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Court filing: FBI impersonated repairmen in ruse 10/29/2014 03:14am • ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal agents turned off Internet access to three luxury villas at a Las Vegas hotel then impersonated repair technicians to surreptitiously get inside and collect evidence in an investigation of online sports betting, according to defense lawy Captured Australian weight-loss conman convicted 10/29/2014 02:40am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- An Australian man who promoted fake slimming products was convicted Wednesday of assaulting police and resisting arrest during his recent capture after a year on the run.Peter Foster, 52, has been on the loose since failing to show up for a sentencing hearing late last ye Gibson leads Ducks past Blackhawks 1-0 10/29/2014 12:48am • CHICAGO (AP) -- John Gibson provided just enough time for Devante Smith-Pelly to come up with a big play, and then the goaltender finished the job.Such is life right now for the rolling Anaheim Ducks.Gibson made 37 saves and Smith-Pelly scored on a short-handed breakaway, leading the Ducks to a 1-0 10 Things to Know for Wednesday 10/28/2014 09:16pm • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday:1. IRAQI KURDS HEAD TO FIGHT MILITANTS IN SYRIAThe 150 peshmerga troops will cross Turkey to help their Syrian brethren in their battle with the Islamic State group in the Cyanide searches found on poison suspect's laptop 10/28/2014 09:10pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A medical researcher charged with poisoning his wife had a computer on which someone conducted searches relating to cyanide poisoning two or three days after she died, a state police computer expert testified Tuesday.The searches found on 66-year-old Dr Hong Kong protesters suggest talks with Beijing 10/28/2014 10:43am • HONG KONG (AP) -- Student democracy activists who have occupied Hong Kong streets for a month suggested Tuesday that direct negotiations with senior Chinese Communist Party officials could be a way to end their standoff with the local government.The protest leaders said they want the Hong Kong gover Cloning whistleblower: Little changed in S. Korea 10/28/2014 09:20am • YOUKYUNG LEE Associated Press CHUNCHEON, South Korea (AP) -- The whistleblower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by the values that allowed science fraudster Hwang Woo-suk to become an almost untouchable national hero.In an interview TruTV goes for laughs with 'Friends of the People' 10/27/2014 05:08pm • FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Sketch-comedy shows are like frozen-yogurt shops: While there are probably way too many, most are good enough to stay afloat.Still, it takes a special breed of fro-yo shop to make it worth seeking out in a strange neighborhood.Same with sketch come Police: DUIs up, crime down in Reston 10/27/2014 11:00am • Capt. Mike Wall, Commander of the Fairfax County Police Department’s Reston District Station, said overall crime in Reston is down 14 percent when compared to this time last year. Wall gave the station’s semi-annual “state of crime in the district” report to the Reston Ass Roethlisberger throws 6 TDs as Steelers top Colts 10/27/2014 04:36am • WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Ben Roethlisberger spent a week politely answering questions about Andrew Luck, saying all the right things to anyone who asked about how impressed he was with the rising Indianapolis Colts star.Then Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback delivered a virtuoso Brees, Saints blow past Packers, 44-23 10/27/2014 04:36am • BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Deflated in Detroit one week. Sublime in the Superdome the next.And just like that, Drew Brees and the suddenly resurgent New Orleans Saints have first place in the NFC South division within their immediate grasp.Brees completed 27 of 32 passes for 3 Wilson leads Seahawks over Panthers again, 13-9 10/27/2014 12:02am • STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Russell Wilson walked into the huddle with his team down a field goal and less than five minutes remaining. He started laughing, sensing the familiarity of the situation.Then he looked around at his teammates and said, "We've been here two years in What 'Gone Girl' Does (and Doesn't) Tell Us About Mental Illness 10/27/2014 12:00am • "Gone Girl's" Amy Elliot Dunne is a lot of things. She's beautiful, she's manipulative, she's self-centered -- and she's very decidedly not normal. Dunne also could be a lot of things. She could be a psychopath, she could have narcissistic personality disorder -- or she could just be a girl gone w Luck outdueled by Roethlisberger as Colts fall 10/26/2014 10:20pm • WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Andrew Luck kept reloading, kept taking a hit after hit and pulling himself off the Heinz Field turf.He kept taking yardage by the chunk and kept willing the Indianapolis Colts back into a game their defense kept trying to give away.One awkward step an Chiefs score 34 unanswered in 34-7 rout of Rams 10/26/2014 09:02pm • DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Jamaal Charles shredded the Rams on a pair of touchdown runs. Knile Davis returned a kickoff 99 yards for another score. The Chiefs sacked St. Louis quarterback Austin Davis seven times.If there was a fourth phase to football, Kansas City probab