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Capitals score 3 goals in SO, beat Panthers 2-1 10/18/2014 11:30pm • BENJAMIN STANDIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Alex Ovechkin played his weakest game of the season, Washington Capitals coach Barry Trotz said.No matter. He still helped his team beat the Florida Panthers.The Capitals scored on all three shots in the shootout, including the clincher by Ovechki Eastern Washington tops Northern Colorado 26-18 10/18/2014 09:00pm • CHENEY, Wash. (AP) -- Vincent Gamboa's interception with 2 minutes to play sealed Eastern Washington's 26-18 win over Northern Colorado on Saturday in a game that saw the Eagles record seven sacks and get a key touchdown on a special teams trick play.Despite a solid game by the defense, which also h No. 7 Alabama steamrolls No. 21 Texas A&M 59-0 10/18/2014 08:44pm • JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama looked every bit the part of a national title contender, with a point-a-minute attack and a defense that planted a goose egg on one of the nation's most prolific offenses.Blake Sims passed for 268 yards and three touchdowns and scored on a Duke beats Virginia 20-13 on Sirk's jump-pass TD 10/18/2014 06:20pm • JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Duke took control of its divisional race -- and made itself bowl eligible once again -- by finding yet another way to beat the team it seemingly can't lose to.The Blue Devils beat Virginia for the sixth time in seven years on Saturday, topping White, Davis lead South Florida over Tulsa 38-30 10/18/2014 05:00pm • TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Mike White threw three unanswered touchdown passes to Andre Davis in the second half and South Florida overcame a 20-point deficit to defeat Tulsa 38-30 on Saturday.White and Davis connected twice on 15-yard TD catches. For their third strike, White faked a screen to the left, a Minnesota beats Purdue 39-38 to go 3-0 in Big Ten 10/18/2014 04:12pm • DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- David Cobb rushed for 194 yards and a touchdown and Ryan Santoso kicked a 52-yard field goal with 4:59 left to cap Minnesota's comeback on Saturday, giving the Gophers a 39-38 victory over Purdue and their first 3-0 start in Big Ten play since 1990. Stocks gain...Oil prices rise... Facebook wants DEA to end fake profile pages 10/17/2014 06:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock indexes are closing out a wild week with a big gain after another turbulent session today. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 263 points, or 1.6 percent, to 16,380. The Dow was coming off six straight losses and ended the week down 1 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 ros China jails 2 reporters accused of faking stories 10/17/2014 07:30am • CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese court on Friday jailed two journalists accused of taking bribes and smearing an engineering company with fabricated articles, one of a series of recent scandals surrounding the state-controlled media.The Yuelu District Court in the centra Leidner guides passing improvement for Gophers 10/17/2014 04:39am • DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota is built around a power running attack, with sound defense and special teams to back it up. The Gophers were even good enough one afternoon last month to beat San Jose State by three scores while completing only one pass.Mitch Leidner miss Texas facing uphill climb for bowl berth 10/17/2014 04:30am • JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Longhorns have reached a critical point in the season: start winning now or risk getting shut out of a bowl for the second time in five years.The Longhorns (2-4, 1-2 Big 12) need at least four wins in their final six games to qualify for a Final defendant in ID ring gets prison in Va. 10/17/2014 03:40am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The final defendant in a sophisticated multistate fake identification ring has been sentenced to 57 months in prison.Mexican national Freddy David Santos Campuzano was sentenced Thursday in Richmond in U.S. District Court. The 32-year-old defendant previously pleaded guilty Judge mulls whether to block Arizona ID theft laws 10/16/2014 10:00pm • JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- Advocates for immigrants urged a judge Thursday to shelve two Arizona ID theft laws that are the legal foundation for business raids by metro Phoenix's sheriff, arguing the Legislature's intent in passing the statutes wasn't to confront identity thef Foundry owner get 2½ years for art scam 10/16/2014 04:33pm • LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A former New York foundry owner was sentenced to 2½ years in prison Thursday for trying to sell knockoff sculptures that he passed off as the multimillion-dollar work of Jasper Johns and other artists."Love it!" Brian Ramnarine said after U.S. Dist Mexico widens search for 43 missing students 10/15/2014 10:29pm • CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TIXTLA, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican police sent horse-mounted patrols and officers with trained dogs up into the hills around the city of Iguala on Wednesday in an expanded search for 43 college students missing since a clash with police last month.The stepped-up hunt Psychic pleads guilty in duping of timber heir 10/15/2014 09:30pm • STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A psychic has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax charges after authorities said she duped the heir to an Oregon timber fortune of millions of dollars and used some of it to travel with her boyfriend and buy expensive cars.Rachel Lee, 43, entere