Cowboys, Eagles In NFC East Battle: Rob Ryan Has Improved Dallas Defense

IRVING, Texas -- Within a few days of working for Rob Ryan, the defensive players on the Dallas Cowboys were thrilled with their new boss.

They fed off the energy and excitement he showed in meetings and on the practice field. They were certain his exotic schemes were exactly what was needed to turn the worst defense in franchise history into one of the NFL's best.

Then Ryan did what members of his family do. He shared some of his confidence with reporters.

Tired of hearing about the juggernaut the Philadelphia Eagles were putting together, Ryan said: "I don't know if we win the all-hype team. I think that might have gone to somebody else, but we're going to beat their (rear) when we play them."

While some of his players may have felt that way, too, they weren't about to say it.

"We were like, 'Rob, what the (heck) are you doing?' We don't know you, man. You can't come in here and do that,'" linebacker Bradie James said.

At the time, it seemed as if Ryan was just keeping up the family tradition of talking big, like his twin brother Rex and his dad, Buddy.

Now, with the teams preparing to meet Sunday night, that bulletin-board material looks awfully clever.

Ryan's play-calling and personality has transformed Dallas into the top-ranked defense in the NFC. The Eagles, meanwhile, are 2-4 and looking up at the Cowboys (3-3) and everyone else in the NFC East.

Ryan's early August braggadocio hasn't been forgotten by either team, and is certain to be played up during the national, prime-time broadcast. It adds another layer to a rivalry once fueled by Rob's dad, and to a matchup filled with ramifications for both teams.

"We've got your back," James told Ryan this week, before challenging his boss to make sure the unit is ready for big-play threats Michael Vick, LeSean McCoy and DeSean Jackson.

Ryan's response?

"Shoot yeah! You know I'm up! I'm drinking Red Bulls all night!" James said in a Ryan-esque voice.

Through six games, the Cowboys have adopted the personality of their sideline leader, save for the long, stringy hair and oversized belly.

Using exotic formations and an aggressive mindset, Dallas is allowing the fewest yards rushing in the NFL.

Only five teams allow fewer yards per play. Nobody has scored a touchdown in the first quarter against the Cowboys; they've given up just nine points in the opening period. They also recently held New England to 17 points, shattering the Patriots' streak of 13 straight games with at least 30 points.

And, to think, they're doing this with virtually the same group of guys who last season allowed more points and yards than any of the 50 previous Dallas defenses.

"I give him 100 percent credit," star linebacker DeMarcus Ware said. "He always talks about the players go out there and make the plays, but he gets out there and gives us the opportunity to do that."

The Eagles present a fascinating challenge.

Because of McCoy and Vick, Philadelphia has the top rushing attack in the NFL. The Eagles are also coming off a bye, and coach Andy Reid is 12-0 when given an extra week to prepare for a foe.

Then again, Philadelphia is 0-2 at home and has lost five straight there, counting the playoffs. The Cowboys also have beaten the Eagles in four of the past five meetings, counting the playoffs.

Philadelphia's lone recent win over Dallas included Jackson catching four passes for 210 yards, including a 91-yard touchdown that he punctuated by stopping just shy of the end zone and tipping over the goal line.

That was among many big plays the Cowboys' secondary gave up last season, which is partly why team owner Jerry Jones tried to sign the top free agent cornerback on the market, Nnamdi Asomugha; he went to the Eagles instead, part of the supposed "Dream Team" they were putting together over the summer.

Ryan and Jones were seen on cell phones on the playing field during the negotiations for Asomugha. Everyone saw it, including Terence Newman, the starter who was most likely to have been dumped had a deal been struck.

It's a safe bet that Ryan will have him motivated Sunday.

"If you don't get up playing for Rob, then you just don't have a passion for football," said Mike Jenkins, the other starting cornerback. "He has a lot of confidence on what he has, and that's what builds confidence on the team."

James said the Cowboys have seen ? and heard ? all sorts of things from Ryan this season. They can't help but laugh and keep listening because he's gotten so much out of them.

Even back in early August, James had been around Ryan enough to not be too surprised about what Ryan said about the Eagles. That doesn't mean he liked it.

"I'm like, 'Rob? You picked the Eagles?! C'mon, man, pick St. Louis!'" James said, laughing. "But, here we are. It's time to play ball."

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Incomes stall as interest on savings dwindles (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Americans' incomes have stagnated for three straight months. Yet they boosted their spending in September 0.6 percent ? three times the increase in August.

Under normal circumstances, that would be a troubling sign for the economy.

But a closer look at Friday's report from the Commerce Department on September income and spending suggests another possibility: Many people are cutting their savings because the interest they are earning has become nearly worthless.

Consumers earned only 0.1 percent last month. And after adjusting for inflation, their after-tax incomes fell 0.1 percent last month ? the third straight monthly decline.

But the decline was largely because of a 1.4 percent drop in interest income last month, the third sharp monthly drop. Wages and salaries increased 0.3 percent in September.

Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said the report could signal that there is a transfer of income from those who saved to those with high debts, which could result in more spending by consumers.

"The sharp decline in the saving rate doesn't concern us quite as much as it did, since it is possible that it partly reflects a sharp decline in debt servicing costs," Ashworth said.

Consumer spending is closely watched because it accounts for 70 percent of economic activity. A sharp rise in spending over the summer helped fuel annual growth of 2.5 percent in the July-September quarter, the best quarterly expansion in a year.

Still, the economy would have to grow at nearly double the third-quarter pace to make a dent in the unemployment rate, which has stayed near 9 percent since the recession officially ended more than two years ago.

In recent months, job growth has stagnated. Employers have added an average of only 72,000 jobs per month in the past five months. That's far below the 100,000 per month needed to keep up with population growth. And it's down from an average of 180,000 in the first four months of this year.

Employers added only 103,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate remained 9.1 percent for a third straight month.

The government releases the October employment report on Nov. 4.

