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PHILADELPHIA – After being demoted to the minor leagues Tuesday, Philadelphia starter Kyle Kendrick said he had something to prove. The right-hander responded with one of his best outings of the season and, helped by the Phillies’ re-emerging offense, led Philadelphia to a 10-2 win over Ubaldo Jimenez and the Colorado Rockies. “I wanted to show them I belong here,” Kendrick said

RALEIGH, N.C.

Michele Bachmann gestures as she speaks at the Republican National Convention in 2008. Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP “The mama grizzlies, they rear up, and if you thought pitbulls were tough, well, you don’t want to mess with the mama grizzlies” – Sarah Palin I live and work in Hollywood, the capital of celebrity flameouts – Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey Jr, etc. My local Beverly Hills and Malibu courthouse and police stations are stakeouts for paparazzi, snapping well-known actors looking washed-out and hungover as they do the “ perp walk “

LONDON/FRANKFURT (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) – So few banks failed Europe’s long-awaited stress tests on Friday that investors will likely focus instead on the dozen or so banks that just scraped through when markets reopen next week. Seven banks failed the unprecedented test of Europe’s banking system — including five small regional Spanish lenders — and need to plug a much smaller-than-expected combined capital shortfall of 3.5 billion euros ($4.5 billion). But the health check on 91 banks in 20 countries was criticized as being too soft.

LYNWOOD, Calif. – A reality television starlet who pleaded no contest to felony burglary in connection with a break-in at actor Orlando Bloom’s home has been released from a Los Angeles County jail after serving 30 days of a 180-day sentence

Washington – Just when the Democrats thought they had dodged one potentially explosive situation well before Election Day – the shorter-than-expected trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich – another irascible Democrat has reared his head, Rep.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – Brad Childress sat forward in his chair and, in his scratchy, out-of-key baritone, started an old Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune. “Getting to know you.

Eleven people died when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded.

LOS ANGELES – Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized in critical condition Friday and was not responding to visitors after undergoing hip replacement surgery after a fall at her Bel-Air home, her publicist said. John Blanchette said he spoke to Gabor’s husband on Thursday and was told he was very worried about the 93-year-old actress because she was not responding to human contact. Blanchette described her condition as critical but said he had not received a formal report on Gabor’s condition from her doctors