Contract electronics products manufacturer Plexus Corp. said Wednesday that it has been awarded a contract by the Coca-Cola Co. to help produce a new fountain dispenser capable of dispensing more than 100 different types of soft drinks. Neenah-based Plexus (NASDAQ: PLXS) ...Read More
Colt McCoy fired the cannon. He banged the big drum. Then he left the field to chants of "Colt for Heisman!" There's still plenty of work to do for the quarterback of No. 3 Texas, but for this one last night in ...Read More
Florida's never-ending tobacco litigation continued not to end this week. A woman in South Florida who smoked Benson & Hedges for 25 years sued Philip Morris and was awarded $300 million.
Most of the award - $244 million - was punitive ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO—Tim Lincecum has been so dominant in his first two full major league seasons that even his top bosses don't know how he can get much better.
Two NL Cy Young Awards, a pair of All-Star selections -- all at ...Read More
BRUSSELS -After years of effort the European Union named its first full-time president and powerful foreign policy chief on Thursday — but handed the jobs to two little-known compromise figures instead of global heavy hitters. The choice by national leaders behind ...Read More
After coming within a game of setting an N.H.L. record for road wins to start the season, the Devils have dropped two consecutive road games. Mike Santorelli and Martin Erat scored shootout goals, and Jason Arnott had two goals in regulation ...Read More
SEATTLE - Long considered the best player in the U.S., Landon Donovan is now the best player in Major League Soccer. The Los Angeles Galaxy forward and six-time national player of the year was named the MLS most valuable player on ...Read More
I voted for Adam Wainwright for the National League Cy Young award, but I'm entirely comfortable with Tim Lincecum winning it. The race, as many predicted, was one of the closest in the award's history. I went back and forth among ...Read More
SEATTLE — Los Angeles forward Landon Donovan has been named the Major League Soccer most valuable player after helping to lead the Galaxy to the final for the first time since 2005. Despite all the accolades he's garnered for being the ...Read More
DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Rockies have rewarded manager Jim Tracy with a three-year contract.
The Rockies announced the deal Wednesday, less than an hour after he won the NL Manager of the Year award.
Tracy was promoted from bench coach in ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second straight year, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honor to become the first repeat winner since The wiry right-hander, nicknamed "The ...Read More
NEW YORK - San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second straight year, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honor to become the first repeat ...Read More
NEW YORK -- Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second consecutive season to become the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of ...Read More
T. J. Stiles's sweeping, highly detailed and comprehensive biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, "The First Tycoon," won the nonfiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards in New York. Stiles, a Minnesota native, was born in Foley, Minn., ...Read More
NEW YORK—Zack Greinke fidgeted a bit and spoke softly.
Winning the Cy Young Award brought up a whole lot of unwanted attention.
"A lot of stuff going on today when I usually just like doing nothing," he said. "But just part of ...Read More
AT&T may have lost the legal battle with Verizon Wireless over a marketing campaign that compares the 3G coverage of both carriers. But that doesn't mean AT&T is going away quietly.
The company is airing a commercial of its own, which ...Read More
RICHMOND - Many conversations on the putting green outside the clubhouse at The Houstonian Golf & Country Club this week have been in languages other than English.
Not coincidentally, many of the post-tournament interviews with LPGA tournament champions are somewhat choppy ...Read More
Louisville resident and University of Colorado sophomore Nicole Fox is America's next top model.
Tyra Banks and a panel of judges choose Nicole for the coveted title cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model. Wednesday night on the CW.
The 18-year-old, who ...Read More
Free Press staff writer Jim Schaefer has just finished live-blogging today's hearing on the finances of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in front of Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner. Read the blow-by-blow below.
5:23p.m. | That's all, folks!
After consulting ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - Get lost, Hugh Jackman. This year's "Sexiest Man Alive" is once again Johnny Depp.
Depp nudged aside Jackman to get the coveted endorsement from People magazine Wednesday. It's the 46-year-old actor's second time as "Sexiest Man Alive." ...Read More
TAYLOR, Mich.—A Michigan man has won the world Rock Paper Scissors championship in Toronto. Tim Conrad clinched the title after five hours of play and nine matches at the Steam Whistle Brewery on Saturday night. Facing off against his best friend ...Read More