And spending could tumble next year if Congress fails to extend a Social Security tax cut, which gave most Americans an extra $1,000 to $2,000 this year, or long-term unemployment benefits. Both expire at the end of the year.

The spending increases in September included a 2.2 percent jump in purchases of durable goods, reflecting strong car sales during the month. Sales of non-durable goods such as clothing were also up a solid 1.1 percent while purchases of services such as rent and utility payments edged up 0.2 percent.

Inflation, as measured by a price gauge tied to consumer spending, edged up 0.2 percent in September. But core inflation, which excludes food and energy, showed no gain at all. That left core inflation rising at a moderate 1.6 percent over the last 12 months.

Many economists worry that consumers won't be able to keep spending like they did this summer without earning more. For spending gains to be sustained, employers need to step up hiring.

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Iranian actress freed from prison on reduced sentence (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the 2009 Australian film "My Tehran for Sale," which is banned in Iran.

In the movie -- which was filmed in the Iranian capital -- Vafamehr is seen with a shaved head, and without the head covering that's required of Iranian women. In one scene, she also appears to drink alcohol -- also a no-no in her culture.

According to Amnesty International, the appeals court reduced Vafamehr's sentence to three months, and removed the lashing aspect of her sentence.

Vafamehr was arrested in early July.

In the film, Vafamehr plays an actress who is forced to live a secret life.

When news of the arrest broke, the film's producers, Julie Ryan and Kate Croser, expressed their "deep shock and sadness at the sentence imposed by the Iranian government" in a statement to TheWrap. They also emphasized that Vafamehr's participation in the film "was limited to her role as an actress, and she was not in any other way involved in the behind-the-scenes filmmaking."

While Vafamehr has been freed, Amnesty International points out that Iran has been cracking down on filmmakers. Hadi Afarideh, Naser Saffarian, Mohsen Shahrnazdar and Katayoun Shahabi were arrested September 17 on suspicion of having sold their films to foreign broadcasters. Doing so without permission from the government is prohibited in Iran; recently, the country's police chief, Esma'il Ahmadi-Moghaddam, equated dealings with the BBC and Voice of America with conspiring with enemy security services, Amnesty International said.

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Religion News in Brief (AP)

Rules for Nebraska counselors still mired in gay debate

LINCOLN, Neb. ? A coalition of social workers, psychologists and family therapists demanded Monday that the state adopt rules that would require certain mental health professionals to offer referrals to gay patients if they refuse to treat them because of religious beliefs.

Terry Werner, who heads the Nebraska chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, said such referrals are already required in the code of ethics that governs each profession in the group. But he said the state's Division of Public Health has yet to adopt the same language for so-called licensed independent mental health practitioners, a position the Legislature created in 2007.

The new independent position allows qualified mental health practitioners who serve as counselors, social workers and therapists to diagnose and treat mental illnesses without formal medical supervision. Werner said the proposed regulations have sat untouched by the Division of Public Health since mid-2010.

The coalition has filed a petition demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services advance the rules.

Without such rules, the practitioners have "no formal guidance regarding their profession," the petition states. "Since the Legislature's creation of this category of professionals in 2007, there have been no rules or regulations governing these professionals."

Jim Cunningham, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, has said psychologists, therapists and other licensed counselors should be able to refuse to treat clients because of religious or moral convictions and not have to refer them to another therapist. Their concern rose largely from an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that allowed same-sex marriage, raising the prospect that gay couples could come to Nebraska therapists for marriage counseling.

Cunningham has said the addition of sexual orientation to anti-discrimination professional ethics requirements makes it unclear whether that's allowed.

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Before-school Bible study group sues Owasso Public Schools for alleged civil rights violations

OWASSO, Okla. (AP) ? A before-school Bible study group has sued Owasso Public Schools, claiming the department censored the group's flyers and handouts.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Tulsa by the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of Owasso Kids for Christ. It alleges the school unconstitutionally prohibits the group from distributing religious flyers, from taking part in an open house and from using the school's public address system.

The plaintiffs argue that groups such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and YMCA are allowed such access.

School Superintendent Clark Ogilvie said on the district's website that the issue is "misconstrued and taken out of context." He said the district doesn't deny religious groups access to the schools ? but said they must follow school policies.

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Attorney: SC school district counseled on church-state separation; Christian rapper returns

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Leaders of a South Carolina school district where a Christian-themed rally was held at a middle school were counseled about the First Amendment's separation of church and state, said an attorney who met with them.

The Christian rapper who performed last month at a daytime rally at New Heights Middle School in Chesterfield County is coming back this week to two high schools for nighttime events, the lawyer said in a letter to a group that complained about the event.

"They say they are committed to following the First Amendment," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation. "But it seems they are turning this school district into a worship center."

Public schools do not exclude student religious groups from meeting on school property before or after school hours, but the events are supposed to be student-led and organized.

Attorney David Duff of Columbia sent a letter to the foundation after it complained about a Sept. 1 rally during the school day that featured the Christian rapper who calls himself B-SHOC and youth evangelist Christian Chapman. Duff met with District Superintendent John Williams, school board members and New Heights Middle School principal Larry Stinson.

"I believe that all concerned now have a full understanding of the interplay between the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the principle of separation of church and state in the public school context," Duff wrote. He also said the First Amendment principles would be reviewed when administrators next meet as a group.

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Man gets at least 16 years for central Pa. burglary spree that hit more than 2 dozen churches

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) ? A central Pennsylvania man has been ordered to spend more than 16 years in prison for burglarizing more than two dozen churches in a little more than two months in 2008.

Michael Scott Wissler, 40, called his burglary spree "inexcusable" at his sentencing hearing Tuesday in Lancaster County Court. He pleaded guilty in September.

Wissler told the court he was trying to support a serious heroin addiction when he committed 44 break-ins over the course of 63 days. More than 30 of the burglaries were at churches, the rest at other businesses.

Wissler was ordered to pay back $72,000 in damage and losses.

