CHARLESTON, S.C. – Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-’em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Tuesday. He was 88. Spillane’s death was confirmed by Brad Stephens of Goldfinch Funeral Home in his hometown of Murrells Inlet. Details about his death …
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WASHINGTON – A senior Interior Department official was awarded his own buffalo to hunt on a billionaire’s ranch a month before his office designated Houston as a port for exotic wildlife, a move that benefited the ranch owner. The involvement of the official, David P. Smith, “was inappropriate and violated …
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HOYLAKE, England – Tiger Woods has plenty of competition at the British Open — and maybe another duel with Sergio Garcia in the making. The Spaniard surged up the leaderboard at Royal Liverpool with an eye-opening 65 Saturday that could have been a few strokes better, positioning himself again to …
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BORDEAUX, France – Former cycling trainer Freddy Sergant was sentenced to four years in jail Monday in a trial centered on a doping ring that supplied a cocktail of amphetamines, cocaine and heroin to riders in France and Belgium. Sergant received the harshest of 23 sentences, with none of the …
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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – At his Tienda La Raza grocery store and restaurant, Jose Bravo sells Spanish-language DVDs and Mexico soccer jerseys, chorizo sausage and chopped cactus. Lately, there has been another hot seller — one-way bus tickets out of here. “People that had been in the United States for a …
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ATLANTA – Georgia’s attorney general filed an emergency appeal Monday of a court order that blocks the state from enforcing its new voter photo identification law during next week’s primary elections. The new law requires that every voter who casts a ballot in person produce a valid, government-issued photo ID. …
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NEW ORLEANS – Four men were killed in one shooting and a fifth was gunned down in a separate incident hours later, the latest round of killings as the city struggles to rein in drug- and gang-related violence that has accompanied the recovery from Hurricane Katrina, police said Saturday. In …
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DALLAS – Julia Roberts is making another debut: this time as a spokeswoman for alternative fuel. Dallas-based Earth Biofuels announced that Roberts will become a spokeswoman for the company and chair its new advisory board. “It’s very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush, joined by “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh, signed a new law Thursday that requires convicted child molesters to be listed on a national Internet database and face a felony charge for failing to update their whereabouts. “Our nation grieves with every family that’s suffered the …
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – An Israeli warplane bombed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry early Thursday, collapsing part of the structure and causing widespread damage in the area. It was Israel’s second use of a huge bomb in Gaza City in as many days in its two-week offensive to pressure Palestinian …
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