LONDON -- HIT Entertainment in September appointed two industry veterans to senior management positions. Patricia Wyatt was named president of HIT North America. In her new role, Wyatt will be responsible for expanding existing HIT properties such as Bob the Builder and Barney as well as launching new content. Wyatt...
LJUBLJANA AFP — Harrah's Entertainment of the United States and Slovenia's Hit Group are suspending talks on construction of a 750-million-euro (1.17-billion-dollar) entertainment park in western Slovenia, the Hit Group said in a statement Wednesday. "The two companies concluded that they could not find a solution that would meet...
Aug. 10 1971 -- Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins hit his 500th home run in the first inning off Baltimore's Mike Cuellar to become the 10th player to hit 500 or more in a career. Killebrew also hit No. 501 off Cuellar but the Orioles won...
Contestants aren't the only ones who can hit the jackpot on ABC's hit "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." Contestants aren't the only ones who can hit the jackpot on ABC's hit "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
Used Trucks May Have Hit BottomRE: Used Trucks May Have Hit Bottomused cars may really hit rock bottom because of the latest cars and trucks that are more efficient , esp. hybrid trucks that could save us money and has the best fuel milage the best thing that should do...
June 2 1928 -- Les Bell of the Boston Braves hit three home runs and a triple at Braves Field, but the Cincinnati Reds won 20-12. 1928 -- The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1. All the runs came from three pinch-hit homers....
OREM -- Even though Mountain View is off to an impressive 6-1 start to the 2007 baseball season, coach Chris Cooper wants a little more consistency from his Bruins at the plate and wants to see a few more balls hit the opposite way. In Mountain View's 11-3...
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (7:05 p.m. EDT). Milwaukee's Ben Sheets is coming off an 18-strikeout performance against the Braves. STARS Wednesday --Matthew LeCroy, Twins, hit a pinch-hit grand slam in the ninth inning to lead Minnesota to a 6-5 victory over Toronto. ...
A WOMAN was being quizzed by police last night after a holidaymaker was left dying by a hit and run driver in a country lane. The 22-year-old victim died in hospital after being hit by a Ford Escort as he walked to a campsite near Newquay, Cornwall,...
ENGLEWOOD - Denver safety John Lynch wasn't in the mood to talk about his big hit on San Francisco tight end Billy Bajema last Saturday. Upset about speculation the NFL might punish him, Lynch emphatically said his hit was not illegal. "I think it's...
Sept. 19 1997 -- Mark McGwire hit his 54th homer and became the first major leaguer to hit 20 or more homers for two teams in the same season. 1998 -- Seattle's Alex Rodriguez hit his 40th homer to become the third player in baseball...
PROVO -- The Mountain View Bruins and Provo Bulldogs opened Region 7 baseball Tuesday with a taste of how most league games are likely going to be. A hit here or a hit there, or ball hit 1 foot one way or the other, or a key pitch...
GRAND TIME IN BOSTON J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell each hit grand slams against Kansas City, becoming the first Red Sox players to hit grand slams in the same game at Fenway Park since Tony Armas and Bill Buckner did it Aug. 7, 1984. The last time...
SANTA CLARA -- Jeff Garcia still is waiting for that first hit, the initiation of a new season, the reminder of the peril a quarterback regularly faces in the NFL. The San Francisco 49ers' starting quarterback insists this year's first hit carries with it no greater significance...
Environmental justice feels like a late hit -- a very late hit -- to a manufacturer who has al1 of her city, air and other permits for a vital plant upgrade, and then gets hit with a civil rights appeal to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. EJ feels like a...
Police and the family of a renowned entomologist killed by a hit- and-run driver are hoping for a Christmas miracle. Someone must have seen the crash. Someone must have seen 80-year- old Robert Elbel standing in the darkness of Highland Drive when a vehicle bucked the retired university...
PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA approved the use of AngiomaxR bivalirudin in patients with or at risk of HIT/HITTS -- heparin-induced thrombocytopenia HIT and thrombosis syndrome HITTS -- undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention PCI.
KANATA, Ontario -- Anaheim Ducks general manager Brian Burke accepts Chris Pronger's suspension but doesn't think Pronger was the worst villain of Game 3. "The most dangerous play in the game was not Chris Pronger's hit on Dean McAmmond," Burke said. "It was Chris Neil's hit...
It was just minutes before the start of our daily morning meeting when someone called from the outside and told us to check CNN. A plane had just hit the World Trade Center in New York. By the time we got to the TV, the second plane had hit....
ENGLEWOOD - The NFL didn't fine Denver Broncos safety John Lynch for his hit on Kansas City Chiefs receiver Eddie Kennison, but the league didn't admit to an officiating error either. Lynch was given a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Kennison in the...
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