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PFT: Lions' Stafford appears ready to start

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Last year, Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman threw 25 touchdown passes and only six interceptions.? This year, he has seven touchdowns and 10 picks through seven games.

The Bucs are on their bye, and they?re trying to improve Freeman?s performance.? To the likely delight of their upcoming opponents, they?re also telling the world what they?ll be doing.

According to the folks at PewterReport.com, Freeman and a couple of his coaches spoke to reporters on Wednesday about the perceived causes of the problems and the intended solutions.

First, Freeman has been throwing too often from his back foot, without stepping into his throws.? Second, Freeman has been unable to find running lanes when pressured.

?I?m not the fastest guy in the world,? Freeman said.? ?If I have an open running lane then I?m going to run the ball. I?ve not had a chance to get out. The one time I tried to scramble versus the Bears I got run down by an end and ended up having to throw it away. It?s a part that if it?s there to do and we can do something with it, then I am going to do it.? But the lanes just haven?t been there.?

The lanes haven?t been there because opponents have tried to take them away. ??They?re running some stunts and different things underneath that really take away the rush lanes for the quarterback,? Freeman said.? ?Also they?ve spied me a little bit and it?s by design and that?s how the league is.? You do something successfully and the defense is going to start to do stuff to take it away.?

Coach Raheem Morris also thinks Freeman has been forcing it at times.? ?Last year he simply did a better job of going through his progressions throughout the whole process,? Morris said.? ?Right now he?s probably playing his number in fantasy football because he?s trying to throw touchdowns.? Sometimes it?s okay to throw to check-downs; sometimes it?s okay to go through your progressions.? Right now he has a little too much confidence in what he?s doing with his arm and forcing some things in there.? We?re in a game and we threw four interceptions. If we don?t throw some of those interceptions we?ve got a chance to win it.?

Freeman?s struggles are typical to many young quarterbacks who enjoy early success.? Whether it?s Freeman or Matthew Stafford or Sam Bradford, defenses come up with ways to confound them by cracking the code to their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies on film.

That?s what makes the largely overlooked 2011 performance of Aaron Rodgers even more impressive.? In his fourth season as a starter, defenses have ample ammunition to figure out how to shut him down.? And they can?t.

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Watch: Jon Huntsman on ABC's Top Line, Part 1 (ABC News)

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Apple releases another update for the Apple TV, reset all settings before updating

 

Apple has released another update for the Apple TV, this one is numbered 4.4.2.? It appears that Apple has been having some strange problems with recent Apple TV updates with widespread reports of devices having to be restored using iTunes after the 4.4 and...

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Will Ferrell wins Mark Twain prize

WASHINGTON?? Will Ferrell, who refined his impersonation of President George W. Bush on the sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" and later took his presidential act to Broadway, was awarded the nation's top humor prize Sunday night.

The TV star went on to make movies and co-found the popular website FunnyorDie.com in a career that won the 44-year-old the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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It was the Bush impression, though, that might have made the Washington crowd laugh ? and cringe ? the hardest Sunday.

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"Washington is not a city much known for its comedy ? at least not the intentional kind," said PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill, who mentored Ferrell on his journalistic skills for the movie "Anchorman."

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She introduced a clip of Ferrell playing Bush in "You're Welcome, America: A Final Night with George W. Bush" on Broadway. Dressed in a flight suit under a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" in a mock Oval Office he explained how Morocco had sent a special unit of 2,000 trained monkeys to fight terrorism "and make children laugh."

With that kind of comedy, Ferrell had accomplished something amazing, Ifill said.

"He got Democrats to pay and see and applaud George W. Bush," she said.

Conan O'Brien, Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Ben Stiller and Billie Joe Armstrong from the rock band Green Day performed Sunday in Ferrell's honor, joined by Molly Shannon, Tim Meadows and Andy Samberg from Ferrell's "SNL" days.

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The show was taped for broadcast Oct. 31 on PBS stations nationwide.

Black opened the show with a song-and-dance routine for his friend and tried to lead the crowd in chanting "Will, Will, Will, will rock you."

"Will Ferrell, did you notice how I changed it from 'We Will Rock You?'" he said.

"It's about time he got some official Washington, D.C., props," Black said, noting that Ferrell had "reigned supreme" on "SNL" for seven years. "He's crazy funny. He makes you laugh so hard you cry and pee simultaneously."

O'Brien saluted Ferrell for giving so much of himself to his comedy. He said Ferrell had his sides physically softened and his "buttocks lowered with magnets" to prepare his body for spandex routines and at times streaking naked.

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"Will magnifies and celebrates his flaws, just to entertain us," O'Brien said.

O'Brien also thanked Ferrell for being his first guest and his last guest when he was host of NBC's "Tonight Show."

"It's a rare friend who's going to stick with you for five-and-a-half months," he said.

Shannon, who met Ferrell while she was a waitress in Los Angeles, said that contrary to his TV persona, Ferrell is very serious and sweet to work with. As for the award, she joked "Will's agents and manager clearly bought this for him."

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Some of Ferrell's famous sketches from "SNL" were played on the big screen, including his "Cow Bell" routine with Christopher Walken and "Craig the Spartan Cheerleader."

When he was finally awarded the prize, a bronze bust of Twain, Ferrell promptly dropped it on stage and tried to pick up the broken pieces. He joked that he had turned the prize down 13 times before but decided to accept this time because of the prize money (there isn't any) and to be watched on PBS "by hundreds of people across this country."

He thanked the Kennedy Center as "one of the few places that uphold comedy as what it truly is, an art form."

Ferrell is the son of a teacher and Roy Lee Ferrell, a guitarist for the Righteous Brothers. He grew up in Irvine, California, went to college at the University of Southern California and got his start in comedy with the Los Angeles improv group, The Groundlings.

That's where he was discovered by "SNL."

