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After Mattingly criticism Dodgers top Brewers 9-2

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly criticized his team and benched All-Star right fielder Andre Ethier, then watched Los Angeles beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-2 ...
Moore mayor 5 of 6 missing found alive

"We'll try to get it passed as soon as I can," Glenn Lewis said. The ordinance would apply to single-family and multifamily homes. At least 24 people, including 10 children, were killed in Monday's mammoth tornado, the state medical examiner's office said. Another 324 people were injured, said Gov. Mary Fallin. Lewis said Wednesday that six people previously unaccounted ...
Union power at issue as Garcetti elected LA mayor

Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti arrives for an election night rally Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in the Hollywood area Los Angels. Garcetti defeated Controller Wendy Greuel to become next mayor of Los Angeles after a campaign in which he depicted his rival a pawn of powerful labor bosses. (AP Photo/Chris ...
Colo. governor delays convicted killers execution

DENVER -; Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper indefinitely delayed the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap on Wednesday and said he was unlikely to allow it as long as he is ...
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes

FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Holder said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and ...

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Perhaps as a way of proving his range as a director, Ron Howard has decided to follow up his multiple-Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind (2001) with The Missing, a moody and arduously serious western psychodrama. For every bit of emotional resonance Howard managed to wring out of A Beautiful Minds tale of the intermingling of genius and psychosis, he fumbles with The Missing ...

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Phillips strange double lifts Reds over Mets 7-4

Brandon Phillips bounced a bizarre double over first base to snap a ninth-inning tie, and the Cincinnati Reds completed a three-game sweep of the struggling New York Mets with a 7-4 victory ...
Philly police officer busted for ripping off drug dealers

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia police officer has been arrested and charged in federal court with working with another person to set up and rob suspected drug dealers.Prosecutors allege that Officer Jeffrey Walker, a 24-year veteran of the force and longtime narcotics officer, repeatedly spoke this month with an unnamed person who turned out to be an FBI informant about different robbery ...
NBA draft order set so who goes No. 1

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert poses with his son Nick Gilbert after winning the NBA basketball draft lottery, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in New ...
Inaugural tournament cut to 54 holes

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas - The LPGA Tour's first trip to Paradise Island is being cut short by rain.Storms that dumped about a foot of rain on the Ocean Club wiped out the pro-am Wednesday and left the course under so much water that the first round Thursday also was canceled. The tournament now will start Friday and be played over 54 holes.The field features the top three players in ...
Rangers top As 3-1 in Wolfs 1st big league start

David Murphy and Adrian Beltre homered in a three-run first inning, Ross Wolf was strong in his first major league start and the Texas Rangers avoided a sweep with a 3-1 victory against the Oakland Athletics on ...

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Pallam Raju to visit USA for dialogue on higher education

Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister M.M. Pallam Raju would be on a five-day visit to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston beginning on May 13 for dialogue on higher education.

"This a continuation of India-US higher education dialogue which was initiated in 2009 after the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to the US during the same year, " Pallam Raju told the media here today.

This visit is the follow up of the Obama-Singh initiative taken on higher education. The focus of the visit would be on strengthening and enhancing higher education initiatives- 8 projects have been identified under this initiative. Strategic dialogue on higher education would take place. The visit will also cover school education and skill development sector.

Pallam Raju also discussed 'Connect to India' programme where US students will be coming and joining higher research institutes in India. The visit will also focus on exchange of faculty and development of faculty.

The Government has also initiated a scheme through University Grants Commission (UGC) to sponsor Indian researchers at the Post-Doctoral level and the first batch of 126 Indian scholars is ready to go to the US Institutions for post-doctoral research. ...