US TODAY: Slain border agent's family files $25M claim against U.S.

PHOENIX -- The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry filed a $25 million wrongful death claim Wednesday against the federal government, saying he was killed because U.S. investigators allowed murder weapons into the hands of criminals. Terry died Dec. 14, 2010, when his special-operations unit got into a shootout with border bandits in a remote canyon area near Rio Rico. At the scene, investigators found two AK-47s that were traced back to a gun-smuggling probe by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Congressional investigations and Department of Justice records have since revealed that ATF agents allowed as many as 1,400 guns to be transported into Mexico, and that the AK-47s were purchased by a known firearms trafficker. The so-called "gun-walking" strategy...

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Miami Herald to occupy a Memphis-owned building

A Memphis-based commercial real estate firm is exchanging one high-profile tenant in Miami for another, from the U.S. Southern Command headquarters to the Miami Herald. The Miami Herald Media Company has signed a lease for the 158,000-square-foot building SMPO Properties built and opened in Doral in 1997 for $40 million. The newspaper will move its business and news staffs of more than 700 people 12 miles inland from its longtime headquarters on the Atlantic in Downtown Miami to the affluent Doral suburb. SMPO, owned by Oscar Seelbinder, built the building. GPA-I, a special-purpose business entity created for the project, took ownership and leased it to the Southern Command until the military moved out last August. The Southern Command oversees military activity in South and Central...

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Women’s Tennis: WVU Hosts Pitt and Akron

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – The West Virginia women’s tennis team will play host to Pitt on Friday at 3 p.m., as well as Akron on Sunday at 12 p.m., with both matches being held at the Ridgeview Racquet Club. Tina Samara The Mountaineers enter Friday’s tilt against the Panthers with an 0-3 record, but are coming off a loss to No. 9 Virginia in which coach Tina Samara saw strides in the right direction. “We took some positives away from our match against a very tough Virginia team,” says Samara. “We competed on Tuesday, and...

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Spoonhour remembered as basketball 'pied piper'

His college basketball teams won 373 games and, with high school and junior college, the total was just short of 700. But what Charlie Spoonhour really had wanted to do growing up in Rogers, Ark., was to play second base for the Cardinals. Spoonhour, the former Missouri State and St. Louis University coach who died at age 72 in Chapel Hill, N. C., Wednesday after battling a lung affliction for two years, was a Cardinals fan his entire life. He regularly would come to spring training in either St. Petersburg, Fla., or Jupiter, Fla., after whatever team he was coaching had been eliminated from postseason play. Once, after his University of Nevada-Las Vegas club had lost at South Carolina in the NIT, he bolted immediately to the airport, flew to Atlanta, spent the wee hours in the airport there...

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Cricket: Black Caps lose early wickets

Expand Martin Guptill. Photo / Brett PhibbsThe Black Caps have lost two early wickets in the first ODI against Zimbabwe at University Oval in Dunedin today. LIVE SCORING Nicol was dismissed for a duck in the sixth delivery of the match after edging to Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor at first slip off Keegan Meth. New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum, batting a three today, then fell in the second over for just three runs when Kyle Jarvis trapped him LBW, leaving the Black Caps at 4 for two. That introduced Kane Williamson to the crease who joined opener Martin Guptill. Earlier Taylor won the toss and sent New Zealand into bat. New Zealand are playing three debutants today with Dean Brownlie, Tom Latham and Andrew Ellis all...

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Ali's Legendary Trainer Angelo Dundee Dies at 90

n this Jan. 14, 2012, file photo, Muhammad Ali, right, celebrates his 70th birthday next to his longtime trainer Angelo Dundee at a fund raiser for the Muhammad Ali Center in his hometown of Louisville, Ky. (The Muhammad Ali Center/AP Photo) Celebrated boxing trainer Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali's cornerman in his greatest fights, has died at the age of 90. "Angelo died surrounded by family and friends," his family said in a statement. "He was very happy that he got to celebrate Ali's (70th) birthday earlier this year and also that he got to go to the Hall of Fame. The genial trainer got to see his old friend, and reminisce about good times. It was almost as if they were together in their prime again, and what a time that was. Dundee...

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