Ferrell went on to make some outlandish movies including "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" and "Old School." He has also tried his hand at drama, including this year's independent film "Everything Must Go." One of his upcoming projects is a Spanish-language comedy, "Casa de Mi Padre."

Ferrell told The Associated Press he has tried different avenues as movie studio budgets tightened. He opted for projects with smaller budgets but more creative freedom.

Longtime collaborator Adam McKay and Ferrell also took their comedy to the Internet with the 2007 creation of the popular video website FunnyorDie.com. Since then, it has drawn an audience of millions for its original Web programming.

McKay, a former head writer on "SNL," said it was Ferrell's "Cow Bell" sketch that has always made him laugh the hardest.

Before the show, Ferrell said playing the Bush character is one of his favorite memories for its political laughs, especially when he took the character to Broadway.

"We hit it at the perfect time when people wanted some sort of comedy after the eight years we just went through," he said.

Thirteen other people have won the Mark Twain Prize since 1998, including Tina Fey, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg. It recognizes people who have followed the tradition of Samuel Clemens, the writer known as Mark Twain who used social commentary and satire to have an impact on society.

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Wild night for Jackson as Cardinals lose 4-0 (AP)

ARLINGTON, Texas ? For Edwin Jackson, the mound in Texas really was the wild, wild West.

Jackson walked seven ? the most in a World Series game in 14 years ? and Mike Napoli followed the last two free passes with a three-run homer on reliever Mitchell Boggs' first pitch to give the Rangers and Derek Holland a 4-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday night.

"It's just a matter of time before they catch up with you," Jackson said.

Instead of sending Chris Carpenter to the mound against C.J. Wilson on Monday night with a chance to clinch their 11th title, the Cardinals find themselves in the first World Series since 2003 that's tied at two games apiece. That ensures a return to Busch Stadium for Game 6 on Wednesday.

"If you want to choose somebody from the St. Louis Cardinals to pitch that game, it's Chris," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. "We love playing behind him because we know he's going to compete as hard as he can. He's got a lot to compete with."

A night after piling up 16 runs and 15 hits, the Cardinals had two hits ? their fewest in the Series since Boston's Jim Lonborg one-hit them in Game 2 in 1967. Holland pitched 8 1-3 innings and Neftali Feliz finished the 19th Series two-hitter, sending the Cardinals to the biggest Series one-game drop in runs since the 1936 Yankees beat the Giants 18-4 in Game 2 at the Polo Grounds, then won 2-1 at Yankee Stadium the next day.

"It was just a great performance," said Lance Berkman, who singled and doubled for both St. Louis hits. "That's why they say momentum is only as good as the next day's starting pitcher."

A night after tying World Series records with three home runs, five hits and six RBIs, Albert Pujols was 0 for 4 ? batting with no one on base his first three times up, then flying out against Feliz with two on for the second out in the ninth.

"I thought he put a nice stroke on the ball with Feliz. He hits that ball in the gap, we might have some fun," La Russa said. "They worked us over. Nobody centered the ball except Lance."

Berkman went 2 for 3 and improved to 7 for 15 (.467) in this World Series and 12 for 28 (.429) overall in Series play, including his appearance for Houston in 2005.

Jackson has had a wild streak throughout his career. He walked eight in his third major league start, at San Francisco in 2003. He then matched that on June 25 last year, when he finished one shy of the record for walks in a no-hitter as he pitched Arizona over Tampa Bay 1-0.

Hits weren't much of a problem. Jackson allowed three in 5 1-3 innings ? including none after the second. He went to three-ball counts on four of his first 10 batters with the help of some long outs ? four flyouts at or just in front of the warning track. He threw just 59 of 109 pitches for strikes.

"I thought he pitched really well," La Russa said. "He missed a few times, walked a couple guys, but he kept making pitches. Overall I give him a huge plus for keeping us in the game."

The seven walks were three shy of the Series record, set by the New York Yankees' Bill Bevens in Game 4 in 1947 against the Brooklyn Dodgers. No one had walked seven in the Series since Florida's Livan Hernandez had eight in Game 5 in 1997 against Cleveland.

Jackson said he felt squeezed by plate umpire Ron Kulpa.

"When you're all over the place, you can't always expect to get close pitches," Jackson said.

Berkman also said the strike zone helped Holland at times.

"Especially early, he got some borderline pitches, though. If they go the other way, it might make a difference," Berkman said. "But you don't want to take anything away from the job that he did. Just a great pitching performance."

Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre made a leaping catch on Rafael Furcal's liner to start the game. It turned out to be that kind of night for the Cardinals.

Texas, which has not lost consecutive games since Aug. 23-25 against Boston, was ahead after 10 pitches from Jackson. That ended the Cardinals' streak of scoring first in 10 straight postseason games, one short of the record set by Detroit from 1972-84.

Elvis Andrus singled sharply to left with one out and Josh Hamilton, just 1 for 12 (.083) coming in, doubled down the right field line.

Mitch Moreland, inserted at first base after Napoli's struggles on Saturday, wound up helping to save a run in the second. Berkman doubled to the right-center gap with one out and, after David Freese struck out, Yadier Molina hit a grounder off the front of the mound. Second baseman Ian Kinsler ranged to the shortstop side of the bag, gloved the ball and made an off-balance throw to first, where Moreland scooped it.

With his pitch count climbing, Jackson walked Nelson Cruz and David Murphy with one out in the sixth. Napoli greeted Boggs by sending a 95 mph fastball just inside the left-field foul pole, about 10 rows deep.

"I think he was ready to hit. I was aggressive, trying to go right at him, and one ran in on him," Boggs said. "I left it up and he was able to get out in front of it."

In their first-row seats, former President George W. Bush and Rangers CEO Nolan Ryan exchanged a high-five. On the mound, Boggs grimaced.

"Now it's a best out of three. See who can win two games," Pujols said. "At the end, that's who is going to be raising the trophy. It's not going to be easy."

