MACON, Ga. (AP) — Mike Smith scored 24 points as second-seeded East Tennessee State held off Campbell 54-53 on Wednesday night in an Atlantic Sun Conference tournament quarterfinal.
The Buccaneers (22-10) advance to the semifinals for the fifth consecutive year, the conference's longest active streak. They will face the winner of Thursday night's Jacksonville-North Florida game at 9 p.m. on Friday.
Eric Griffin had 16 points for the Camels …
Scoreboard Tuesday between Bangladesh and England in the second one-day international at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium:
Bangladesh
Tamim Iqbal c Cook b Broad 30
Imrul Kayes c Collingwood b Swann 63
Aftab Ahmed b Brenan 4
Mushfiqur Rahim c Wright b Bresnan 76
Shakib Al Hasan c and b Swann 14
Mahmudullah b Bresnan 27
Naeem Islam not out 18
Suhrawardi Shuvo not out 14
Extras: (5b, 2lb, 7w) 14
TOTAL: (for six wickets) 260
Overs: 50.
Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-56, 3-146, 4-166, 5-211, 6-235.
Did not bat: Abdur Razzak, Shafiul Islam, …
Ancient dances and songs from all corners of Tibet will beperformed tonight at Loyola University's Lake Shore Campus on theNorth Side.
The "Dances from the Roof of the World" show will be performed bythe Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, a troupe founded in 1959 inIndia. Since its founding, the artists of TIPA have worked topreserve and promote their cultural heritage.
The …
BOSTON (AP) — Gay rights groups say they're pleased the oldest Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States has retracted an opinion column suggesting the devil may be responsible for gay attraction.
The column in the Boston archdiocese's The Pilot newspaper was titled "Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction." It was written by an adviser at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It said "scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most …
The state-run news agency says Turkish prosecutors will not start legal proceedings against a politician who spoke Kurdish in parliament in defiance of the law.
In February, Ahmet Turk addressed his party's legislators inside the parliament building in his native language _ an open challenge to the country's restrictions on the Kurdish language.
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PLANS to create a two-storey extension to a special educationneeds unit in Drefach are set to be discussed next Wednesday.
The application, which includes an additional teaching area,residential bedrooms …
CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian authorities on Monday released two Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers but ordered 12 other members of the country's most powerful opposition group detained, police and the group reported.
The two parliament members, Sabri Amer and Ragab Abu Zeid, were not questioned by prosecutors before they were released, police said. They, along with the 12 other members, were arrested Sunday in the northern Nile Delta province of Menoufiya.
But the Middle East News Agency later reported that the Egypt's chief prosecutor asked the parliament for permission to question the two lawmakers. Under Egyptian law, lawmakers are often granted immunity from …
