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When it came to casting the female lead for Lionel Richie's new video, I Call It Love, the singer-songwriter didn't have to look any further than his famous daughter Nicole.

"It is so odd, you just don't understand, this is an out-of-body experience," Richie told 24 hours news services.

"To the world, that's Nicole Richie. To Lionel Richie, that's the little girl down the hall ...

If there is truly a secret to Jim Grobe's successful turnaround at Wake Forest, its been the ability to remain steadfast about redshirting every freshman entering the program.

The No. 22 Demon Deacons enter Saturday's game with ACC Atlantic Division co-leader Boston College with the distinction of being one of two Division I-A programs in the country that hasn't played a first-year fre...

By Paul Upham: In the latest WBA super middleweight world ratings Sam "King" Soliman is an interesting new addition at No.3. After giving Winky Wright all sorts of trouble over twelve rounds in a points loss in December 2005, Soliman and his promoter Dan Goossen have been pushing for a rematch with Wright or a shot at middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor, without success.

By Paul Up...

Bird beginnings: Originally from Asia, the pheasant was first brought to the United States in the late 1800s. In the subsequent decades, it flourished. In South Dakota, known as "the pheasant capital," some 1.9 million pheasants were killed last year.

But the loss of habitat has taken a toll and the pheasant population has plummeted across the country and in Utah.

Of course, that w...

Milton players said they didn't know they were violating state rules when they held an informal practice Sunday inside Haywood Hanna Panther Stadium before Monday's District 1-4A shootout, Milton Principal Don Lynn said.

The Panthers defeated rival Pace, 10-7, in the second game of the tiebreaker to earn the championship and a home game for a Region 1-4A quarterfinal against Crestview ...

DES MOINES — The unrelenting defense Marshalltown relied so heavily upon during an incredible second half of the season simply could not match Johnston's big guns.

The second-ranked Dragons firebombed their way to into the Class 4A State Volleyball Tournament, swing after swing sending Marshalltown into an unfamiliar state of self-doubt en route to a 3-0 sweep of the No. 13 Bobcats in Mo...

Contact Author Print Article E-Mail Editor Seminars aim to help local teachers, build community ties This year, Yale students are not the only ones benefiting from the guidance of the University’s faculty. Prof. pushes religious debate Religious ideas are essential for a healthy public discourse, law professor Stephen Carter LAW ’79 said in a lecture at the Law School Auditorium on Thursday...

Keystone Heights is going to the dance, but if it starts looking ahead it might just get its toes stepped on before it gets there. Fleming Island and Orange Park are facing the end of what were once so-very promising seasons, and Middleburg and Ridgeview have been looking ahead to next year for quite some time now.

But at St. Johns Country Day, the mere possibility of ending its season wi...

An Allen Park, Mich., man is free of his advanced-stage skin cancer, 15 months after his diagnosis, proof — at least in principle — that gene therapy may be effective in stopping tumor growth for good.

Thomas May, a 41-year-old engineer with Ford Motor Co., was one of 17 melanoma patients in the United States to receive the experimental therapy in 2005. May and a Wisconsin man...