NOTES: Bush, a former Rangers owner, threw the ceremonial first pitch to Ryan, the Hall of Fame pitcher. Bush stood in front of the rubber, and his ball went over the right-handed batter's box, bounced off Ryan's catcher's mitt and glanced off a photographer. Rangers manager Ron Washington and players heckled Ryan. ... Twenty-two of 40 teams to win Game 4 and tie the Series at 2 have gone on to the championship. The Series had not been 2-all since 2003, when the Marlins overcame a 2-1 deficit to beat the Yankees in six games. ... For the second time in three years, baseball and NFL teams from the same cities met on the day of a World Series game, with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the St. Louis Rams 34-7 across the street. In 2009, the Yankees won 7-4 at the Phillies as the Eagles routed the Giants 40-17 across the street in Philadelphia.

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Netflix to provide service to the UK, Ireland

LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) ? Netflix Inc. plans to offer its online subscription service to the United Kingdom and Ireland starting early next year, providing access to movies and television shows.

The company said Monday that subscribers will get unlimited TV shows and movies streaming online to their televisions and computers, Macs, tablets and cellular phones for a monthly fee.

The Los Gatos, Calif.-based company, which will report its third-quarter financial results after the stock market closes on Monday, said details about pricing, content and supported devices will be disclosed closer to launch.

Netflix started streaming to the U.S. in 2007 and added Canada in 2010 and 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in September. The company has more than 25 million members in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

Those in the U.K. or Ireland interested in the service can sign up at Netflix's web site to receive an email alert that will let them know when the service has launched, the company said.

Netflix has faced criticism lately due to a recent price increase and a failed attempt to split up its video subscription service. Netflix boosted prices for combination packages of DVDs-by-mail and Internet video streaming by as much as 60 percent, effective Sept. 1. After the higher prices kicked in, CEO Reed Hastings announced a plan to spin off the DVD rental side into a separate website called Qwikster. The move was so reviled by subscribers that Hastings changed his mind within three weeks.

Netflix's stock has dropped by 60 percent since the price increases were announced in mid-July. The sell-off has wiped out $9 billion in shareholder wealth.

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Argentine president heads for landslide victory

Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez votes during general elections in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez appeared to be headed for a landslide victory over six rivals as Argentines voted on Sunday. If she does win, she'll be the first woman re-elected as president in Latin America. (AP Photo/Francisco Munoz)

Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez votes during general elections in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Fernandez appeared to be headed for a landslide victory over six rivals as Argentines voted on Sunday. If she does win, she'll be the first woman re-elected as president in Latin America. (AP Photo/Francisco Munoz)

Two women search the electoral rolls for the location of their polling table during general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Incumbent President Cristina Fernandez appeared to be headed for a landslide victory over six rivals as Argentines voted on Sunday. If she does win, she'll be the first woman re-elected as president in Latin America. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)

Voters search the electoral rolls for the location of their polling table during general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Incumbent President Cristina Fernandez appeared to be headed for a landslide victory over six rivals as Argentines voted on Sunday. If she does win, she'll be the first woman re-elected as president in Latin America. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)

A voter casts his ballot in the general election in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Incumbent President Cristina Fernandez appeared to be headed for a landslide victory over six rivals as Argentines voted on Sunday. If she does win, she'll be the first woman re-elected as president in Latin America. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, Hermes Binner, talks to reporters after voting in the general election in Rosario, Argentina, Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. Incumbent President Cristina Fernandez appeared to be headed for a landslide victory over six rivals as Argentines voted on Sunday. If she does win, she'll be the first woman re-elected as president in Latin America. (AP Photo/Juan Jose Garcia)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ? President Cristina Fernandez, aided by a booming economy, appeared to be headed for a landslide re-election victory on Sunday over six rivals.

It would make her the first woman re-elected as president in Latin America. But it also would be a bittersweet victory for the populist leader, her first in a lifetime of politics without her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, who died of a heart attack last Oct. 27.

Her voice almost broke as she spoke about this legacy, describing a mixture of pride and sorrow after casting her ballot in his hometown, the remote Patagonian city of Rio Gallegos. "In this world where they have criticized us so forcefully, all this makes me feel very proud, that we're on the right track," she said. Kirchner "would be very content."

Fernandez can win with as little as 40 percent of the vote if none of her rivals comes within 10 percentage points of her, but the latest polls suggested she could capture between 52 percent and 57 percent of votes.

Her Front for Victory coalition also hopes to regain enough seats in Congress to form new alliances and regain the control it lost in 2009. At play are 130 lower house seats and 24 Senate seats.

Fernandez's poll numbers had dipped during the early years of her presidency, but she has reversed the negative numbers as a widow, softening her usually combative tone and proving her ability to govern on her own by ensuring loyalty or respect from an unruly political elite.

Many Argentines in pre-election polls said they would vote for her because their financial situations have improved during one of its longest spells of economic growth in history.

If trends hold, Fernandez could receive a larger share of votes than any president since Argentina's democracy was restored in 1983, when Raul Alfonsin was elected with 52 percent, and more than anyone since her strongman hero, Juan Domingo Peron, who won with 60 and 63 percent in his last two elections.

Fernandez, 58, chose her youthful, guitar-playing, long-haired economy minister, Amado Boudou, as her running mate. Together, the pair championed Argentina's approach to the global financial crisis: Increase government spending rather than impose austerity measures, and force investors in foreign debt to suffer before ordinary citizens.

Argentina has been closed off from most international lending since declaring its world-record debt default in 2001, but has been able to sustain booming growth ever since.

The country faces tough challenges in 2012, however. Its commodities exports are vulnerable to a global recession, and economic growth is forecast to slow sharply in the coming year. Declining revenues will make it harder to raise incomes to keep up with inflation. Argentina's central bank is under pressure to spend reserves to maintain the peso's value against the dollar, while also guarding against currency shocks that could threaten Argentina's all-important trade with Brazil.

