.99), by Molly Ringwald: Molly Ringwald has a new book out? And it has the word “pretty†in the title? It has to be a tell-all about the making of that totally awesome trifecta of ’80s-era John Hughes [...]
Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss.— Nikki Bradshaw Carpenter was tough: she could kill a deer and skin it. But when it came to her three sons, the 31-year-old mother was a nurturer and a protector. Thus, friends and family say it came as no surprise to learn Carpenter had lost her life trying to shield [...]
This is the time of the year when all 32 professional football teams, after months of scouting, film-watching, bowl-attending, combines, campus visits and interviews offer their official invitations to the best college players in the country. After accessing their individual team needs, the teams analyze the best players “on the board†to meet those positional [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — In my mind, I’m still in my Isla del Encanto. I don’t think I’ve left since I wrote my last Saturday Living piece on Puerto Rico. I’m sitting on the beach, in a lounge chair, pina colada in hand, book in the sand waiting for me to pick it up and [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The favorite was pulled at the start of the week. Heavy thunderstorms in the forecast could turn the dirt strip at Churchill Downs into something resembling peanut butter. A year after Mine That Bird won at 50-1 odds by hugging the rail in the slop, the Kentucky Derby is setting up for [...]
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer Bob Uecker had successful heart surgery Friday, a six-hour procedure that will keep him away from his beloved team for up to three months. In a statement, Uecker’s surgeon said he replaced the 75-year-old broadcaster’s aortic valve, aortic root and part of his ascending aorta. He also performed a [...]
ALAMEDA — The questions about JaMarcus Russell’s immediate future in Oakland were answered Friday when he took the field for a minicamp with newly acquired Jason Campbell and the rest of his Raiders teammates. Still unclear is the long-term future for the former No. 1 overall pick. The team acquired Campbell in a trade with [...]
SANTA CLARA — Ted Ginn Jr. sprinted downfield on several deep routes and looked back in his element again. The sunny, breezy Bay Area morning wasn’t quite Miami, but he had no complaints on his first formal day of work with the San Francisco 49ers. It didn’t hurt having two former No. 1 picks throwing [...]
MORELIA, Mexico — Michelle Wie shot a 5-under 68 on Friday to take the second-round lead in the Tres Marias Championship at 12 under. Wie, who won her lone LPGA Tour title 5 1/2 months ago in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, was a stroke ahead of Brittany Lincicome (67) and two in front [...]
RICHMOND, Va. — Kyle Busch won the pole for Saturday night’s NASCAR race at Richmond International Raceway with a fast lap at 127.077 mph. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver turned the lap as the 19th of 47 cars attempting to qualify, easily beating David Reutimann (126.618) for the top spot. The pole, just the sixth [...]
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