LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Joe Crawford and Patrick Patterson scored 15 points apiece as Kentucky held off Mississippi 58-54 on Wednesday.

Indictment doesn't faze lawyer Longtime attorney fights charges ...

Noel Gage sits with his ex-wife, Hilda, earlier this month at her Las Vegas home. The pair were married for nearly 30 years and remain close friends. Hilda Gage, who said she believes her ex-husband is innocent, retired in 2006 after 10 years on the Michigan Court of Appeals.
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Jefferson Centenarian Reaps Benefits From Girl Scout Cookies

It really was something. It really saved me," Preston said.

When asked if Thin Mints were the secret to her longevity, Preston responded, "I guess they are." Although the cookies saved her life, Preston credits peanut butter for her longevity. "I eat it every day. My sister used to say I had bread with my peanut butter." Today Preston eats cashew butter.

"I've eaten well all my life. I love to eat. My mother used to say I ate like every meal was my last good meal." Preston added.

"I've had a very active life." Preston was born on June 28, 1903 in Spencer, Mass. She walked to school, and home for lunch and back to school every day over the steep hills in Spencer. "That's why I had such strong legs." She enjoyed playing tennis for many years. She attended Brown University for three years, and then spent her 20th year aboard the steamer Carinthia of the Cunard Line with her sister, Barbara, and aunt and uncle touring the world.

Interest Rates, Congress, and Your Mortgage

Rates can rise, as they did last week, when investors react to news, such as the Fed cut, and expect it to strengthen the economy or spur inflation, explains Doug Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association. According to MBA's weekly survey, the average interest rates for 30- and 15-year fixed mortgages increased about a tenth of a percentage point over the past week, to 5.6 percent and 5.04 percent, respectively.

Fading Fall Foliage Blamed on Global Warming

EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. — Every fall, Marilyn Krom tries to make a trip to Vermont to see its famously beautiful fall foliage.

Forested hillsides usually riotous with reds, oranges and yellows have shown their colors only grudgingly in recent years, with many trees going straight from the dull green of late summer to the rust-brown of late fall with barely a stop at a brighter hue.

Macedonia's Report Card - 10 Things that Could Go Wrong

Like Blanche Dubois in "Streetcar Named Desire", Macedonians now prefer fantasy over harsh reality. They lash against anyone who wishes to offset their euphoria with a long, hard look at hazards, real achievements, and true future prospects.

Under the tutelage of the Gruevski government, Macedonia made great strides in a surprisingly short period of time. The government should be lauded and complimented for its energy and initiative and its inordinate ability to transform Macedonia into a modern participant in globalization. The pace and extent of its accomplishments in incredible.

Yet, Macedonia faces 10 risks and the government is doing precious little to confront them:

1. Asset Bubbles

At a multiple of 37, the Macedonian Stock Exchange is a bubble, by any definition of the word.

Bush's Blackwater, an armed and deadly mercenary Christian army

Like most of you I knew Blackwater was a military contractor with personnel in Iraq. I knew they also sent armed personnel to police the street of New Orleans after Katrina. But I did some research after a private pilot friend sent me a series of photographs he recently took flying over their 6,000 acre North Carolina training site (see exclusive enlarged high resolution pictures here, my friend took them not knowing whether there might be dire consequenses flying so close to their facility). Once I did a little reading I was horrified at the secret army Bush has at his beck and call.

For starters, I suggest readers take a few minutes and at least view this discussion, if not read the entire article from The Nation by Jeremy Scahill, the author of a new book, "Blackwater, The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army".

Internet Family Sues MySpace After Teen Commits Suicide

While the Internet has a wealth of good things going for it, there are some bad points as well. Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook illustrate these points well.

The Dallas Morning News reports that another young girl, a 14-year-old identified only as Julie Doe from California killed herself in July of 2006 after being sexually assaulted by a 30-year-old man that she had met on MySpace named Kiley Ryan Bowers.

AXA bars withdrawals from property fund

INVESTMENT manager AXA said overnight that it has barred redemptions from two of its main UK property funds for up to six months as it fights to avert firesales in the wake of a UK commercial property slump.

Buffy the Cynicism Slayer: Behind the Obama Phenomenon

I've made this comment on other posts, but I say this because how many politicians do you know who want single payer health care?

And why isn't he coming out and saying all this? He speaks in generalities because the opposition (starting with Hillary) would twist his words and the media would jump on it. It's funny, there's something about him you don't trust. There's something about him I do trust, and I've spent many years being wary. But he feels authentic to me. I acknowledge I could be wrong, but look around, what have we got to lose? I want to take a chance, a leap of faith, and I don't feel uncomfortable doing it either. I watched Michelle Obama's UCLA speech, and I liked what she said and I liked her. Their parents couldn't afford to put them through college and she said they were just three years out from paying off their student loans.

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In the first flush of her California victory, it seemed Clinton had a clear path to the nomination. But the picture looks different on closer examination a day later.

While she was winning the dwellings of America's elite, Obama was sweeping everyplace else - Utah, Idaho, Minnesota, Illinois, North Dakota, Kansas and Colorado, many of them states with virtually no black population. And his success in Missouri, Alabama and Georgia show that he continues to dominate Southern states with their large minority populations.

Why is Clinton doing so poorly in the heartland? There, away from the liberal media and establishment bias and from the coastal immigrant and Latino concentrations, she seems at a loss. Aside from her core white-women constituency, these voters are really supporting the memory of Bill's presidency more than the prospect of a Hillary administration.