If his ticket wins, Boudou could win attention as a potential successor to Fernandez, but navigating these storms will require much skill and good fortune.

Opposition candidates have blamed Fernandez for rising inflation, for politically manipulated economic data, rising crime and attempts to use government power to control media criticism. They have also accused the government of failing to prepare Argentina for another global crisis.

"It's not clear where the world is headed. It's better to be prepared. This isn't achieved with conflict, but through dialogue," socialist Hermes Binner said as he voted. He was in second place in the last polls, with between 12 percent and 17 percent of the vote.

In addition to Binner, 68, a doctor and governor of Santa Fe province, candidates include Ricardo Alfonsin, 59, a lawyer and congressional deputy with the traditional Radical Civic Union party and son of the former president; Alberto Rodriguez Saa, 52, an attorney and governor of San Luis province whose brother Adolfo was president for a week; Eduardo Duhalde, who preceded Kirchner as president; leftist former lawmaker Jorge Altamira, 69, and Elisa Carrio 54, a congresswoman who came in second behind Fernandez four years ago but trailed the field this time.

Voting is obligatory in Argentina, and nearly 29 million citizens among the 40 million population are registered. Fernandez said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, who is responsible for managing the election process, told her that turnout was strong and everything going smoothly.

"I've been a political activist my whole life, but I haven't always been able to vote," Fernandez said, referring to the 1966-1973 and 1976-1983 dictatorships, which tried and failed to eliminate Peronism as an electoral force. "To be able to vote freely in the Argentine republic is an achievement."

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Michael Warren can be reached at www.twitter.com/mwarrenap

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Libya "liberated," but Gaddafi still unburied (Reuters)

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) ? A day after Libyans declared a "liberation" that consigned Muammar Gaddafi to the "garbage bin of history," hundreds again filed past his rotting corpse in a grim display that has raised questions about the nation's new direction.

With their Western allies expressing quiet unease that Gaddafi was battered and shot after his capture on Thursday, then put on show for days in a market cold store, the rebel factions which ended his 42-year rule were still wrangling over the body, amid wider negotiations on dividing up power.

The killing of the 69-year-old in his hometown of Sirte ended a nervous, two-month hiatus since the motley rebel forces of the National Transitional Council overran the capital Tripoli and ended eight months of war -- though Gaddafi's son and heir-apparent Saif al-Islam is still at large.

Yet while the death of the fallen strongman allowed the NTC to trigger mass rejoicing by declaring Libya's long-awaited "liberation" on Sunday in Benghazi, the seat of the revolt, it has also turned a harsh spotlight on jockeying for power among heavily armed local commanders as negotiations begin in earnest to form an interim government that can run free elections.

In Misrata, Libya's long-besieged third city whose war leaders are pushing for a big role in the peace, fighters handing out surgical masks against the stench were still ushering hundreds of sightseers into the chill room where the bodies of Gaddafi, his son Mo'tassim and his former army chief lay on the floor, their flesh darkening and leaking fluids.

Officials at one point declared the show was over, closed the gates and started turning people away. "That's enough," said one of the guards. "He's been causing us as much trouble dead as he did alive." But within an hour, there seemed to be a change of plan as dozens more sightseers arrived by bus.

The Islamic law that NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said during Sunday's liberation announcement should be upheld in the new Libya would dictate a swift burial within the day.

But NTC officials said negotiations were going on with Gaddafi's tribal kinsmen from Sirte and within the interim leadership over where and how to dispose of the bodies - and on what the Misratans might receive in return for cooperation.

CONTROVERSIAL KILLING

The killings in Sirte, after cellphone video footage was taken showing the captive Gaddafi being beaten and mocked by fighters apparently from Misrata, are also a matter of controversy - at least outside Libya. The United Nations human rights arm has joined the Gaddafi family in seeking an inquiry.

Abdel Jalil told a news conference on Monday that the NTC had formed a committee to investigate. He also indicated that the interim authorities still held to an official line that Gaddafi may have been killed in "crossfire" with his own men - a view many NTC officials themselves seem ready to discount.

"We have formed a committee to investigate how Gaddafi was killed during the clashes with his supporters while arresting him," Abdel Jalil said, adding that whoever killed him may have had something to hide.

"All Libyans wanted to prosecute him over what he did to them, from executions to imprisonments, corruption, wasting their money. Those who have an interest in killing him before prosecuting him are those who had an active role with him," said Abdel Jalil, who like many of the new leadership formerly held positions of authority under Gaddafi.

Adding to concerns about Libya turning over a new leaf on respect for individuals, New York-based Human Rights Watch called on the NTC to probe an "apparent mass execution" of 53 people, apparently Gaddafi supporters, whom it found dead, some with their hands bound, at a hotel in Sirte.

FEW QUALMS

Yet few Libyans seem troubled about either how Gaddafi and his entourage were killed or why they are being kept exposed for so long in what seemed a grim parody of the lying in state often reserved for deceased national leaders.

"God made the pharaoh as an example to the others," said Salem Shaka, who was viewing the bodies in Misrata on Monday. "If he had been a good man, we would have buried him.

"But he chose this destiny for himself."

The killing of fallen autocrats is far from a novelty - in Europe in living memory, similar fates befell Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989 and Benito Mussolini, who had created modern Libya as an Italian colony a decade before he died in 1945.

However, some of the anti-Gaddafi rebels' Western allies have expressed disquiet about the treatment of Gaddafi both after his capture and after his death and worry Libya's new leaders will not uphold their promise to respect human rights.

Asked whether France, a driving force in NATO backing for the rebels, was concerned about the state of democracy in the emerging new Libya, the French foreign ministry noted that Abdel Jalil had said he would defend a "moderate" Islam:

"We are confident in the Libyan people, who have courageously set themselves free of 42 years of dictatorship, to construct a state of law, conforming to the principles and universal values shared by the international community," it said in a statement. "We will be vigilant about human rights."

