Oklahoma regulator to CSBS board

Mick Thompson, Oklahoma bank commissioner, has been named a member-at-large on the Conference of State …

England vs. South Africa Scoreboard

Scoreboard at the end of play in the second one-day international against England at Trent Bridge on Tuesday:

South Africa Innings

Graeme Smith c Prior b Broad 9

Herschelle Gibbs c Prior b Broad 10

Jacques Kallis c Shah b Broad 6

AB de Villiers lbw b Flintoff 5

JP Duminy c Prior b Broad 8

Mark Boucher c Prior b Flintoff 10

Johan Botha c Prior b Broad 1

Albie Morkel c Prior b Harmison 6

Andre Nel c Wright b Harmison 13

Dale Steyn b Flintoff 6

Makhaya Ntini not out 0

Extras: (1lb, 8w) 9

TOTAL: (all out) 83

Overs: …

Marines battle Taliban in searing heat: ; Insurgents likely captured American soldier missing Tuesday, U.S. military says

NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat andtook fire from small pockets of militants after landing in thisTaliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homesand crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation underPresident Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.

Elsewhere, the U.S. military announced that insurgents werebelieved to have captured an American soldier missing in easternAfghanistan on Tuesday. The missing soldier was not involved inOperation Khanjar, or "Strike of the Sword," under way in southernAfghanistan.

The southern offensive was launched shortly after 1 a.m.Thursday, as thousands of Marines …

Gonzales Rejects Calls for Resignation

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rejected growing calls for his resignation Tuesday as scores of newly released documents detailed a two-year campaign by the Justice Department and White House to purge federal prosecutors.

Gonzales acknowledged his department mishandled the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys and misled Congress about how they were fired. He said he was ultimately to blame for those "mistakes" but stood by the firings.

"I acknowledge that mistakes were made here," Gonzales told reporters at a news briefing after he canceled an out-of-town trip. "I accept that responsibility." He promised changes "so that the mistakes that occurred in this …

Lightning-Jets Sums

Tampa Bay	0 1 1—2
Winnipeg	2 2 1—5

First Period_1, Winnipeg, Kane 6 (Byfuglien, Burmistrov), 4:51. 2, Winnipeg, Byfuglien 3 (Kane), 13:02. Penalties_Kane, Wpg (high-sticking), 9:22; Stuart, Wpg (slashing), 17:21.

Second Period_3, Winnipeg, Flood 3 (Stapleton, Little), 7:49 (pp). 4, Tampa Bay, St. Louis 4 (Stamkos, Lecavalier), 10:47. 5, Winnipeg, Ladd 5 (Oduya, Wellwood), 12:14. Penalties_Bogosian, Wpg (holding, unsportsmanlike conduct), 1:51; Downie, TB (hooking), 6:40; Oduya, …

Fidel Castro to appear on Cuban television program

Fidel Castro is back.

The aging revolutionary leader will appear Monday Cuba's key public affairs television program, according to a front-page headline in the Communist-party newsletter Granma. It may be the most prominent appearance by the former president since he fell ill in 2006.

Castro, 83, was set to discuss his concerns about the Middle East on the Mesa Redonda _ or Round Table _ a daily talk show about current events that is usually transmitted live on state media and seen across the island.

"This afternoon, special Mesa Redonda with Fidel," blares the headline.

The announcement did not specify if Monday's program would …

Moussaoui spared execution, sentenced to life in prison

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui escaped the death penalty Wednesday as a jury decided he deserved life in prison instead for his role in the bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history. "America, you lost," Moussaoui taunted.

After seven days of deliberation, the nine men and three women rebuffed the government's appeal for death for the only person charged in this country in the four suicide jetliner hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.

Three jurors said Moussaoui had only limited knowledge of the Sept. 11 plot, and three described his role in the attacks as minor, if he had any role at all.

Moussaoui, as he was led …