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Blancos 2-run triple in 7th helps Giants win 4-2
Gregor Blanco had a pinch hit, two-run triple in the seventh inning, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday.Brandon Belt and Marco Scutaro also drove in runs as the Giants won their second straight following a three-game slide. Scutaro and Hunter Pence each had two hits.Will Venable and Jesus Guzman each hit home runs for the Padres, who have ...
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Molina benefits from scoring change Freese sits tonight
Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina's league-leading batting average just got higher, and an error by third baseman David Freese no longer exists.MLB officials ruled that a two-base error in last week's series against the Mets in New York should have been scored a double for Molina. The reversal raises Molina's batting average from .367 to .371, and gives him the National League lead ...
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A title and legacies on the line for Heat Spurs
Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies.No matter what happens Thursday night, LeBron James and the Miami Heat, and Tim Duncan's San Antonio Spurs have already won NBA titles and secured a place in history.Now is their opportunity to elevate it.The truly memorable teams won the hard way, and that will be the case for the one celebrating at center court this time. ...
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Arizona beats Miami 3-1 on Ross pinch-hit HR
ST. CHARLES COUNTY o Residents of areas hit by the damaging May 31 storm should place tree and limb debris by the curb by next Wednesday ...
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Spurs break bread try to move on from collapse
The San Antonio Spurs are hoping the road to recovery from an incredible collapse in Game 6 goes through their stomachs.After blowing a five-point lead with 28 seconds to play that prevented them from winning their fifth championship, the Spurs held a team dinner to try to refocus.Tim Duncan says the dinner helped the Spurs clear their heads. They are hoping to avoid dwelling on the collapse ...
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She's All That
"She's All That" is "Pygmalion" set in a Southern California high school, with the student body president and all-around athlete trying to turn a gawky, bespectacled art student into the prom queen in six weeks. The set-up is thin and much of the film is composed of predictable, well-trodden material from the John Hughes oeuvre and its imitators of the mid-1980s (anybody remember "Can't Buy Me Lo ... ...
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Tree limb debris in St. Charles County must be placed at curb by June 26
ST. CHARLES COUNTY o Residents of areas hit by the damaging May 31 storm should place tree and limb debris by the curb by next Wednesday ...
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St. Charles towing company under federal probe
ST. CHARLES COUNTY o Residents of areas hit by the damaging May 31 storm should place tree and limb debris by the curb by next Wednesday ...
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Express Scripts planning to add 1500 jobs in north St. Louis County
ST. CHARLES COUNTY o Residents of areas hit by the damaging May 31 storm should place tree and limb debris by the curb by next Wednesday ...
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Police identify man killed in shootout at Berkeley apartment complex
Police today identified a man who died after a shootout Tuesday afternoon in Berkeley as 20-year-old Oshai Coleman.Berkeley Police Chief Frank McCall Jr. said Coleman died after fleeing the scene of the shooting about 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Madelaine Manor Apartments. A woman and two other men, all in their early 20s, were seriously injured in the shooting. They were still hospitalized ...
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Stocks slide and Treasury yields spike after Bernanke says Fed could slow its bond purchases
NEW YORK -- Financial markets shuddered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge economic stimulus program later this year and end it by the middle of 2014. The reaction by investors -- the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to its highest in 15 months -- showed just how much investors have ...