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(CNN) -- Coast Guard and Air National Guard crews spent a second day in search of four sailors from a yacht that ran aground off San Francisco over the weekend, the services said Sunday. At least one person died and three were rescued from the "Low Speed Chase," Petty Officer 2nd Class Levi Read...

AP - Social issues dominated the 2012 presidential race Friday, as President Barack Obama tried to calm a storm over religion and birth control and the Republicans vying to replace him jockeyed to outdo each other in proving their conservative fervor. More...

AP - Suddenly, Ron Paul is in contention to win the Iowa caucuses and do well in the New Hampshire primary two weeks before the first votes are cast, reflecting the fluidity of the Republican presidential race as well as the inability of the party's social conservative, tea party and...

AP - Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich's trailing rivals derided the leading presidential contenders on Sunday as insufficiently conservative, each trying to find a second wind in the race to become the Republican nominee with time running out before voting begins. More...

AP - Herman Cain's rise as a presidential contender was supposed to prove that race didn't matter in the Republican Party. Cain is fast making it the only thing that does. More...

Nova Scotia MP Robert Chisholm has joined the federal NDP leadership race, becoming the eighth candidate for the job. More...

(CNN) -- Dan Wheldon won the Indianapolis 500 Sunday, making a mad dash past rookie J.R. Hildebrand in the last stretch of the race. Hildebrand crashed at the end, almost winning the race by sliding on three wheels. Wheldon dashed past Hildebrand to take the championship, in the 100th year of...

After a thunderstorm kept the crowd down for Denny Hamlin's charity race, the host put a move on Kyle Busch on the final lap and finally won his own event. "The way the wrecks happened and the restarts, we were just in the right line at the right time and we were able to pull it out," Hamlin...

LOS ANGELES – Cord and Jet McCoy are saddling up for another season of "The Amazing Race." The bull-riding brothers are among the 11 veteran teams competing on the 18th edition of CBS' around-the-world competition (premiering Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. EST), the network announced Wednesday. Other...

CONCORD - Construction crews using dump trucks and excavators have begun preparations for the debut of the world's largest HD video board at Charlotte Motor Speedway's 2011 May race events. Crews from Granite Contracting, of Concord, N.C., are using the heavy earth-moving equipment this week...

Kevin Liles/US Presswire For the fifth time in as many years, Jimmie Johnson is NASCAR's No. 1 driver. HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Smooth and steady, five years running, Jimmie Johnson kept his NASCAR reign rolling. Johnson stretched his record run of championships to a five straight titles by making...

FORT WORTH, Texas – Jeff Gordon was fighting mad and now teammate Jimmie Johnson is in quite a fight of his own in his drive for an unprecedented fifth championship in a row. Johnson lost his points lead to Denny Hamlin with two races left in a close three-way Chase for the Sprint Cup after...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Denny Hamlin wanted only to leave Talladega Superspeedway with Jimmie Johnson still in his sights in the tense race for the NASCAR championship. Mission accomplished after a furious final push Sunday gave Hamlin a ninth-place finish — just two spots behind the four-time...

Kentucky added to Sprint Cup schedule DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., NASCAR officials announced Wednesday a new track will be added to the Sprint Cup schedule for the first time in a decade. In addition, the 2011 schedule calls for the championship chase to begin in Chicago rather than Loudon, N.H...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered "bodies everywhere" moments after sailing off a jump at a California race Saturday, killing eight people and leaving 12 injured, authorities and witnesses...

Castroneves fined for fight with officials INDIANAPOLIS, IZOD IndyCar Series officials Tuesday fined driver Helio Castroneves $60,000 and placed him on probation for the remainder of the season. The discipline came as a result of Castroneves' meltdown following last month's race in Edmonton...

Armstrong's team faces jersey discipline AIGLE, Switzerland, Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack has been targeted for a disciplinary hearing for wearing inappropriate jerseys, cycling officials said Monday. The International Cycling Union said in a release from its Aigle, Switzerland...

Once again, horses prove faster than men LLANWRTYD WELLS, Wales, (UPI) -- As has happened almost every year since 1980, a horse won the annual Man vs. Horse race Saturday in Wales . Sly Dai covered 22 miles of mixed terrain on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in 2 hours and 7 minutes, The...

Catholic Horses One day while he was at the track playing the ponies and all but losing his shirt, Mitch noticed a priest who stepped out onto the track and blessed the forehead of one of the horses lining up for the 4th race. Lo and behold, that horse...a very long shot...won the race. As...

Alpine organisers: It's time to race WHISTLER (AFP) International ski officials have finally given the green light for the opening alpine races of the Olympic Games after a largely positive teams captains' meeting here Sunday. Adverse weather in recent days has hampered the staging of the...