against New Zealand tomorrow. The event will raise money for Nixon's benefit fund and designated charities, including the Air Ambulance and Leukaemia Research. Nixon is familiar with the venue for his benefit game as he opened the sports pavilion in Fitz

were just going through the motions.So maybe there was more than just a hint of desperation in the air when Jackson went off against the NBA the other day, accusing the league of engaging in a witch hunt against his superstar player.Jackson hadnt had a

A possible last-minute witness emerged as the city anxiously watched a grand jury weighing the case of five police officers who unleashed a 50-bullet barrage that killed an unarmed man on his wedding day, authorities said. The grand jurors were to

grow up in the criminal justice system does not mean you will die in it.Marshall had his first brush with the law at age 9 and had to appear before juvenile Judge Barry Brown. By age 11, he was a member of a local gang in Gallatin which resulted

team in 2007 with two new drivers. Team boss Ron Dennis describes it as a 'breath of fresh air.' Hamilton, who is the sport's first black driver, has won the GP2 and F3 championships the past two years. Alonso knows there is more than just the car and

speed - the combination of man and thoroughbred horse racing at 35 mph for two miles over 4-foot-tall brush and timber jumps.And this Williamson County-reared 29-year-old will tell you, he's been hooked ever since. 'Racing has been the hardest thing I've

NEW YORK - A gunman shot and killed a pizza parlor employee and two unarmed volunteer police officers who pursued him, then was shot to death by other officers in a series of shootings in a crowded Manhattan neighborhood Wednesday, the mayor said. The