Walker looking for redemption
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Jimmy Walker would love to have a fairy-tale finish at the Sony Open. Given the bad memories from this place, he was thrilled Thursday with the first chapter.
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He was back in uniform, back where he belonged. Twenty-seven pounds lighter. On the verge of a promotion to staff sergeant. Happy again, and sober. A man escaping an ugly past to build a respectable future.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. Notre Dame tailback Darius Walker couldn&#39;t help but smile when asked about playing against Washington&#39;s suddenly porous defense.
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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By Jordan Robertson< Associated Press
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Bracy Walker got one of the game balls and rightfully so. Needing intravenous fluids to fight off dehydration, Walker rescued the Detroit Lions from the NFL&#39;s longest road losing streak Sunday.
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By Valryn Warren Staff Writer  RIVERSIDE -- Scott Douglas Davis stands in the street, staring like a man waking up from a bad dream to something worse -- workers boarding up his home.  "It's like a concrete block on my chest," he said. "I'm disabled, I can hardly walk.
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Now that Scott Peterson has been convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and her fetus, some people in this city where he was tried are feeling a void: emotional in some cases, financial in others.
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Larry Walker is back in the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade, and he&#39;s making the most of his second shot. In the Cardinals&#39; playoff National League opener, the three-time batting champion led the hit parade.
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  The Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. is on a crusade.  Standing amid the rubble and the thick stench permeating the air of New Orleans' lower ninth ward a year after Hurricane Katrina, the Milwaukee central city minister made a vow.
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Alaska's Old Believers are accustomed to struggle. But even for them, these are the most trying of times.
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Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse â to behold an untrammeled frontier.
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PROVO, Utah - For a star runner at Brigham Young, this was hardly a clean getaway.  Kyle Perry was arrested last week after getting out of his car and striking a pedestrian - with a mop.
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Johnny Estrada resigned himself to the fact he'd be traded yet again. This year it happened a little earlier than expected. Now, the catcher just hopes his latest stop in Milwaukee will finally bring some stability after he was dealt last weekend for the third time in six years.
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In the heart of the city, it's not easy to be a winner. Crime, drugs, and an atmosphere of failure, accentuated by the fumes from MBTA buses and urban redevelopment projects, make it easy, and some argue excusable, to not be the best you can be.
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OK, maybe after today&#39;s announcement, and Justin King&#39;s Â£400 million revival plan for the struggling supermarket chain, it is hard to vindicate the decisions of his predecessor.
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As Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shawn Green struggles with his decision to play or not to play this Friday and Saturday in observance of Yom Kippur, local Jews hope his faith will win out over the pennant race.