NBA: Bryant moving beyond the past (source: ESPN)

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MIAMI (AP) LeBron James took a hard foul and clearly was not happy. So the next time he saw the ball, he made sure no Toronto player could reach him. […]

BOSTON (AP) Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers could see that Kevin Garnett was looking and feeling spry. […]

Risk-taking, rule-breaking ideas were as hard to find among the more than 50 Super Bowl commercials as good taste in a GoDaddy ad. […]

Whatever was boasted, forecast or guaranteed during Super Bowl week did not come from Coach Tom Coughlin or quarterback Eli Manning. […]

In their second Super Bowl matchup in five seasons, the Giants and Eli Manning scored another victory over Tom Brady and the Patriots, earning the franchise their fourth Super Bowl title. […]

No one knows when the members of First Baptist Church first met to pray together. […]

Hampton's longtime top prosecutor looks back on cases and careerWhen 4-year-old Davion Mutts went missing in Hampton in July 2005, a frantic search for the boy began in the Coliseum area of the city. […]

Historical society couldn't afford to restore farmhouse The Isle of Wight Historical Society is hoping to save an abandoned 155-year-old farmhouse and local landmark by giving it up. […]

INDIANAPOLIS—There was no perfect season on the line this time, but the New York Giants did it again to Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. New York quarterback Eli Manning engineered the big drive in crunch time when the Giants needed it and they beat the Patriots, 21-17, on Sunday night at Lucas Oil Stadium in another down-to-the-wire S […]

Madonna may have made it through her Super Bowl halftime show with no wardrobe malfunctions. But one of her fellow performers still managed to sneak in a gesture that may not please the FCC. As confirmed by a screengrab that circulated on Twitter, M.I.A. — who joined Madonna and Nicki Minaj for the track “Give Me All Your Luvin’ ” — raised her middle finger […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America’s top diplomats. The audiotape of Malcolm X’s 1961 address in Providence might never have surfaced at all if 22-year-old Brown University student Malcolm Burnley hadn’t stumble […]