Minnesota Wild cool down Vancouver Canucks with shootout win

Roberto Luongo was a lot better in Minnesota than he’d been in the past. Still, he wasn’t quite good enough to extend Vancouver’s seven-game winning streak.

Jason Pominville slipped a shot past Luongo’s glove in the third round of a shootout to lift the Wild to a 3-2 victory Tuesday night, the first loss by the Canucks this month.

Luongo made 30 saves, including 14 in the third period and overtime, and stopped Zach Parise to open the shootout. Mikko Koivu, who had two assists for a team-high 20 this season, hit the crossbar with his shot before Pominville scored. Ryan Kesler’s last-chance attempt for Vancouver sailed wide right after Josh Harding stopped shots by Mike Santorelli and Chris Higgins.

“We’ve got to try different people, I guess, because we stink at it,” Canucks coach John Tortorella said.

Source: nationpost 

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Winning Tickets in $636M Mega Millions Jackpot Sold in California

Two tickets -- one in San Jose, Calif., and another in Atlanta, Ga. -- have matched the winning numbers in the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, state lottery officials said.

The winning ticket in Tuesday's night's drawing in Atlanta was sold at Gateway Newsstand on Lenox Road, state lottery officials confirmed to ABC News. The luck winner in San Jose purchased their ticket from Jenny's Gift Shop on Tully Road, California lottery officials said.

The winning numbers were: 8, 14, 17, 20, 39; Mega Ball: 7. The cash option is estimated at $341 million, before taxes.

The two grand prize winners will share the jackpot, which could grow closer to $645 million, Virginia lottery director Paula Otto told ABC News. The exact size of the jackpot will be available later today once sales figures are compiled.

The $636 million jackpot grew from a modest $12 million prize in October. Twenty-one winless drawings later, it became the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, according to lottery officials. The record jackpot was a $656 million Mega Millions prize in March 2012.

If winning numbers were not selected in Tuesday night's drawing, lottery officials estimated that the jackpot could have hit $1 billion next week.

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Devyani Khobragate reveals how she 'broke down' after 'stripping and cavity searches'

India scaled back security outside the U.S. embassy in New Delhi and revoked transit privileges for American diplomats as a row deepened over the arrest and strip-search of a consular official in New York.

The Indian official, Devyani Khobragade, 39, who was arrested on Dec. 12, wrote in an e-mail to colleagues that she was subjected to cavity search during detention.

“I broke down many times as the indignities of repeated handcuffing, stripping and cavity searches, swabbing, in a holdup with common criminals and drug addicts were all being imposed upon me despite my incessant assertions of immunity,” she wrote.

India retaliated by removing concrete barricades outside the consular section of the U.S. embassy in the nation’s capital, cancelling airport passes for U.S. diplomats and freezing import requests, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said in parliament on Wednesday.

Mounting tensions threaten to damage what has otherwise been a decade of collaboration between the world’s two biggest democracies as they deepen trade and defense ties and strengthen cooperation to fight terrorism. During his visit in November 2010, President Barack Obama called the relationship with India, a Cold War ally of the Soviet Union, “one of the defining and indispensable partnerships of the 21st century.”

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TTC not sure what caused morning train delay at Kipling Station

A Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) train which stopped near Kipling Station Wednesday morning was not caused by a derailment as initially believed, according to spokesperson Danny Nicholson.

Preliminary reports by a TTC official had indicated the train traveling westbound towards Kipling came off its track at 8:55 a.m., but further investigation indicated that was not the case.

Nicholson said approximately 60 passengers were on board and no one was hurt. The TTC says everyone was removed from the train with the help of police and firefighters.

Sherline Tavaya was stuck on the westbound train between Kipling and Islington Stations just after 7:45 a.m.

The train stopped just after leaving Islington station, and didn’t move for close to an hour. Tavaya said there was no information other than a repetitive message about “signal problems.”

The train then started moving slowly, and when it was approximately 50 feet from Kipling station, Tavaya said it jerked to a stop.

