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NBA owners fail to pass lottery reform 10/23/2014 10:50am • JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the biggest issues on the agenda when the NBA's owners arrived in New York for the board of governors meetings was thwarting the tanking strategy employed most brazenly by the Philadelphia 76ers.A proposal that would reduce the incentive f Caffeinated underwear will not help you lose weight 10/23/2014 10:01am • Dr. Drew, One Minute Clinic Q&A: Poitras on capturing history in a hotel room 10/23/2014 08:04am • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Imagine if Bob Woodward's clandestine meetings in a Washington D.C. parking garage with Deep Throat had been documented -- or, better yet, filmed by Woodward, himself.The analogy isn't perfect, but that's about the closest equivalent to Laura Poitras' one-o Study finds drugs still in recalled supplements 10/22/2014 07:40pm • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Dietary supplements containing potentially dangerous prescription drug ingredients may still be for sale even years after safety recalls, a study found.In supplements bought online, researchers detected hidden steroids, similar ingredients to Viagra a Versatile Le'Veon Bell driving Steelers offense 10/22/2014 06:14pm • WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Another time, another life and maybe Le'Veon Bell wouldn't be a running back.Truth is, the budding Pittsburgh Steelers star grew up wanting to be Randy Moss. Genetics did him in. Rather than long and lithe, the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Bell is long and laye Vermont man guilty of luring, killing teacher 10/22/2014 03:36pm • WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- A part-time snowplow driver who told police he and his wife set out "to get a girl" was convicted Wednesday of luring a prep-school teacher out of her Vermont home and then killing her.The 32-year-old defendant, Allen Prue, cried when the jury ann Mazda roadster in Guinness World Records 10/22/2014 03:32pm • ANN M. JOB For The Associated Press Driving the 2015 Mazda MX-5 Miata roadster is like letting loose of heavy burdens.The smartly styled, 13-foot-long two-seater is so efficient in design, there's not a lot of room to carry extra baggage.The car, itself, weighs less than 2,600 pounds and is energeti Fact sheet: 2015 Mazda MX-5 Miata 10/22/2014 12:40pm • The Associated Press 2015 Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand Touring Hard TopBASE PRICE: $23,970 for Sport soft top with five-speed manual; $26,230 for Sport soft top with automatic; $26,905 for Club soft top with manual; $27,505 for Club soft top with automatic; $27,550 for Grand Touring soft top with manual; Broncos are still No. 1 in AP Pro32 rankings 10/22/2014 07:22am • SIMMI BUTTAR AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- It's almost unanimous: The Denver Broncos are still the top team in the NFL.Denver received 11 first-place votes Tuesday for the AP Pro32 power rankings, which are decided by a 12-member media panel that regularly covers the league.The Broncos (5-1) are CVS tacks tobacco payment to prescription network 10/22/2014 07:21am • TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer First, CVS Health pulled tobacco from its store shelves. Now, it plans to make some customers think twice about filling prescriptions at other stores that sell smokes.The nation's second-largest drugstore chain is developing a new tobacco-free pharmacy network that it 3 Household Items That Reveal More About Your Health Than a Scale 10/22/2014 12:00am • Have you heard? Scales are out. Or, more specifically, considering weight the holy grail of health is out. That approach, described by researchers in a recent review article in the Journal of Obesity as "weight normative," isn't so effective because it encourages yo-yo dieting and generally makes The Many Faces of Depression 10/22/2014 12:00am • To say Rachel Hargrave has experienced "depression" is a bit simplistic. Thirteen years ago, Hargrave -- now a 32-year-old mother and psychology student who lives in Sabina, Ohio -- gave birth to her daughter. A month later, she recalls, "I felt like I hit rock bottom. I couldn't get off the couch. A mammoth, but careful restoration at Smithsonian 10/21/2014 01:19pm • STEVE HENDRIX The Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) -- There are no instructions for taking apart a 20,000-year-old mammoth skeleton. So workers moved carefully Monday as they beheaded the massive one that has loomed for decades over the Ice Age hall in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural His IBM 3Q disappoints as it sheds 'empty calories' 10/21/2014 12:58am • MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- IBM disappointed investors Monday, reporting weak revenue growth again and a big charge to shed its costly chipmaking division as the tech giant tries to steer its business toward cloud computing and social-mobile services. Shares fell more than 7 How to Help Your Parents Eat Healthy and Exercise More 10/21/2014 12:00am • Michael Dempsey was in Del Taco mode. He would drive to fast-food chains every day for lunch and dinner. The 62-year-old had high blood pressure and was starting to show signs of pre-diabetes, but the last thing he cared about was his diet. Dempsey's ex-wife died in a car accident, and even though