Friday Morning

A Brief History of Market Milestones

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 13000 on Friday morning — the second day this week it broke the threshold — as stocks rose on strong home sales and consumer sentiment reports. It may just be a number — the market didn't undergo a magical transformation upon hitting 13000 — but such milestones do have [...]

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Stewart, Penske cars involved in practice wreck

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/ By MARK LONGupdated 12:32 a.m. ET Feb. 18, 2012 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Defending Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart caused the first accident of Speedweeks. Stewart, who did little wrong in last year's season finale and clinched his third NASCAR title, rear-ended Kurt Busch during practice Friday for the exhibition Budweiser Shootout. Stewart turned [...]

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J.R. Smith Is Expected to Sign Deal With Knicks

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Doug Pensinger/Getty ImagesJ.R. Smith last March when he was with the Nuggets. J.R. Smith is set to join the Knicks, in a move that will bolster their perimeter shooting and their bench, albeit with some risk to their growing chemistry. Smith is set to sign a one-year, $2.5 million contract, with a second-year player option, [...]

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Will Lakers try to pull out of revenue sharing now? – Lakers blog : The Orange County Register

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Check out the audio of my spot Friday morning on "The Dan Patrick Show" this morning, trying to make some sense of this crazy Chris Paul saga with Patrick, who for his part said the Lakers gave up real talent and are being penalized. As I noted in my column detailing the Lakers' confusion deep [...]

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Pasco: Staggered store openings lead to brisk but orderly Black Friday

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By Erin Sullivan, Times Staff Writer In Print: Saturday, November 26, 2011 Kelly Smith, right, and her mom, Betty Middleton, both of Wesley Chapel triumphantly carry their Cuisinart coffeemakers back to their car at The Shops at Wiregrass in Wesley Chapel on Friday morning. Hundreds of people camped out at the mall. [Photos by STEPHEN [...]

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One Man Killed In Early-Morning Fire

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HEBRON, N.H. — Investigators said an air conditioner might be to blame for a fire that killed a man in Hebron early Friday morning.Firefighters were called to the home on Merrill Road just before 1 a.m. after a passerby noticed flames, but they said there wasn't much they could do.Chief John Fischer said that when [...]

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Hoyer faults GOP for government shutdown threat

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 2 Democrat in the House says lawmakers trying to avert a government shutdown have come "70 percent of the way on the numbers" in budget talks, but are still fighting over social policies such as abortion and the environment. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer tells NBC's "Today" show "there's no [...]

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Longtime newspaper man Danny Malkovich dies Friday

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Veteran journalist Danny Malkovich died Friday morning after suffering an apparent heart attack earlier in the week. Malkovich was publisher of the Benton Evening News — a newspaper that had been in his family for several decades. "This is a tremendous loss to Danny's family and friends, as well as to his newspaper family," news [...]

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Reporter’s Nonsensical Speech Triggered By Migraine

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(Source: CBS Los Angeles) PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — it looks like a stroke, but it's really something called migraine with aura. "I wanted to say Lady Antebellum swept the Grammys, and I could think of the words, but they weren't coming out properly," said KCBS reporter Serene Branson said during the CBS Early show Friday morning. [...]

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Photos: Punxsutawney Phil

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Sam Light, center, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, points to a sign held by members of the club in Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Jan. 1961. (AP Photo) A stuffed understudy for the weather-predicting Punxsutawney Phil is seen in Punxsutawney, Penn., the day before Groundhog Day, Feb. 1, 1973. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck) Sam Light, dressed [...]

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julie powers schenecker

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Florida mother confessed to killing her two children at the age of adolescence because they were being "mouthy". The police response to a check on the welfare of the family in society and the gates of the upscale Tampa youths shot to death and their mother is completely covered in blood. According to Tampa police [...]