NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Titans and Chris Johnson have agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension ending the three-time Pro Bowl running back's holdout.
Tennessee confirmed Thursday they agreed to terms on the revised deal. Johnson tweeted Wednesday night that he had dinner in Orlando with his agent Joel Segal "to discuss business."
Johnson has led the NFL in yards rushing the past three seasons …
A kitchen worker at an exclusive English boarding school has been arrested for trying to poison a batch of soup being prepared for students, administrators said Wednesday.
The director of the Stowe School in Buckingham 75 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of London said a household cleaning agent was put into the carrot and coriander soup, but no one was injured because the soup wasn't served to students.
Kitchen staff became suspicious of the soup because of an acrid smell, head teacher Anthony Wallersteiner said.
"Before any meal is taken up from the kitchens to be served the food is tested, and it was …
With the advertising industry in something of a slump, at leastone enterprising local ad agency has decided to expand into thefuneral business.
Well, sort of.
Representatives from Euro RSCG McConnaughy Tatham/Chicago havebeen busy all week in New York staging "The Death of the One Piece,"as the guerrilla funeral/marketing campaign for a new Wilson SportingGoods three-piece tennis rakuet was dubbed. The "one piece" refers tothe traditional rakuet, which Wilson hopes to replace with its newTriad product.
The Triad's handle includes a polymer section that is supposed toreduce by up to 60 percent the shock and vibration that occurs whenthe rakuet makes contact …
NEW YORK (AP) — Mariano Rivera was in rare trouble. Four straight singles trimmed Oakland's deficit to two and left the bases loaded for David DeJesus.
He hit a line drive toward first — and suddenly the game was over. Rivera and the Yankees had caught a break.
DeJesus hit into a game-ending double play when pinch-runner Ryan Sweeney got trapped off first base, and New York held on to beat the Oakland Athletics 7-5 Sunday.
"It's part of the game," Rivera said. "Broken bat, base hit. Line drive, double play. Figure it out."
Bartolo Colon pitched seven effective innings to end a three-start losing streak and Curtis Granderson had a two-run homer for the Yankees. …
Britain's primary opposition leader banned members of his party Tuesday from filing expense claims for food and household items amid public outrage after lawmakers sought reimbursements for items such as swimming pool construction and tennis court upkeep.
Conservative David Cameron said his party's lawmakers would reimburse the taxpayers for expenses deemed inappropriate, such as chandeliers, sleigh beds and manure. The Conservative Party leader said that the public could not abide by the expenditures, even though they were technically allowed under the complicated system for claiming household costs.
"Politicians have done things that are unethical …
Letters revealing the trials and tribulations of a Spanish familywho took refuge from Napoleon's Army in regency Bath are nowavailable for all to see.
The letters dating from the early 1800s offer a fascinatinginsight into life in the city at the time and have just been madeavailable to view at Bath and North East Somerset Council's BathRecord Office.
The Langton family were of Irish descent but lived in Spain wherethey inter-married with locals. As the Peninsular War raged MariaLangton, her grown-up son and daughter and several grandchildrenfled to England where she took refuge in Bath.
The correspondence, dating back to March 1810, begins with …
MILWAUKEE - Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella's suspension was set at four games Monday by Major League Baseball for his weekend dirt-kicking tantrum against an umpire.
"I will serve it and I will learn from this experience," Piniella said before Monday night's game at Milwaukee. "These things won't happen again."
The commissioner's office originally planned to suspend Piniella for five games. The penalty was reduced by one game after Piniella spoke with John McHale Jr., MLB's executive vice president for administration.
Piniella said he was suspended for making contact with umpire Mark Wegner - which the Cubs first-year manager denied - and for "exciting the …
