story

WIMBLEDON, England – It’s not often that a professional tennis player will admit he choked. Andy Roddick, though, pulled no punches after his early exit from Wimbledon. “Any chance I got I pretty much choked it,” the two-time finalist said after blowing all eight breakpoint chances in a 6-7 (5), …

WILMINGTON, Del. – General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner says the company plans to close four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories in Canada, Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin. The company says it will cease production at a full-size pickup factory in Oshawa, Ontario. It also will stop …

This is a rush transcript from “America’s Election HQ,” June 4, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. MEGYN KELLY, CO-HOST: More than 30 percent of Hillary Clinton’s supporters in Montana and South Dakota last night said they would not vote for Obama …

NEW YORK – As the American economy slowed to a crawl and stockholders watched their money evaporate, CEO pay still chugged to yet more dizzying heights last year, an Associated Press analysis shows. The AP review of compensation for the heads of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index …

BAGHDAD – The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll from the bombing rose …

LOS ANGELES – NASA’s Phoenix lander got extra playtime in the Martian dirt on Tuesday, doing another practice dig as scientists tried to perfect the technique ahead of the actual excavation. “The team felt they weren’t really comfortable yet with the digging and dumping process,” said chief scientist Peter Smith …

LOS ANGELES – Anne Heche’s five-year marriage to Coleman Laffoon is officially over, but not without a pinch to her pocketbook. A judge ruled that Heche must pay $275,000 to her ex-husband, along with monthly child-support payments of $3,700 for the care of their 6-year-old son, Homer, according to court …

NEW YORK – New York City police say three people were stabbed on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk during lunch hour. Police say two people suffered stab wounds to the hand and a third was cut in the face during the incident Monday. A suspect was in custody, but the charges …

LOS ANGELES – The best word to describe the red-carpet fashion at the Academy Awards: red. Katherine Heigl, Helen Mirren, Miley Cyrus, Ruby Dee, Anne Hathaway and Heidi Klum were among the stars in red gowns Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Shades of plum were worn …

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – An eighth-grader at a Centennial middle school says he’s been bullied and attacked because of his German ancestry. Fourteen-year-old Adrian Ulm grew up in Germany, but now attends West Middle School in Centennial. He says bullies questioned whether his grandfather was Hitler, and called Adrian a Nazi. …