Southern Coastal Cable

By JOSEPH WHITE 2010-09-03T22:35:32Z Nyjer Morgan's wild week has landed him an eight-game suspension, one of nine punishments handed out Friday by Major League Baseball following a brawl between Washington Nationals and Florida Marlins....

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER 2010-09-03T22:09:35Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work....

By TRAVIS LOLLER 2010-09-03T21:44:07Z MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal investigators have decided a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson....

By STEPHEN BERNARD 2010-09-03T21:37:50Z NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market had its first winning week in a month thanks to better news on the economy....

By BRIAN MURPHY 2010-09-03T21:08:28Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said....

By JENNIFER KAY and CURT ANDERSON 2010-09-03T19:27:43Z MIAMI (AP) -- A scientist detained at Miami International Airport because of a suspicious item in his luggage had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague, a senior law enforcement official said....

By BARRY WILNER 2010-09-03T19:00:56Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Ben Roethlisberger is getting time off for good behavior....

By 2010-09-03T18:43:35Z HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- General rule of thumb: when looking to buy marijuana, don't text the sheriff. Authorities said a Helena teen hit a wrong number and inadvertently sent a message to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton, saying "Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?"...

By MARY ESCH 2010-09-03T18:12:35Z BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters....

By CAITLIN R. KING 2010-09-03T15:25:38Z NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last....

By ANNE GEARAN 2010-09-03T15:07:30Z COMBAT OUTPOST SENJERAY, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he saw and heard evidence that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province....

By ALAN SAYRE 2010-09-03T14:44:16Z NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water....

By BRIAN MURPHY 2010-09-03T13:43:52Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that suggest a tough line in talks with the smart phone maker....

By MICHAEL J. CRUMB 2010-09-03T12:34:42Z DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site....

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS 2010-09-03T12:34:31Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Jesse Kelly was still basking in the glow of his victory in an Arizona congressional primary when the Democratic congresswoman he's trying to unseat released a scathing TV ad branding him "a risk" who would gamble away people's retirement savings....

By NASSER KARIMI 2010-09-03T12:34:24Z TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of an Iranian opposition leader with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to keep him from attending a key rally on Friday....

By 2010-09-03T12:31:11Z JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's smoking toddler has kicked the habit. Footage of 2-year-old Aldi Rizal - who smoked up to two packs a day - puffing away circulated the Internet in May and sparked an international outcry. His parents said he'd throw tantrums every time they tried to stop him from lighting up....

By MARK WALSH 2010-09-03T10:47:38Z MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war....

By CARMEN CASTRO 2010-09-03T10:45:06Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Rap and rock will collide once again - this time in a video game....

By KRISTEN GELINEAU 2010-09-03T10:20:25Z SYDNEY (AP) -- Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia because of a disputed tax bill, his lawyer said Friday....