Nancy Kerrigan may testify at brother's trial

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is expected to be a witness at her brother's upcoming manslaughter trial in the death of their 70-year-old father, according to a witness list filed in court Monday.

Kerrigan's name appears on a joint witness list filed by prosecutors and defense attorneys for Mark Kerrigan. The list does not specify which side plans to call the famous skater as a witness, but she has joined her family in publicly defending her brother.

Prosecutors say Daniel Kerrigan died in January 2010 following a fight with his son at the family's Stoneham, Mass., home.

The Kerrigan family insists Daniel Kerrigan died of a longstanding heart …

Big in China: Brands import foreign celebrities

Kevin Garnett wore his affection for China's booming sportswear market on his back as the NBA star arrived in Beijing in August.

"Love China" declared the Boston Celtics power forward's T shirt. On the front: The angular red slash logo of Anta, the athletic shoe producer that brought Garnett to China for a weeklong promotional tour.

"Garnett in China is the definition of a basketball superstar. His image and influence among Chinese young people are very big," said Zheng Jie, Anta's senior vice president.

To reach worldly young Chinese consumers, the country's new but ambitious brands are scouring the globe for athletes, film …

HARNESSING THE PRAIRIE WINDS: Ethanol may ease farm crisis, but wind power more feasible

Hopes are being pinned on biofuels as a way out of the agriculture crisis. Ethanol and bio-diesel, the hopeful say, will increase the demand for crops like wheat and canola enough to make farming profitable again. Farmers and governments have pinned so much hope on biofuels because the traditional things that used to be trotted out as reasons for hope have pretty much crashed and burned.

In Canada, the last two such hopes were the World Trade Organization and a Conservative government. Most farmers now realize the WTO will never bring prosperity, and the Conservative Harper government has shown little indication it will end the immediate cash crisis on farms by the only means …

Spanish Soccer Results

Results from the 22nd round of Spain's first-division soccer league (home teams listed first):

Saturday's Games

Almeria 2, Real Madrid 0

Real Betis 0, Deportivo La Coruna 1

Sunday's Games

Levante vs. Racing Santander

Atletico Madrid vs. Murcia

Valladolid vs. Valencia

Zaragoza vs. Athletic Bilbao

Recreativo Huelva vs. Sevilla

Villarreal vs. Mallorca

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Cargo ship sinks in Red Sea; at least 2 crew drown

A cargo ship sank during bad weather in the Red Sea on Monday, and at least two crew members drowned. Two nearby ships and a helicopter managed to pluck 10 men from the choppy water, according to an official and Egyptian media.

Fourteen crew members remained missing.

The ship, with a 26-member crew, had passed the Suez Canal and was en route to the United Arab Emirates carrying a cargo of 6,500 tons (5,900 metric tons) of silica sand meant for manufacturing glass, said Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Deraz, head of the Egyptian Red Sea Port Authority.

He said the Ibn Battuta sent a distress message early Monday while sailing near the Egyptian port city of …

Get real? Artist paints fantasies in nursery

In artist Judy Lichtenstein's world, blue elephants fly, pastelpigs wear bikinis and turquoise cats need shades.

And everything floats in a world of dots.

"My style is so non-realistic," she said. "It's very whimsical,with happy colors. It kind of makes you smile."

Lichtenstein's world of whimsy was made for the nursery.

"I've been painting nurseries and other rooms for about 10years," she said. "It just seemed natural."

Just recently, Lichtenstein did her first black-and-white job -a border in the nursery of Sharon Maltz's baby girl, Megan.

"We love it," Maltz said. "It's so much fun."

Although many of Lichtenstein's …

Puerto Rico touts new plans for giant telescope

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico plans to build a planetarium and a hotel as part of a $50 million project to attract more visitors to the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.

Officials at Puerto Rico's Metropolitan University say the planetarium will be built within two years and the hotel within five years.

The university helps run the observatory with the …