3--The A's traded outfielder Nick Swisher, a former star with the River Cats, to the Chicago White Sox on Thursday for three top minor-league prospects. Oakland acquired left-handed pitcher Gio Gonzalez, right-handed pitcher Fautino De Los Santos ...

George was supposed to be among the players headed to New Jersey, but he blocked it by not wanting to give up his "early Bird rights," a provision earned by being in his second year and on his second contract with Dallas ... Kidd was supposed ...

Terrelle Pryor announced yesterday that he was signing with the Buckeyes, turning down Penn State and Michigan. The nation's top-ranked football recruit placed an Ohio State cap on his head in the auditorium of his school, Jeannette ...

" In Wisconsin, Obama introduced what his campaign billed as a comprehensive economic package, which he said he could pay for with cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions auctions, ending the Iraq war and other measures ... "It's a Washington ...

By BRIAN MAHONEY By Brian Mahoney The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Kobe Bryant will start for the Western Conference in the All- Star game, and Jason Kidd will be in the lineup for the East ... But with Bryant's right pinkie in ...

Richards was coming up to his first year of restricted free agency and the last thing Holmgren wanted was for another team to attempt to lure the 22-year-old center with a huge contract offer the way Edmonton got Dustin Penner from Anaheim this ...

Richards was coming up to his first year of restricted free agency and the last thing Holmgren wanted was for another team to attempt to lure the 22-year-old center with a huge contract offer the way Edmonton got Dustin Penner from Anaheim this ...

Once relegated to answering gotcha questions about whether the Bible is literally true -- owing to his former calling as a Baptist minister -- he's starting to get in-the-limelight queries about Iran and immigration ... He's had to defend decisions to ...

Several media outlets reported Wednesday that the Dallas Mavericks and New Jersey Nets were close to finalizing a deal sending perennial All-Star Jason Kidd and Malik Allen to the Mavs for point guard Devin Harris, ex-Pistons swingman Jerry ...

AMERICA warned that spies remain a danger yesterday as two men were charged with selling secrets to China. In Los Angeles, former engineer Greg Chung,72, was indicted for espionage, conspiracy and obstructing ...

_ Chapel Hill investigators Saturday released photos from a bank surveillance camera that they say show a man using an ATM card belonging to slain UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson. Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said ...

The 6-foot-2, 242-pounder, a first-round draft pick by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1998 out of Auburn, spent the 2007 season with the Eagles after being acquired in a trade with the Buffalo Bills. He was Philadelphia's second-leading tackler ...

By Toby Muse BOGOTA, Colombia - Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high diplomatic and economic price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle - expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and ...

I'll just go hang out with l&c on the other side of this virtual tent and talk about slim fast and movie etiquette (that's all I really know about) ... Mody, I'm reminded of the summer my cousin and I, along with our dogs, we hiking in the deep forest ...

Obama communications director Robert Gibbs called on Clinton to release full post-White House tax returns; disclose all congressional "earmarks," or pet projects she had inserted into spending bills; and release all documents on the Clinton ...