“We were stuck there, like the train sort of just jerked on the rails and it was like a huge bump and then we stopped,” she said. “There was nothing being said except the constant same message that there [were] signal problems and that response personnel have been dispatched.”

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Short Hills mall might consider security changes after fatal carjacking

As shoppers returned to the Mall at Short Hills today, the manager of the upscale shopping center said mall officials might consider making changes to its security plan in the aftermath of last night's fatal carjacking.

Michael J. McAvinue, the mall's general manager, said stores opened at 8 a.m., as scheduled. The lower levels of the parking garage where shopper Dustin Friedland was shot Sunday night re-opened this afternoon.

Police are searching for two assailants who fled in Friedland's silver Range Rover after shooting the Hoboken attorney in the head as he returned to his car with his wife around 9:10 p.m. The car was found today behind a vacant house in Newark, near Route 78.

McAvinue declined to comment on the shooting, which he said remains an active police investigation.

"Our number one priority is the safety of our customers and our store employees, and we are doing everything we can to cooperate with police," McAvinue said.

When asked about mall security, McAvinue said the shopping center officials would consider reviewing procedures in response to the shooting.

"We have a very good security program in place. Would we be willing to review that? Absolutely," he said.

The Mall at Short Hills uses an outside contractor, International Protection Corporation, to provide security for the inside and outside of the mall, McAvinue said.

International Protection Corporation, based in Illinois, is a large firm that provides security to malls and shopping centers around the country.

Source: nj

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Email triggers evacuations, canceled exams at Harvard

The bomb scare at Harvard University today was triggered by an e-mail warning that explosives had been planted in four buildings at the heart of the storied campus, according to a law enforcement official.

At 2:44 p.m., the university announced that the Science Center, the last of the four buildings, had been deemed safe. Law enforcement officials had already combed through and cleared Thayer Hall, a freshman dorm, and Sever and Emerson halls, two buildings that contain lecture halls.

Thayer, Emerson, and Sever are all located inside the ancient Harvard Yard section of the campus. The Science Center stands just outside the Yard.

According to the school’s academic calendar, final exams are scheduled for this week for undergraduates.

College officials said they were working to identify and reschedule exams that were disrupted by evacuations of the buildings. Officials also planned to make an announcement about the impact on afternoon exams as soon as possible, a university spokesman said in an e-mail.

President Obama was briefed this morning about the events taking place at his alma mater, a White House official said. Obama attended Harvard Law School, which has its own campus near the Science Center and the Yard.

“We continue to encourage the public to follow directions from the local officials. The White House will remain in touch with our federal, state, and local partners and the president will continue to receive briefings as needed,” the official said.

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Bengals grades against the Pittsburgh Steelers

Quarterback: Despite a few passes being off-target, Andy Dalton didn't turn the football over and he played as well as someone without a serviceable offensive line or reliable receivers could play. After completing only two of his first ten passes, Dalton would go on to complete 23 of his next 34 with two touchdowns. Dalton ended up going 25 for 44 with 230 yards passing and two scores.

Grade: B-

Running Back: Granted the Bengals were facing a 21-point deficit with over a minute remaining in the first quarter, but when the Bengals actually ran, it just wasn't there. Blocking is a huge reason and BenJarvus Green-Ellis is clearly dealing with lingering flu-like issues and only ran the ball four times. Giovani Bernard scored a touchdown, but only averaged 2.5 yards/rush.

Grade: C-

Wide Receivers: Not impressed. Most of what A.J. Green earned on Sunday was the result of curl routes. Perhaps a few of the throws were off-target but Green wasn't applying the description of being someone that makes difficult receptions. And he's even dropping some of the easier throws. Marvin Jones played well with five receptions, 48 yards receiving and a fourth quarter touchdown.

Grade: C-

Tight Ends: Maybe it's Jay Gruden. But I can't possibly be more disappointed in how the Bengals have applied their tight ends recently. Jermaine Gresham wasn't very effective against the Steelers, even losing a fumble during a long third down conversion that he fought honorably for. Tyler Eifert hasn't had the targets we had hoped for. Both combined for six receptions for 56 yards receiving and a touchdown.

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