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Sooners win Big 12 South thanks to BCS computers

 
Texas defeated Oklahoma, 45-35, earlier this season in Dallas.
But it’s the Sooners, not the Longhorns, who will represent the Big 12 South in the conference’s championship game, against Missouri on Saturday night in Kansas City.
Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech finished in the three-way tie for the division title, but the Sooners (11-1, .9351) were awarded [...]

URGENT: Indian Forces Assault Besieged Jewish Center in Mumbai

The attack came as Indian commandoes scoured two luxury hotels room-by-room for survivors and holed-up militants, more than a day after a chain of attacks across India’s financial center by suspected Muslim militants left at least 119 people dead.
The well-coordinated strikes by small bands of gunmen starting Wednesday night left the city shell-shocked, but the [...]

James Lifts, Then Crushes Knicks’ Hopes

There was a lot to cheer Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden: LeBron James being introduced, LeBron James throwing talc in the air, LeBron James slamming two-handed breakaway dunks and LeBron James refusing to rule out playing for the Knicks.
It was a night to cheer for the future, for the possibilities that come with salary-cap [...]

Clinton fans, foes weigh in on secretary of state post

Illinois Senator Barack Obama and New York Senator Hillary Clinton. (Getty Images Photo)
Barack Obama may be the new leader of the free world, but Topic A this week has become the will-she-or-won’t-she speculation about Hillary Rodham Clinton and the secretary of state’s job.
So superheated is interest in the question that the Gallup Organization conducted a [...]

Residents return to devastated LA mobile home park

Stacks of charred bricks, blackened shells of cars and burned tree trunks were all that remained Monday in much of the community some residents once called the “Beverly Hills of mobile home parks.”
The mostly retired residents returned to see what was left of their homes at Oakridge Mobile Home Park, where winds with hurricane intensity [...]

Friends defend Paula Abdul fan who committed suicide

The Paula Abdul fanatic who police believe committed suicide outside the star’s mansion had cased the “American Idol” judge’s block as far back as January, cops said Thursday.
But a good friend has rushed to the defense of 30-year-old Paula Goodspeed, telling the Daily News that the aspiring singer wasn’t a suicidal, “looney freakazoid” still obsessing [...]

Ahead of the Bell: Mortgage hearing

As the mortgage crisis deepens and the government joins with the lending industry in a new effort targeting struggling homeowners, Congress is examining the roles played by investors, lenders and loan servicers in the process.
Representatives of those three sectors are scheduled to testify at a House Financial Services Committee hearing Wednesday morning.
Democratic lawmakers have expressed [...]

Aides: Obama suggested more help for auto industry

 President-elect Obama suggested to President Bush that the administration immediately help struggling U.S. automakers, aides to the Democrat say, in the first face-to-face meeting the pair had since Obama’s election victory.
Obama’s aides said the president-elect on Monday brought up the issue with Bush and discussed with him the need for urgent action. The Illinois senator’s [...]

China envoy ends historic Taiwan visit amid violent protests

A senior Chinese envoy left Taiwan on Friday after a historic visit that paved the way for closer cooperation between the former bitter rivals, but which was marred by huge protests that left scores injured.
Chen Yunlin — the most senior Chinese official to visit the island since it split from China at the end of [...]

Barack Obama wins presidency, making history

Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the nation’s 44th president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country’s highest office.
A nation that was founded by slave owners and seared by civil war and generations of racial strife [...]