NEW YORK — Add ABC to the list of broadcast networks loading up on comedy next season. In addition to its successful Wednesday comedy block, the network will launch another block on Tuesdays and will resurrect its Friday family comedy block, last seen during ABC’s “TGIF” days. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — The firepower in their bullpen makes it easy for the Washington Nationals to envision life without Drew Storen , until the ninth inning arrives and the score is tied. Storen will see orthopedist James Andrews on Tuesday for a second opinion on his elbow, a visit that could end with him sidelined for half the season and the Nationals needing to fill a lot of ninth innings. Read full article > >

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Nationals vs. Mets: Henry Rodriguez’s ninth-inning meltdown shows how much Washington misses Drew Storen

NEW YORK — The Washington Capitals wanted to enter the postseason riding a wave of success. With a commanding victory over the New York Rangers to close out the regular season, Washington accomplished that goal with aplomb. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — It ran beautifully along the Palisades Interstate Parkway, winding through New Jersey and New York. To say the least, it was surprising — a subcompact Chevrolet sedan that handled twists and turns with aplomb. Read full article > >

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2012 Sonic LTZ: Chevrolet’s super new subcompact car

NEW YORK—Ricky Martin does a pretty good job of playing Ricky Martin throughout the plodding pageantry of “ Evita ,” the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that opened in lavish revival Thursday night at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre. The dashing pop star flashes dazzling smiles as he serenades us in troubadour style. Read full article > >

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A woman suffers serious burns when petrol ignites as she decants it in the kitchen of her York home because her daughter had run out of fuel.

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Woman badly burned decanting fuel

NEW YORK — Jorge Posada is planning to retire after 17 seasons with the New York Yankees rather than pursue opportunities with other teams. A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Saturday that the five-time All-Star catcher will announce his retirement this month. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not yet been made public. Posada’s plans were first reported by sports radio station WFAN. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — Yahoo Inc. may name Scott Thompson, president of eBay Inc.’s PayPal division, as its new CEO, according to a published report. The struggling Internet company has been without a permanent CEO since early September, when it fired Carol Bartz after losing patience with her attempts to turn around the company during her 2 ½ years on the job. Tim Morse, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, has been interim CEO since Bartz’s ouster. Read full article > >

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GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — Under the murky waters of the York River, an eerie blur appeared suddenly on Edward Hogge’s sonar, near where his 40-foot deadrise boat sailed about a mile offshore on a cool December morning. Hogge made a hard right turn. “I’m going back to get it,” he said. He called out to his wife and first mate, Cheryl. “All right, honey, get your gloves on. Get ready!” When the boat stopped, she tossed a long rope lined with hooks overboard and yanked it. “It’s got something! It’s heavy,” Cheryl Hogge said. Read full article > >

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GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — Under the murky waters of the York River, an eerie blur appeared suddenly on Edward Hogge’s sonar, near where his 40-foot deadrise boat sailed about a mile offshore on a cool December morning. Hogge made a hard right turn. “I’m going back to get it,” he said. He called out to his wife and first mate, Cheryl. “All right, honey, get your gloves on. Get ready!” When the boat stopped, she tossed a long rope lined with hooks overboard and yanked it. “It’s got something! It’s heavy,” Cheryl Hogge said. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — Attention, conservatives: Adam Bellow says this is your moment. The intellectual left, he contends, is in a vacuum. The right is where there are ideas, variety, excitement. And Bellow, a former liberal who has made a career of pushing conservative writers and controversial issues to the forefront of American publishing, wants to hear from you. Read full article > >

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Adam Bellow hopes to give voice to the tea party with new conservative imprint at HarperCollins

NEW YORK — Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores after poor sales during the holidays, the most crucial time of year for retailers. The closings are the latest and most visible in a long series of moves to try to fix a retailer that has struggled with falling sales and shabby stores. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — Although the power stayed on all through the topsy-turvy weather patterns of the fall, the city’s theater district has found a key ingredient in the making of plays and musicals in perilously short supply this season: electricity. Only in the guise of a crowd-drawing Aussie star and his giddy show-tune revue, “ Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway ,” has there been any genuine megawatt surge on the stages of this town. A few other nights among the ones I sampled over the past few months have set off some sparks: the Kennedy Center’s revival of “ Follies ,” finishing up a run at the Marquis Theatre as an odds-on Tony nominee; Jon Robin Baitz’s smashingly composed political family dust-up, “ Other Desert Cities ,” at the Booth; actors Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, cavorting ably and mischievously in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s staging of David Ives’s theater game “ Venus in Fur ” (a version of which was produced at Studio Theatre last spring). Read full article > >

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New York Notebook: Only a few sparks in the fall theater season

NEW YORK — As we sit in a booth at Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel, devouring a roast-pork-and-fried-egg sandwich good enough to heal the sick, two of Ed Levine’s staffers start dishing about their boss’s myopia in selecting his favorite haunts for “Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making & Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are.” Apparently, Levine wanted to lard a category or two in Serious Eats ’ debut book with New York City restaurants, which could have instantly undercut the national scope of the project. Read full article > >

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A cheap eats smackdown: New York vs. Washington

NEW YORK — A woman was ambushed in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building, doused with a liquid, set ablaze and left to die in a brutal attack that was recorded by two video cameras, police said. Doris Gillespie, 64, burned to death in the elevator Saturday, police said, after an unidentified man who was waiting for her when the elevator doors opened to the fifth floor of the apartment building in Prospect Heights. The man sprayed Gillespie with an accelerant and set her on fire with a Molotov cocktail, New York City police spokesman Paul Browne said. Read full article > >

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