Southern Coastal Cable

By BOB BAUM 2010-09-05T02:32:27Z PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Cardinals have released Matt Leinart, parting ways with the former Heisman Trophy winner who was supposed to be the team's franchise quarterback but couldn't escape the backup role....

By RAVI NESSMAN 2010-09-05T00:31:51Z DAIRA DINPANAH, Pakistan (AP) -- Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be....

By DOUG FERGUSON 2010-09-05T00:07:07Z NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- About the only thing fun for Jason Day was being atop the leaderboard in the Deutsche Bank Championship....

By PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-04T16:12:49Z HAVANA (AP) -- What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?...

By 2010-09-04T16:11:53Z CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- One Nevada gubernatorial hopeful sees a speedy fix to Nevada's budget crisis....

By JOHN HEANEY 2010-09-04T16:09:10Z DUBLIN (AP) -- Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed - evidence that the divisions left by Blair's decade as British leader have yet to heal....

By TIA GOLDENBERG 2010-09-04T14:48:31Z TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Inon Beracha envisions a world where your movements control the gadgets and devices around you. There's no remote control to lose, no buttons to push. The air conditioner senses your presence and changes the temperature to your liking....

By PATRICK CONDON 2010-09-04T14:11:43Z FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) -- Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street....

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE 2010-09-04T11:47:19Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- A healthy economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class even more than a healthy stock market, President Barack Obama said as he reaffirmed his commitment to work hard for America's hardworking men and women....

By LYNN ELBER 2010-09-04T10:23:46Z LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kara DioGuardi is following Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell out the door at "American Idol."...

By 2010-09-04T10:23:02Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday....

By 2010-09-04T08:15:52Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames Saturday near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing nine people including four foreign tourists, police said....

By GEORGE TIBBITS 2010-09-04T08:13:27Z SEATTLE (AP) -- A five-day search for the missing son of top boxing promoter Bob Arum ended when a helicopter located John Arum's body on a rugged Washington state mountain in North Cascades National Park, authorities say....

By 2010-09-04T05:01:23Z BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Bristol Palin said she didn't think twice before waltzing into "Dancing with the Stars," though she's barely danced in her life....

By HOWARD FENDRICH 2010-09-04T04:53:44Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Even Rafael Nadal felt compelled to applaud when his second-round opponent at the U.S. Open hit a spectacular, full-sprint winner and was left doing the splits at the net....

By PAUL DAVENPORT and AMANDA LEE MYERS 2010-09-04T03:25:54Z PHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert....

By MATTHEW LEE 2010-09-04T03:21:15Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement....

By ALAN ROBINSON 2010-09-03T23:56:13Z PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Ben Roethlisberger isn't the only Steelers quarterback who might be out for four weeks....

By JOE MANDAK 2010-09-03T23:10:23Z PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A former US Airways Express pilot will spend nine months in prison for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was "100 percent" effective in helping drug-using truck drivers, pilots and train engineers pass federally mandated drug tests....

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO and DAN PERRY 2010-09-03T23:09:25Z CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry....