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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then won a 1957 Oscar with a surprising dramatic turn in “Sayonara,” died Thursday. He was 87.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds and Steve Hoskins were boyhood friends who went into business together and made a lot of money selling autographs of the San Francisco Giants slugger. But the relationship collapsed when Bonds accused Hoskins of stealing from him and took the case to federal prosecutors.

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Israel blasted Beirut’s airport and other Lebanese targets Thursday, bringing its air and naval campaign to the doorsteps of the capital and threatening massive retaliation after guerrilla rockets for the first time reached Israel’s third-largest city, Haifa.

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By NANCY ARMOUR
AP National Writer

SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Michelle Wie is heading the wrong way in her bid to make history. Again.

Trying for a fifth time to become the first woman since 1945 to make a cut in a PGA Tour event, the 16-year-old instead found trouble everywhere she turned Thursday in the first round of the John Deere Classic. Off the tee. On the green. In the sand. In the water. In the weeds. And in the woods – several times.

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PARIS, July 13 (Reuters) – A French lawyer plans to ask a court to intervene in the controversy over Zinedine Zidane’s sending-off in the World Cup final.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. – Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has developed a severe case of laminitis, a potentially fatal disease caused by uneven weight distribution in the limbs, and his veterinarian called his chances for survival “a long shot.”

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By TONI LOCY

WASHINGTON Jul 13, 2006 (AP)— The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career.

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart is moving away from what it called a zero-tolerance policy on prosecuting shoplifters and will now only prosecute anyone caught taking merchandise worth $25 or more, according to a published report.

The New York Times reports the change in policy, citing internal documents from Wal-Mart that say it will now only press charges against those between the ages of 18 and 64 who take at least $25 worth of goods. Formerly its policy was to press charges against anyone who took at least $3 in goods.

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Gibbs Technologies, a high-speed amphibian (HSA) technology specialist, has unveiled a prototype of what it says will be the first commercially viable high-speed amphibian quadbike/all terrain vehicle (ATV), the Quadski.

The Quadski represents the third demonstration of Gibbs’ HSA technology, following in the tire tracks of its Aquada and Humdinga vehicles. The Quadski is capable of travelling up to 50 mph on land and water and makes the transition, according to the company, at the flick of a switch.

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Christie Brinkley is a woman of such undeniable beauty that Billy Joel wrote Uptown Girl about her. Then Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley divorced, and Joel wrote the as-yet-unreleased song Look What You’ve Done You Terrible Cow.

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TheLinuxStore.ca has started a new project. A project that will give away free Linux disks of your favorite distribution (SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, Debian, Knoppix). Have a look, give feedback, donate to the cause, request a disk.

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We have seen a black player integrate the Major Leagues, back when blacks were called Negros, eight years before “Brown vs. Board of Education.”

We have seen basketball go from a peach-basket game in Massachusetts to a passion throughout most of the world.

We have seen a self-coined Cablinasian named Tiger dominate golf and a pair of African-American sisters from Compton dominate tennis — and golf and tennis were thought to be like winter in Buffalo: endlessly white.

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