The safety practices of a foundation that pairs volunteer boat captains with special-needs people who want to learn how to sail are under scrutiny after a sailboat on a sponsored trip capsized, killing a man and his son.The 26-foot MacGregor boat overturned Sunday in San Diego Bay, killing the two men and sending eight others…

intimate Peter Jay Sharp Theater.Obie Award winner Lisa Banes, Obie nominee Tim Hopper, Tony Award nominee Stephen Bogardus, Obie winner Mary Shultz, Brian Hutchison and Michael Izquierdo are among the players joining Greenspan, whose chorus boy is transported to modern-day Montauk, Long Island.Leigh Silverman (Well) directs the production, to play to May 1. Opening night…

Doug McDermott scored 21 points and Creighton spoiled former coach Dana Altman's return to the Qwest Center with an 84-76 victory over his Oregon Ducks in Game 1 of the College Basketball Invitational championship series Monday night.McDermott scored nine straight points in a 12-0 run that gave the Bluejays a 58-41 lead four minutes into…

U.S. stocks edged higher on Monday, lifted by strength in the telecommunications sector and an eighth straight monthly rise in consumer spending, but concerns about overseas turmoil kept gains in check.Japan's nuclear disaster and civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa have increased market volatility in recent weeks, making investors cautious as they…

last resort," while France criticized the U.N.'s Ivorian mission for not doing enough to protect civilians so far."There is a U.N. force on the ground. I think it should, without doubt, play its role more efficiently because it has a mandate that allows it to use force if ... there is violence," French Foreign Minister…

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Acerbic British music judge and entrepreneur Simon Cowell said on Monday that the winner of the first U.S. version of the television singing competition, "The X Factor," will receive a $5 million record deal.The new talent show on Fox television will start auditions for solo artists and vocal groups aged…

GENEVA – Germany says it will halt all payments to a $21.7 billion global health fund until it gets answers about serious corruption allegations raised in articles by The Associated Press.The country's development ministry said its pledge of euro200 million ($270 million) for 2011 will be withheld from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 closed at a 29-month high on Wednesday led by gains in tech and commodity shares, as investors largely ignored the U.S. Federal Reserve's lukewarm economic assessment.The stock market had little reaction to the Fed, which said high unemployment still justifies a $600 billion bond-buying program that has helped…

MINNEAPOLIS – Boeing Co. said on Wednesday that its 2011 profit will be hurt by delays to its new 787 and higher pension expenses.The airplane builder and defense company also said its fourth-quarter profit fell 8 percent to $1.16 billion. Revenue dropped 8 percent to $16.55 billion.Boeing shares fell $2.55, or 3.5 percent, to $69.69…

PHILADELPHIA – Michael Leighton wore an orange-and-black uniform, crouched in goal under the Philadelphia Flyers' 2009-10 Eastern Conference championship banner and heard 18,000 fans cheering for him in the NHL arena.Leighton was back on the ice where he felt he belonged.While the setting of his greatest professional moments were fit for a triumphant homecoming, the…