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Bale homecoming, James set for debut in Super Cup 08/11/2014 03:36pm • ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer There's little doubt the UEFA Super Cup's star local attraction will be Gareth Bale, the Cardiff boy turned $130-million Real Madrid star, playing for the Spanish giants on home soil for the first time.The winger is in the Welsh capital with little to prove, having comple Afghan actor links cultures as US war interpreter 08/11/2014 12:26pm • RIK STEVENS Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Fahim Fazli's screen career was beginning to take off, with roles in blockbusters like "Iron Man," when the Afghanistan-born actor decided it was time to give back to the country that had taken him in after he fled Russian occupation a quarter centu Miley both naughty and nice in return to Nashville 08/10/2014 08:52am • CHRIS TALBOTT AP Music Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Miley's back, y'all.Miley Cyrus made her delayed-due-to-illness return to the town where she grew up Thursday night, bringing a flying hot dog, a dwarf dressed as the Liberty Bell, a dozen recognizable hits, a taunt to the girls who beat her up AP sources: Cavs, Wolves set for Love-Wiggins deal 08/08/2014 04:36pm • TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writers LeBron James and Kevin Love won Olympic gold medals together. They're about to team up again, this time to try and end Cleveland's 50-year championship drought.Love will soon be on his way from Minnesota to Cleveland after the teams reached an agreement in principle to AP sources: Cavs, Wolves set for Love-Wiggins deal 08/08/2014 04:36pm • TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writers LeBron James and Kevin Love won Olympic gold medals together. They're about to team up again, this time to try and end Cleveland's 50-year championship drought.Love will soon be on his way from Minnesota to Cleveland after the teams reached an agreement in principle to AP sources: Cavs, Wolves set for Love-Wiggins deal 08/08/2014 04:36pm • TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writers LeBron James and Kevin Love won Olympic gold medals together. They're about to team up again, this time to try and end Cleveland's 50-year championship drought.Love will soon be on his way from Minnesota to Cleveland after the teams reached an agreement in principle to AP sources: Cavs, Wolves set for Love-Wiggins deal 08/08/2014 04:36pm • JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Sports Writers LeBron James and Kevin Love won Olympic gold medals together. They're about to team up again, this time to try and end Cleveland's 50-year championship drought.Love will soon be on his way from Minnesota to Cleveland after the teams reached an agreement in principle A veteran's Purple Hearts mission began with gift 08/08/2014 02:01pm • P. SOLOMON BANDA Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- His labor of love began with an effort to find the owner of a Purple Heart that was given to him as a gift.Since then, Zachariah Fike (FYKE), a captain in the Vermont National Guard, has returned more than 100 Purple Heart medals, sometimes lost, some Scherff's return bolsters Hawkeyes for '14 08/07/2014 12:12am • LUKE MEREDITH AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Brandon Scherff garnered national attention in the most unlikely way imaginable -- at least for an Iowa player.Scherff went viral on Twitter.Coach Kirk Ferentz doesn't even allow his players to use the social media site. But Hawkeyes strength an Teens' bagpipes seized at US border over ivory 08/06/2014 08:20pm • RIK STEVENS Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The skirl of their pipes had barely receded before two New Hampshire teenagers learned a hard lesson in cross-border musical diplomacy: If your bagpipes have ivory in them, leave them at home before traveling to Canada or risk having them seized at Ukraine fighting reaches rebel-held Donetsk 08/06/2014 02:50am • YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Fighting in eastern Ukraine reached the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Tuesday as separatists and government troops exchanged rocket fire in neighborhoods on the edge of the city.In a western district of Donetsk, rockets apparently fired Ex-McDonnell aide testifies of concerns over Rolex 08/05/2014 08:40pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- An aide who dispensed legal and policy advice to former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell testified Tuesday that he and other administration officials worried about the propriety of a product launch event at the governor's mansion and about a Rolex watch Single mom in Fargo returns wallet with $1,000 08/05/2014 08:50am • FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- A single mother in Fargo says she hoped to set an example for her 7-year-old daughter when she returned a wallet containing $1,000 that the two found while running errands.Sadie Hill and her daughter, Adalee, found the wallet Monday in a parking lot. Hill said she works two jobs Thompson could be Pac-12's next 2-way star 08/04/2014 07:22pm • TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) -- Shaq Thompson knows the question is coming. It's asked any time his role with Washington is discussed.So before the debate about whether Thompson is about to become the next two-way player in the Pac-12 Conference, he shoots down any notion that splitting b Star witness in ex-Va. governor trial: No affair 08/04/2014 04:50pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The key prosecution witness in former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's trial testified Monday that he never saw any signs the governor's marriage was crumbling, and that he never had any intimate physical contact with the first lady.A prosecutor asked