Archive for July 11th, 2009

SAINT-GIRONS, France — Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong remains in third place in the Tour de France, after Spain’s Luis Leon Sanchez won the eighth stage Saturday in a sprint ahead of three other breakaway riders. Rinaldo Nocentini of Italy earned the yellow jersey for the second straight day …

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Mark Martin won at Chicagoland Speedway, getting the strong jump off the double-file restart with two laps left to win his series-high fourth race of the season. The 50-year-old Martin led 195 laps on Saturday night, the most at the 400-mile race. He dominated most of the early part of the race …

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LAS VEGAS— Georges St. Pierre has defended his welterweight title at UFC 100, showing off his inimitably well-rounded mixed martial arts skills in an unanimous decision over Thiago Alves. Dan Henderson also knocked out Michael Bisping with a single punch in a middleweight upset as the UFC rolled …

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Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes to strike …

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Peru’s President Alan Garcia, left, shakes hands with his new Cabinet Chief Javier Velasquez during a swearing-in ceremony at the government palace in Lima, Saturday, July 11, 2009. LIMA, Peru — President Alan Garcia shuffled his Cabinet on Saturday following months of protests, replacing seven of …

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Mark Martin makes a pit stop during the NASCAR LifeLock.com 400 auto race at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., Saturday, July 11, 2009.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) (Nam Y Huh, AP / July 11, 2009) JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Mark Martin won at Chicagoland Speedway, getting the strong jump off the double …

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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) — William Hesmer made a career-high 11 saves to help the Columbus Crew to a scoreless draw with the Chicago Fire on Saturday night at Toyota Park. The goalkeeper’s performance for the Crew (5-3-9) came one week after he had 10 saves in a 1-all tie against D.C. United. In his …

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In this undated photo released by the New York City Police Department, Eridania Rodriguez is shown. Rodriguez, a cleaning woman in an office tower a few hundred feet from the World Trade Center reconstruction site, vanished midway through her evening shift on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Police searched …

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ALSIP, Ill.: Distraught families hoping to determine whether loved ones’ final resting places at a historic black cemetery near Chicago were desecrated in a gravedigging scandal were met with more gruesome discoveries: additional human bones strewn about the grounds. Thousands have flooded Burr Oak …

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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Saturday dismissed the idea that the United States might need a second stimulus to jolt the economy out of recession and urged Americans to be patient with his economic recovery plan. Faced with rising unemployment numbers and criticism from Republicans who have …

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