The symmetry of baseball was never lost on the Hawaii Islanders. In just its third year of statehood, Hawai'i got what turned out to be its longest reigning pro sports franchise because of financing issues in Sacramento, Calif. Twenty-seven years later, Hawai'i would lose its franchise for the same reason.

TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - The benchmark Nikkei average <.N225> fell 1.4 percent and the broader Topix <.TOPX> lost 1.1 percent on Friday.

A woman who had been missing in the Port Pirie area since Tuesday has been found.

United States President Barack Obama says it is going to be a long road to recovery on the back of dire unemployment figures.

Organisers of a long-distance rowing race from Western Australia to Mauritius say they have located the four New Zealand rowers they lost contact with earlier this week.

In my younger years, I would simply expect this news to be greeted with universal outrage, knowing that the techniques being described had long been deemed to be well across the Bridge Too Far. Now that I've lived through the Bush administration, however, I am forced to contemplate the possibility that Iran is merely taking legitimate steps to obtain critical information in their nations' vital ...

Residents along the coast in South County has a tough time with the wild weather, thousands of folks lost power in Narragansett, and Wakefield. Police tell ABC 6 News that they received a bunch of calls, but no serious issues.

Thursday: Jared Bernstein, the chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Biden, will join us to talk about the new employment numbers and prospect for economic recovery. Jonathan Martin from Politico will discuss the political news of day.

LOS ANGELES, July 1 (UPI) -- U.S. broadcaster ABC has picked up "Defying Gravity," an international science fiction show described as "Grey's Anatomy" in space, its producers say.

By James Hibberd