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No. 24 LSU runs past third-ranked Mississippi 10/26/2014 01:16am • BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Leonard Fournette burst across the line of scrimmage and plowed violently into desperate Mississippi defenders, going down only after his facemask was partially ripped from his helmet.The run by the powerful freshman capped a stunning performanc Colorado falls to No. 25 UCLA 40-37 in 2 OTs 10/25/2014 08:44pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Tony Jones stood in the stairwell of the football building, pounding the wall in frustration.Colorado's comeback came up empty, and the senior running back was feeling the disappointment on Saturday."It's devastating," he said. "It's devastating when you put your work in all t No. 25 UCLA beats Colorado 40-37 in 2 OTs 10/25/2014 08:22pm • PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The winning play wasn't actually designed for Brett Hundley to run with the ball.Try telling him that in the huddle, though.The junior quarterback saw something he liked -- a defensive lineman crashing the play -- faked the handoff and scored untouc Indiana man sentenced for fake credit union 10/24/2014 09:50pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An Indiana man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for defrauding investors through a fake credit union. Sixty-three-year-old Timothy Coughlin of Indianapolis was also ordered to pay $10 million in restitution at sentencing Friday in federal court in Alexa Cowboys surviving without sacks, but can it last? 10/24/2014 07:40pm • SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Tyrone Crawford flailed his arms in frustration after chasing Eli Manning only to see the Giants quarterback throw a harmless interception last week.The Dallas defensive tackle has to come up with a new way after every game to describe life witho P.D. James' riff on Jane Austen comes to TV 10/24/2014 06:14pm • LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actors generally are eager for work and a challenge, but Matthew Rhys and Anna Maxwell Martin admit they were skittish about taking on the lead characters of "Pride and Prejudice."This despite the fact Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth are out of their eleme UK man faked coma for 2 years to avoid court 10/24/2014 10:06am • JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- He might have got away with it if it hadn't been for his supermarket loyalty card.A British fraudster who pretended to be quadriplegic and sometimes comatose for two years to avoid prosecution has been convicted after police caught him on camera driving a Massive cheating scandal at UNC involved athletes 10/23/2014 03:00pm • AARON BEARD Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Bogus classes and automatic A's and B's are at the heart of a cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina that lasted nearly two decades, encompassing about 3,100 students -- nearly half of them athletes.At least nine university employe Batman on Broadway: 'Birdman' marks super Keaton comeback 10/23/2014 12:17pm • WASHINGTON -- Broadway is dark tonight. Or, shall we say, Broadway is The Dark Knight. Twenty-five years after battling Jack Nicholson's Joker in Tim Burton's "Batman" (1989), Michael Keaton wears his heart on his superhero sleeve in the daring new movie "Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ign Review: Shailene Woodley gets lost in a blizzard 10/23/2014 10:06am • JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer By now, there should be no question in anyone's mind that Shailene Woodley is an actress on a rapid-fire journey to stardom. She's enchanted us in enough films -- "The Descendants," ''The Spectacular Now," ''The Fault in Our Stars" -- that one less-than-stellar film Lawsuits say woman trampled at Busch Gardens event 10/23/2014 09:30am • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Busch Gardens is being sued by a woman who says she was trampled during the amusement park's annual Howl-O-Scream event.Brittany Lipscomb says in two lawsuits that other patrons struck her from behind and knocked her down as they were being chased by costumed Busch Gardens emplo Probe: UNC academic fraud was 'shadow curriculum' 10/23/2014 04:54am • AARON BEARD Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- A scandal involving bogus classes and inflated grades at the University of North Carolina was bigger than previously reported, encompassing about 1,500 athletes who got easy A's and B's over a span of nearly two decades, according to an investig How the academic scandal worked at UNC 10/22/2014 10:30pm • EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- The academic scandal at the University of North Carolina unfolded over nearly two decades and involved about 3,100 students, nearly half of them athletes, according to a report released Wednesday by former U.S. Justice Department official K Tannehill's running gives Dolphins another threat 10/22/2014 06:24pm • STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- In his third year as an NFL starter, Ryan Tannehill is finally finding success getting the ball downfield.He's carrying it.With the Miami Dolphins in need of big plays, Tannehill has rushed for gains of 40 and 30 yards in the past two weeks. He has pr Mexican rights body alleges troops murdered 15 10/22/2014 07:25am • MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Soldiers killed as many as 15 people after they surrendered in an abandoned warehouse in southern Mexico last summer, according to a scathing National Human Rights Commission report that lays out allegations of threats, torture, fake autopsies and