The automaker’s earnings for 2011 were the largest in 13 years after a one-time gain in the fourth quarter.

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Ford Posts Third-Straight Annual Profit

With the Giants’ Tom Coughlin about to coach in his fourth conference championship game Sunday, it seems time to appraise him for more than his punctiliousness.

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Tom Coughlin Goes by the Book, and Wins

Confidence among the nation’s single-family home builders rose in January for the fourth consecutive month, according to the National Association of Home Builders/ Wells Fargo Housing Market Index released Wednesday. Read full article > >

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Home builders’ confidence grows in January

League Two Swindon dump Wigan out of the FA Cup to reach the fourth round for the first time since 1996.

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Swindon 2-1 Wigan

December sales were largely from big markdowns, and retailers including Target, Kohl’s and J.C. Penney lowered their fourth-quarter profit expectations.

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Retailers Post Sales Gains, but Discounts Hurt

A lone zebra shark in a Dubai aquarium has prompted scientific interest after laying eggs for the fourth year in a row which hatch into healthy offspring.

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On a night that should have centered around the Washington Capitals recording their fourth consecutive win and continuing on their recent roll of strong play , the team’s victory was overshadowed by a potential injury to leading scorer Nicklas Backstrom. Near the midway point of the third period in Washington’s 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night at Verizon Center, Backstrom was elbowed in the head by Rene Bourque. Three shifts later, the team removed its top center from the game. Read full article > >

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Capitals vs. Flames: Possible injury to Nicklas Backstrom overshadows Washington’s 3-1 win, return of Mike Green

The Knicks, who were outscored 28-14 in the fourth quarter when they made just 5 of 19 shots, opened their West Coast trip with a lopsided defeat to the Warriors.

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The bookend plays of the Washington Redskins’ most recent loss to the New England Patriots also could bracket their season. In the first quarter, quarterback Rex Grossman dropped back to pass in his own end zone, was drilled by New England defensive end Andre Carter, dropped the football and yielded a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, trailing by just seven points, Grossman looked for veteran wide receiver Santana Moss inside the Patriots 5-yard line. The ball hit Moss in the hands, popped out the other side, and was intercepted. Read full article > >

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Redskins have longest active turnover streak in NFL

NBC has signed shock jock Howard Stern to replace Piers Morgan on its summer talent competition series, “America’s Got Talent,” as the network struggles to climb out of the fourth-place ratings hole in which it has been mired for years. Yes, the network that’s afraid of the word “vodka” — more on that later — has hired the poster child of raunchy language and programming. Read full article > >

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Shock jock Howard Stern is the new Piers Morgan on NBC’s competition series “America’s Got Talent,” as the network struggles to climb out of the fourth-place ratings hole in which it has been mired for years. NBC stepped on its own Golden Globe Awards nominations announcement Thursday morning when it announced literally minutes later that it had closed a deal for Stern to serve as the new judge on the top-rated summer alternative series — one of few bright spots on NBC’s primetime landscape. Read full article > >

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It’s official: Howard Stern joins NBC’s ‘America’s Got Talent’ as a judge

The Washington Redskins couldn’t find a way to carry last week’s strong showing into a second straight game and fumbled away a 34-19 loss to the New York Jets at FedEx Field Sunday. The Redskins teased the mostly burgundy-clad crowd of 74,121 by opening the game with an authoritative drive and holding a lead until late in the fourth quarter. Read full article > >

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Lakia McDuffie was sleeping in her fourth-floor apartment at Wingate Towers & Gardens in Southwest Washington when a light flooding into her bedroom woke her up. Then her windows rattled. She wondered what was going on. It was a plane landing at Reagan National Airport . Since that night in the spring, incoming airliners have regularly flown by her building at late hours, McDuffie said. Read full article > >

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D.C. communities all shook up as Reagan National-bound planes change their landing patterns

BALTIMORE — John Harbaugh aggressively pumped his fist when Joe Flacco converted a big third-down throw. He jumped on the back of linebacker Jameel McClain as he ran off the field after a key sack in the fourth quarter, and he gave several of his players hugs after receiving the first of two celebratory Gatorade baths. Read full article > >

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Baltimore Ravens top San Francisco 49ers in the Harbaugh bowl

BALTIMORE — John Harbaugh aggressively pumped his fist when Joe Flacco converted a big third-down throw. He jumped on the back of linebacker Jameel McClain as he ran off the field after a key sack in the fourth quarter, and he gave several of his players hugs after receiving the first of two celebratory Gatorade baths. Read full article > >

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Baltimore Ravens top San Francisco 49ers in the Harbaugh bowl