Golden State outlasted Cleveland 108-100 in over-time to win the opening game of the NBA Finals, the Cavaliers suffering another major setback with an injury to Kyrie Irving. NBA Most Valuable Player Steph Curry scored 26 points and passed out eight assists while Klay Thompson added 21 points for the Warriors, who trailed most of the night but rallied late and dominated over-time after finishing deadlocked at 98-98 after regulation.
(Reuters) – The Golden State Warriors, led by the league’s Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, drew first blood in the best-of-seven NBA Finals with a thrilling 108-100 overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game One on Thursday. Curry put the Warriors ahead at 102-98 in extra time with two pairs of free throws before Harrison Barnes made it 105-98 with a three-pointer at a raucous Oracle Arena in Oakland,
The debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq, officials said. He was 79.
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A state prosecutor says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the disaster. The revelation suggests Andreas Lubitz was seeking advice about an undisclosed ailment.
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Police in northern Colorado are investigating any possible link between the slaying of a man on a neighborhood sidewalk and two previous shootings of a bicyclist and a driver.
By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – A Kazakh exchange student who was friends with the Boston Marathon bomber was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in U.S. federal prison on Friday for removing a backpack containing fireworks from the suspect’s room during a massive manhunt. Azamat Tazhayakov was the second of three friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be sentenced for going to Tsarnaev’s dorm room three days after the April 2013 bombing,
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled against a group of American Samoans who had argued that those born in the U.S. territory in the South Pacific should be eligible for U.S. citizenship at birth. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, noting that both the U.S. government and the government in American Samoa opposed the campaign, rejected the legal
By Scott Malone LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) – From the Mogadishu market to the women in brightly colored veils walking their children to school, Maine’s second-largest city shows the signs of the growing Somali-American community that is making its mark on the former New England mill town. One place in Lewiston where that growing diversity is not evident is the city’s 82-member police force, but Chief Michael Bussiere aims to change
An advisory panel to the FDA has recommended approval of flibanserin, a pill touted by Sprout Pharmaceuticals as a viable treatment for women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder-a persistent lack of desire for sex.
