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ATLANTA - Former President Carter called divisions among Christians a “cancer” in the church, as he opened a meeting meant to unite moderate Baptists across racial and theological lines and show their tradition goes beyond conservative Southern Baptist beliefs.The assembly, “Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant,” included four major black denominations, Baptists from throughout North [...]

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Lake Erie surged over its eastern shore Wednesday, adding flooding to the headaches delivered by a windy storm that tipped tractor-trailers, disrupted flights, and toppled trees and power lines across a wide swath of the nation.Arctic air roared into New York before dawn, sending Tuesday’s springlike temperatures plummeting. Buffalo went from 53 [...]

DETROIT - As Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick returns to City Hall
after publicly apologizing to his wife, children and Detroit
residents for events surfacing from a text messaging sex scandal, a
criminal investigation into whether or not he and his top aide lied
under oath during a whistle-blower’s lawsuit still hangs over his
head.
Kilpatrick ended his 10-minute speech Wednesday night from [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - As the new year approached, four games were crammed into seven days, including Notre Dame’s first two Big East trials. To foster a short-term, compartmentalized psychological focus, coach Mike Brey dangled this idea before his team: One week to make a move. [...]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Matt Cassel is every New England Patriots fan’s worst nightmare. He’s the one player they don’t want to see in a game, especially the Super Bowl. He’s Tom Brady’s backup.When the star quarterback was hobbling around on a sprained ankle last week, attention quickly turned to Cassel.Who is he?

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MINNEAPOLIS - Tax audits can be more entertaining than what transpired Wednesday night at Target Center. A Thesaurus would have run out of adjectives to describe the action as awful. Luckily, following the Bulls’ dreadful 83-67 loss to the Timberwolves that set new [...]

DENVER - Defenseman James Wisniewski searched for words to describe the Blackhawks’ meltdown Wednesday night and finally arrived at “just mind-boggling.” That about summed it up as the Hawks, who had high hopes they would start a playoff push as they began a seven-game [...]

Easter Heathman, 90, caretaker of the site of Knute Rockne’s fatal 1931 plane crash, died Tuesday from complications of pneumonia. Heathman’s name was not as well known as Ara Parseghian’s or Joe Montana’s when it came to Notre Dame football legends, but the former [...]

3 things you would have to see to believe at the Super Bowl 1. The best-dressed sportswriter award Wednesday — not exactly a hard event to win — went to Gary Ralston of the Daily Record in Glasgow, Scotland. After traveling 5,500 miles over [...]

The Fulcrum Point New Music Project is devoting the fifth and final season of its multi-year exploration, “Essential Art: Essential Elements,” to a condensed recap of all the elements. Indeed, the concert that began the group’s 10th anniversary season Tuesday at the Harris Theater for Music and [...]