Judge hears arguments on law allowing stickers to be posted on noisy houses in RI beach town

Judge hears arguments on RI house sticker law

King Pharmaceuticals’ 3rd-quarter profit falls on Alpharma buyout, but tops forecast

King 3Q profit falls on charges, but tops forecast

Barnes Group posts 3Q profit decline as economic downturn continues to depress results

Barnes Group posts 3Q profit drop

BRISTOL, Conn. — Barnes Group Inc. said Friday its third-quarter profit fell 61 percent as the global economic downturn continued to dampen the aerospace and industrial parts maker’s results.

ESPN says production assistant who had affair with Phillips has been fired from network

ESPN: Woman who had affair with Phillips was fired

ESPN says production assistant who had affair with Phillips is no longer at network

Assistant in Phillips affair no longer with ESPN

Would-be bounty hunters accused of impersonating officers, nabbing innocent woman in Va.

BRISTOL, Va. — Police in Virginia say three would-be bounty hunters face charges after they impersonated drug task force agents and nabbed the wrong woman.

King Pharmaceuticals says 2nd quarter profit falls, but performance tops expectations

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Drug developer King Pharmaceuticals said Thursday its second-quarter profit dropped, as generic competition continued to hurt drug sales. But the performance trumped Wall Street expectations.

Back on campaign trail, Obama has same style, faces more complicated opponent on health care

BRISTOL, Va. — At times, it seems like Barack Obama has time-traveled back to last summer when he was simply a Democrat running for the White House. Only now, he’s the president facing a more complicated objective and opponent as he campaigns to overhaul the nation’s costly and convoluted health care system.

Obama greeted in Va. by protesters against health care overhaul, tries to allay some concerns

BRISTOL, Va. — President Barack Obama was greeted by about 200 people protesting his health care overhaul at a Virginia supermarket Wednesday and he told workers that the government was not taking over the system.

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews surreptitiously videotaped nude in hotel, video posted on Web

BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN reporter Erin Andrews’ attorney and the network say she was surreptitiously videotaped in the nude while she was alone in a hotel room.

Former United Mine Workers president Sam Church dies at 72 after long illness

BRISTOL, Va. — Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers of America, died early Tuesday after a long illness, the union announced.

Hear ye, hear ye! RI town holds nation’s oldest July 4th celebration with parade, speeches

BRISTOL, R.I. — In July 1785, the citizens of this waterfront town assembled to heap praise on their newly minted nation and to thank God for helping them survive a fierce assault by the British during the Revolutionary War.

Gov. Palin: Letterman should apologize to young women across country for statutory rape joke

WASHINGTON — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is insisting that comedian David Letterman “apologize to young women” for a joke he made on the air about one of her teen-age daughters.

Report: Dodgers’ Manny Ramirez had testosterone-epitestosterone ratio between 4:1 and 10:1

BRISTOL, Conn. — Manny Ramirez’s positive urine test showed an elevated testosterone level, and a lab used a test to determine whether the hormone was naturally produced to build evidence against him, ESPN.com reported Monday.

Report: Manny Ramirez had testosterone ratio between 4:1 and 10:1

BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN.com is reporting Manny Ramirez’s positive urine test showed an elevated testosterone level, and that the lab used a test to determine whether the hormone was naturally produced to build evidence against him.

ESPN Classic to air live coverage of Wimbledon roof-test exhibition matches with Agassi, Graf

BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN Classic will air live coverage of the May 17 exhibition matches under Wimbledon’s new Centre Court roof.

Ex-Lions executive Matt Millen joins ESPN as college football and NFL analyst

BRISTOL, Conn. — Matt Millen is a lot more popular as a broadcaster than he was as an NFL executive.

Bristol Palin’s ex fiance says he’s not mature enough to get married

NEW YORK - The former fiance of Bristol Palin has said that he and the Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter could reunite in the future but would remain apart for now.