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Soccer U.S. delivers biggest rout ever in first World Cup qualifier The United States scored early and it scored late. The Americans got five goals with their feet, one with a header, one with a chest and another when an opponent put the ball into his own net. A record-setting rout began when Clint Dempsey scored 53 seconds in, and when it was over, the United States had opened …

BLATHER: 1) “That f—er lives down the road from me, man! He has to go back to the UK, because he has the paparazzi all over my house.” Mark Wahlberg explains (on popcrunch.com) that he’s never met David and Victoria Beckham, but they’re neighbours.

1 Treat dads who love classic cars to today’s Easton Farm Park Festival in Suffolk, where they can admire more than 400 exhibits. And there’s lots more family fun on offer, including motorcycle stunts and kite-flying (easton festival.org.uk).

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Alcohol license requests for a sprawling campground, bar and concert area near a Black Hills butte that’s sacred to American Indians will be opposed at a July 1 hearing in Sturgis.

When you spend so much of your time on the road, there are so many spaces between the spaces. So, some time between about 1989 and 1992, Bob Dylan took up drawing again. He’d drawn in the past, a great deal in the 1960s. In fact, after that mysterious motorcycle accident of his, he even spent some time in the bowels of Carnegie Hall being tutored in art by a Russian professor of painting. We’d …

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - International press freedom groups condemned the killing of the vice president of a Caracas newspaper known for investigating corruption and warned the slaying could have a chilling effect on Venezuela’s news media.

Motorists are urged to look twice for motorbikes as part of a campaign to increase safety and reduce collisions.

BOWLING GREEN EX-UK STAR ARRESTED ON DUI CHARGE Former University of Kentucky star Patrick Sparks was arrested Friday and charged with driving under the influence. Sparks, 25, was arrested by Bowling Green police about 2:30 a.m. CDT after being pulled over for making an improper turn near the Western Kentucky University campus. Sparks’ eyes were bloodshot and his speech was slurred, …

TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Output by Japan’s automakers rose 5.4 percent to 917,951 vehicles in April from a year earlier, in line with growth in demand in Asia and emerging markets, data from Japan’s Automobile Manufacturers Association showed on Friday.