Area roundup: Fares, Mendoza combine for Rogers' fourth no-hitter of season (Temple Daily Telegram)
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:12:17 GMT
ROGERS - Rogers pitchers Ryan Fares and Gregory Mendoza combined for a no-hitter in the eighth-ranked Eagles' 1-0 win over Lago Vista on Wednesday night.
Purdue turns the tables on Siena (Bennington Banner)
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:52:02 GMT
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Purdue played the us-against-the-world game to open the NCAA tournament. Us won.
NCAA: Wisconsin leads Wofford at half (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:04:29 GMT
Wofford shot 28 percent in the first half against Wisconsin to trail 27-19 at the break. The Terriers had only scored fewer points in the opening 20 minutes once this season, Jan. 21 against The Citadel. They trailed 26-17 then, but came back to win 44-42.
NCAA: Purdue takes lead on 25-7 run (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:01:19 GMT
The Boilermakers turned a 32-29 halftime deficit into a 54-39 lead that's a 25-7 run out of the break. Without Robbie Hummel, Purdue has turned to balanced scoring: JaJuan Johnson, Keaton Grant and E'Twaun Moore are already in double figures, and five different players scored in the first 8 minutes of the second half.
NCAA: Missouri-Clemson tied at half (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:52:49 GMT
Missouri has forced Clemson into 13 first-half turnovers with its annoying, pressing defense, but they're tied 39-all at halftime. Keith Ramsey is 5 of 7 from the field to lead Mizzou, while Andre Young has scored 13 off the bench for Clemson.
SXSW Day 2 Brings STP, Cheap Trick Performances, Alex Chilton Tributes (Billboard)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:07:26 GMT
Stone Temple Pilots, Cheap Trick and memories of Alex Chilton punctuate SXSW Day 2.
Temple graveyard thieves could be connected to other cases (News 8 Austin)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:12:25 GMT
More than a hundred vases were stolen from a cemetery in Temple. On Wednesday, police took the suspects in to custody and are now looking into whether the case is related to other graveyard thefts across Central Texas.
Copper flower vases stolen from cemetery (KXXV Waco)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:51:36 GMT
Two men are charged with felony theft after they stole 174 flower vases from Bellwood Memorial Park in Temple. Temple police arrested them Wednesday morning as they left the cemetery with duffle bags full of bronze vases in the back of their car.
US rep: Accused 'Jihad Jane' has been cooperating (AP via Yahoo! News)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:02:00 GMT
A Pennsylvania congressman says the U.S. terrorism suspect known as "Jihad Jane" has been cooperating in an international probe of radical Muslims.
Accused 'Jihad Jane' denies terror plot in court (AP via Yahoo! News)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:22:25 GMT
A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" while she cared for her boyfriend's father denied in court Thursday that she sought to kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.