"ROTTEN SYMBOL"

As their Tunisian and Egyptian neighbors whose uprisings inspired Libyans to rebel contemplated free elections, some fellow Arabs voiced distaste at Gaddafi's treatment, even though sympathy for the fallen strongman was in short supply.

"Forty-two dark years under a merciless dictator has naturally left the Libyan people very damage," said Mahmoud Nofal, a 36-year-old bank employee in Cairo. "It has driven them mad for revenge. The rotting body is just emblematic of the rotten political and social environment under Gaddafi."

In Britain, the best-selling Sun tabloid splashed a picture of one of its journalists posing by Gaddafi's body under the headline "Dead Dog" - a reminder of Ronald Reagan's description of Gaddafi as the "mad dog of the Middle East" in the 1980s.

The NTC wants the bodies buried in a secret location to prevent the grave becoming a shrine for Gaddafi loyalists. But authorities in Misrata do not want them under their soil.

Gaddafi's tribe centered around Sirte has asked for the body so they can bury it there. Gaddafi requested to be buried in Sirte in his will. One NTC official said authorities were negotiating with Gaddafi's tribe for them to accept the bodies and then taken them to buried elsewhere in secret.

An NTC official in Misrata said one option was to inter them alongside hundreds of pro-Gaddafi troops and fighters who besieged the city earlier in the year have been buried. Some in Misrata, he said, wanted the people of Sirte, some 250 km to the east, to produce the remains of relatives believed to have been killed by Gaddafi supporters over the past 30 years.

With big oil and gas reserves, Libya has the potential to become very prosperous, but regional rivalries fostered by Gaddafi could erupt into yet more violence.

The loosely disciplined militias that sprang up in each town with the help of NATO air power are still armed.

The places they represent will want a greater say in the future, particularly the second and third cities Benghazi and Misrata, which were starved of investment by Gaddafi.

(Reporting by Taha Zargoun in Sirte, Barry Malone and Jessica Donati in Tripoli, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor in Misrata, Christian Lowe, Jon Hemming and Andrew Hammond in Tunis, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Samia Nakhoul in Dubai and William Maclean, Andrew Roche and Matthew Jones in London; Writing by Alastair Macdonald)

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Taking Blood Pressure Meds at Bedtime May Be Better (HealthDay)

MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- For the millions of Americans on blood pressure-lowering drugs, a new study suggests that taking the pills at bedtime may be best.

It was known that taking blood pressure medications at different times of the day can affect patients' blood pressure patterns, but the impact on health wasn't known.

The new Spanish study included 661 patients with chronic kidney disease and hypertension. Half of them took their prescribed blood pressure-lowering drugs at bedtime and half took their medications first thing in the morning.

After an average follow-up of 5.4 years, the researchers found that patients who took at least one blood pressure-lowering drug at bedtime had better control of their blood pressure and were about one-third as likely to suffer a heart-related event such as heart attack, heart failure or stroke.

The team at the University of Vigo also found that sleep-time blood pressure provided a much more accurate measure of heart health than wake-time blood pressure.

The study was published online Oct. 24 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

"Our results indicate that cardiovascular event rates in patients with hypertension can be reduced by more than 50 percent with a zero-cost strategy of administering blood pressure-lowering medications at bedtime rather than in the morning," study author Ramon Hermida wrote in a journal news release.

One U.S. doctor said taking advantage of "chronotherapy" -- timing drug delivery to a patient's biorhythms -- might have real value.

"Physicians don't commonly specify which time of day patients should take their medications; however, most patients with hypertension take their antihypertensive drugs in the morning. Upon taking these medications, patients oftentimes complain of side effects, most commonly, fatigue and drowsiness," noted Dr. Robert Graham, an internist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

He believes the study reveals a "low-cost, win-win scenario" of better adherence to blood pressure medications and higher effectiveness when they're taken in the evening versus the morning. "As a result, chronotherapy may help minimize the side effects, and maximize the beneficial effects of antihypertensive medications," Graham said.

Another expert agreed.

"The notion of nocturnal medication use is not new," said Dr. Howard S. Weintraub, clinical director of the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City. "This strategy may be especially effective with the use of [blood pressure drugs such as] ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers or direct renin inhibitors."

Weintraub added that, "while taking a diuretic at bedtime may have a disruptive effect on sleep, in general, I think many of us have been doing this for some time with the intent to best control nocturnal blood pressure and to also mitigate some of the usual spike in blood pressure that occurs early in the morning (starting around 5 am)."

In the United States, about one in three adults has high blood pressure.

More information

The American Heart Association has more about blood pressure medications.

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Fort Worth shooting leaves one dead, seven injured (Reuters)

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) ? One person was killed and seven others were injured in a shooting early Sunday at a home in Fort Worth, Texas, police said.

"Numerous individuals" were gathered at the home when "an unknown suspect approached on foot and began shooting in the direction of the victims," Officer Sharron Neal of the Fort Worth Police Department told Reuters in an email.

"Several victims were struck by the gunfire," she said.

One person was pronounced dead at the scene, and seven others were transported to two different hospitals, according to Neal.

Two of the victims were in surgery, and the other five did not have life-threatening injuries, she said.

An investigation was ongoing, and no further details were immediately available.

(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan, editing by Ellen Wulfhorst)

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MC Hammer search engine odd, but there are plenty of search apps worth a look (Appolicious)

I don?t know who MC Hammer?s financial advisers are these days. I assume they?re better than whatever dudes got him into this trouble a while back. But they?re maybe still not good enough. At least not if this story that?s making the rounds via TechCrunch is true.

It?s hard to know exactly where to start with a proper list of complaints. I guess WireDoo doesn?t seem like the sort of thing I ever want to type into a web browser, for starters. But I also don?t know that I want a search to interpret what I?m trying to ask it. According to the TC article, searching a school?s name would give me the truancy rate. But what if I wanted any other information?

I assume at some point that some sort of app version of the Hammer Search (a much better name) will find its way to our mobile devices. But I?m not sure we need that either. There?s a serious list of search-friendly apps out there designed to make your already stellar search experience even better.

