SOUTH BEND - What would a Notre Dame football game be without fourth-quarter intrigue? Last season's Irish penchant for late-game drama carried over to 2010 when the Brian Kelly era began with a 23-12 victory over Purdue on Saturday. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:28:10 GMT
Thousands of Notre Dame fans were hoping for a victory today. And while the game officially kicked off at 3:30 p.m., the party started well before that as tailgaters began rolling onto campus early this morning. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:02:35 GMT
Michigan State Police urge motorists to be cautious after a Saturday morning "police impersonator" incident in Cass County. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:12:55 GMT
Coast Guard recovery efforts to find the body of a man presumed drowned in Lake Michigan have been scaled back because of high waves and strong currents. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:20:15 GMT
SOUTH BEND — A woman reported being robbed at gunpoint Friday night in her home in the 700 block of North Sherman Avenue, a couple blocks north of Lincoln Way West, police said. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:27:50 GMT
ALMENA — Police cited a Paw Paw woman Friday morning for failure to yield the right of way at the intersection of M-43 and Fish Hatchery Road in Almena Township. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:52:53 GMT
SOUTH BEND — Downtown South Bend was the land of the living dead Friday, as 400 zombies slowly shuffled through the city in a sidewalk parade. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:58:39 GMT
Dayne Crist threw for 205 yards and a touchdown in his first start, Armando Allen ran for a score and Notre Dame's defense was solid Saturday in a 23-12 win over Purdue that gave coach Brian Kelly a victory in his Fighting Irish debut.
This year's Notre Dame leprechaun came from a Purdue family, but it was his grandfather who inspired him to come to South Bend. After David's grandfather passed away this week, Saturday's win against Purdue is very meaningful to the Irish idol.
In July, we told you about a $500,000 lake house that has been sitting empty for five years, its owner mysteriously disappearing leaving the home fully furnished with food in the refrigerator and even dishes in the sink. Now the mystery has come to an end.
AP - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago.
AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."
AP - NATO commanders were overly optimistic when they predicted quick success taking the key Taliban-held town of Marjah last winter, the outgoing deputy commander said.
AP - Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot of people who have lost jobs — or know someone who has — now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections.
AP - American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities.
AP - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating.
An Iranian woman already condemned to death for adultry may be facing another sentence of 99 lashes because it appears she was photographed without a head scarf. Foes of her execution say it is a case of mistaken identity.
Police in Ohio say a father cut his family off from the outside world, sexually abused at least one of his daughters and locked one child in a closet-sized room for a year.
Bahrain says it plans to charge 23 people for plotting to overthrow the government and for belonging to what officials described as a sophisticated terrorist network, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported on Saturday.
Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section could be a model for other websites, a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said Saturday.
An apparent U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border, two Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN on Saturday.
The sham marriage trial of actress Fernanda Romero, which the judge has likened to a soap opera, appeared threatened with a mistrial Friday after a dramatic turn a day earlier.
Since World War II, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have consistently held the United States out as a worldwide model for the protection and promotion of human rights standards.
Officials declared a state of emergency Saturday after a powerful predawn earthquake struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, sending people into the streets as windows exploded, water mains broke and buildings crumbled.
A United Nations representative on Saturday pleaded for more international aid to help the millions of Pakistanis displaced from flooding that has ravaged the country for more than a month.
NYT: As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members.
A crane hoists a key piece of oil spill evidence from the Gulf of Mexico, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer.
American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States.
Craigslist closed the adult services section of its website, a week after a group of state attorneys general complained about illegal ads promoting prostitution.
After disrupting Labor Day weekend plans millions, Earl makes a blustery landfall Saturday morning in Canada's Nova Scotia province, where one man died.
Author Joe McGinniss is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving for his Massachusetts home after living next door to his subject, Sarah Palin, for three months in Wasilla, Alaska.
The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around Christchurch, New Zealand, also ripped an 11-foot wide fault line in earth surface.
Trent Richardson ran for two touchdowns and Greg McElroy passed for 218 yards to help No. 1 Alabama beat San Jose State 48-3 on Saturday night. The defending national champs shrugged off the absence of injured Heisman winner Mark Ingram and suspended defensive end Marcell Dareus in the opening mismatch.
