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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Japan faces soaring number of feared dead

Reporting from Tokyo, Koriyama and Fukushima, The number of missing and feared dead in Japan's epic earthquake soared Sunday as a reeling nation struggled to contain an unprecedented nuclear crisis, pluck people in tsunami-inundated areas to safety, quell raging blazes and provide aid to hundreds of thousands of frightened people left homeless and dazed.

A police chief in the battered Miyagi prefecture told disaster relief officials that he expected the death t....

NFL owners express disappointment

A day after the NFL Players Assn. decertified as a union, and the NFL officially locked out its players, several team owners Saturday issued statements expressing their disappointment that the labor fight has gone this far.

"I am very disappointed that we were not successful in reaching an agreement," Pittsburgh Steelers President Art Rooney II said, adding, "The NFL owners pu....