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For an admittedly pretty high price, you can try Search Maestro HD ($4.99). It allows you to perform multiple searches at one time in addition to saving your searches for a later time if you need to quickly reference that list of results again. Plus, if you?re into custom design, you can change the background colors of your search to give it a custom feel that best represents your personality.

But if five bucks feels like too much of an investment in a search tool, you might try the free oMoby app. oMoby lets you search visually. Take a picture using your iPhone camera and the app will pull up information on the thing you?ve just photographed. Already this sounds cooler than MC Hammer?s idea, plus it?s free and available now!

But maybe you?re not a visual person and you just want an easy way to search a bunch of sites at once. All Search Engines In One ($0.99) lets you do exactly that. You can search Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Baidu, Wikipedia and WolframAlpha and then text the link to your friends using the built-in messaging system within the app.

Go Search It ($0.99) is even a bit simpler than that, but still seems like all you?d really ever need. It lets users search Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask with just a few quick taps. While I can?t wait for the update that includes WireDoo, I think our search options are just fine without Mr. Hammer?s help for now.

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Fugitive in husband's death appears in court

Mary Ann Rivera adjusts her chain as she sits in a Houston courtroom waiting to appear before a judge Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Rivera, 76, is charged with murder by omission in the 1970 death of her husband. Rivera had been a fugitive since she posted a $10,000 bond in 1970 following her indictment. Court records allege that Rivera was accused of killing her husband by "throwing hot grease on him and by throwing other substances and liquids." (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Mary Ann Rivera adjusts her chain as she sits in a Houston courtroom waiting to appear before a judge Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Rivera, 76, is charged with murder by omission in the 1970 death of her husband. Rivera had been a fugitive since she posted a $10,000 bond in 1970 following her indictment. Court records allege that Rivera was accused of killing her husband by "throwing hot grease on him and by throwing other substances and liquids." (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Mary Ann Rivera sits in a Houston courtroom waiting to appear before a judge Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Rivera, 76, is charged with murder by omission in the 1970 death of her husband. Rivera had been a fugitive since she posted a $10,000 bond in 1970 following her indictment. Court records allege that Rivera was accused of killing her husband by "throwing hot grease on him and by throwing other substances and liquids." (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

HOUSTON (AP) ? An elderly woman with an oxygen tank next to her sat in a Texas courtroom Friday after her four-decade run as a fugitive accused of murdering her husband by dousing him with hot grease came to an end.

Mary Ann Rivera made her first court appearance since being returned to Houston this week from Georgia, where she had been living since fleeing a murder charge in the October 1970 death of her husband, Cruz Rivera.

The 76-year-old, wearing an orange prison uniform and breathing in oxygen from a plastic tube that snaked from her nose and around her ears to a green tank on wheels, sat in a jury box with several other prisoners while her case was reset to Nov. 15. She will remain jailed without bond.

Rivera's friends and neighbors have said her various health issues include heart, back and breathing problems. Her health required that she be driven and not flown back to Houston.

Prosecutor Tina Ansari said the age of the case and possible witness issues could present some obstacles as authorities proceed in bringing Rivera to trial.

"An old case is never an easy case," she said.

Jules Johnson, one of Rivera's two public defenders, said he is still reviewing her case.

"It's a 40-year-old case. We have to sift through it," he said. He declined to comment further.

One of Rivera's sons, Mark Rivera, declined to comment when reached on Friday at his home in South Carolina.

According to court records, Rivera was accused of killing her husband by "throwing hot grease on him and by throwing other substances and liquids."

Cruz Rivera died several days later from liver problems that had been caused by his serious burns, Ansari said. Ansari said Rivera threw the hot grease on her husband after getting angry with him at their home. Ansari declined to comment on what caused the fight.

Authorities have said that Rivera had previously made some claims of abuse but that law enforcement was never called to the couple's Houston home on allegations of domestic violence.

Lorraine Robertson, one of Rivera's friends in Georgia, said the woman had indicated that her husband had slapped her once but "that was it."

Authorities say that after Rivera was indicted in November 1970, she posted a $10,000 bond and fled Houston with her three children, including twin sons. She eventually made her way to Lake Park, Ga., near the Florida border.

Friends in Georgia said Rivera worked as a waitress, raised her children and never spoke about her husband or her life in Texas until she was questioned by investigators before her arrest.

Rivera continued living in her Lake Park apartment until an investigator with the Harris County District Attorney's Office in Houston worked on the cold case for a couple of years, first tracking down Rivera's sons and eventually finding her Georgia address.

Officials with Georgia's Lowndes County Sheriff's Office arrested Rivera on Oct. 11 after being contacted by Houston police.

Rivera's arrest was the second in less than a week in a cold case being investigated by the district attorney's office's fugitive apprehension section. On Thursday, the DA's office said a 55-year-old man was arrested, also in Georgia, for a 1980 slaying near a Houston night club.

"If you are a fugitive from Harris County, you might as well surrender now," said District Attorney Pat Lykos.

Since the unit was formed in 2009, more than 40 fugitives have been arrested and returned to Harris County.

Associated Press

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No matter what country you're in, you'll find at least one body-painted sports nut willing to act a fool in the name of fandom. To figure out what makes these hooligans tick, Sharp's setting up trucks outside EuroCup 2012 matches to measure fans' brainwaves using biometric technology. Once inside these mobile FanLabs, volunteers will watch the game while wearing the company's NeuroSky headsets -- a super sensitive EEG that uses dry electrodes to measure cerebral activity. By looking at brainwaves, along with heart rate and vocal excitement, scientists hope to reveal what levels of attention, stress, relaxation and excitement a fan goes through while supporting a specific team. Even if you're not lending your melon to science, you can still join in the fun online, and see how you stack up against fans from around the world. So, bust out the body paint, grab your foam fingers and check out the video after the break.

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