The San Francisco 49ers recently signed center Eric Heitmann to a contract extension, keeping the longtime starter with the club through 2011.
The 49ers confirmed the extension Tuesday for Heitmann, a former seventh-round draft pick from Stanford. He has started 89 games at three line positions over seven seasons with San Francisco, winning the Bobb McKittrick award as the club's top lineman in each of the past two seasons.
Heitmann has played well this season …
ORLANDO, Fla. - Casey Anthony was acquitted Tuesday of murderingher 2-year-old daughter in a case that became a national sensationon cable TV, with its CSI-style testimony about duct-tape marks onthe child's face and the smell of death inside a car trunk.
After a trial of a month and a half, the jury took less than 11hours to find Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravatedmanslaughter and aggravated child abuse.
She was convicted only of four misdemeanor counts of lying toinvestigators who were looking into the June 2008 disappearance ofher daughter, Caylee.
Tears welled in Anthony's eyes, her face reddened, her lipstrembled, and she …
NEW ORLEANS - A New Orleans police officer accused of beating a community activist was fired Monday, while another officer accused in the same beating will be disciplined, the police superintendent said.
The two were among a group of seven plainclothes officers in the French Quarter last December who were accused of handcuffing and beating Ronald Coleman, 25. The other five were cleared.
Officer Reynolds Rigney Jr., who joined the police force in 2004, was fired, police Superintendent Warren Riley said. Sgt. Jake Schnapp Jr. was out of town, and no action will be taken until he returns, Riley said. He refused to say what penalty Schnapp faces.
In the Dec. 30 …
Alaska's Kodiak Island is being slammed by a swarm of earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 5.9.
Richard Buckmaster, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, says the southeast region of the island was hit Saturday by 20 earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.6 or greater.
He says the 5.9 magnitude quake is expected to be upgraded to 6.1.
The quakes are centered southeast of Old Harbor, but …
Michael Bourn went from the bottom of the NL Central in Houston to the top of the wild-card standings with Atlanta — and he wasn't the only player who suddenly found himself in a pennant race.
Ubaldo Jimenez, Erik Bedard, Rafael Furcal and Mike Adams were also on the move at the end of a topsy-turvy weekend, when the surprising Indians, Pirates and Diamondbacks made some of the boldest moves at baseball's trade deadline, shedding those longtime seller tags and shopping for immediate help.
All in all, it was a relatively quiet deadline day as the non-waiver cutoff came and went Sunday. The biggest deals came days earlier when All-Star outfielders Carlos Beltran and Hunter Pence …
Hundreds of young Chicago professionals flock downtown to the Victor hotel. Their dress code is corporate casual, but the impeccably dressed, multi-cultural crowd isn't there for a seminar: they're attending one of Mark Fuller's parties.
Fuller, a disc jockey with a marketing degree from Jackson State University turned marketing CEO, has thrown some of Chicago's hottest networking events for young, urban professionals.
The weekly events are held at hot spots and swank venues and bring in, on average, 500 to 1,000 people. Legendary DJs like Tone B Nimble, DJ 33 1/3 and DJ TimBuck2 provide musical entertainment, and national recording artists like Kanye West, Mos Def, Common …
Government and opposition leaders in Kenya said they were once again closing in on a deal to share power, but continued to spar over details as they asked a violence-weary country to wait a few days more for the end of a bloody political crisis.
Talks were suspended over the weekend as negotiators met with their respective party leaders in consultations they said would push them closer to a deal when they resume Monday.
But as both sides try to share power without relinquishing authority, a deal has remained elusive despite repeated promises of an imminent agreement.
Though recent weeks have been largely calm, Kenya has been scarred by the deaths …
