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Concerns raised about claims denials and rate hikes. With the insurance industry serving as the whipping boy in the national debate on health care, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has subpoenaed financial records and other documents from California's seven largest health insurance companies.

Nominees for Britain's the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards. Nominations for the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, honoring achievement in theater, opera and dance in London:

SPOKANE, Wash. - Her name in Japanese means ``future,'' but there were times last year when Mirai Nagasu's time already seemed past at 15. She had gone over to the ``dark side,'' she said, becoming moody and mutinous. Her body was playing pubescent tricks on her. She went to the US Figure Skating Championships as defending titlist and finished a tear-spattered fifth, missing the world team. Was Nagasu a one-hit wonder, the Toni Basil of figure skating? ``She won so early that it was a shock and a surprise,'' said her coach, Frank Carroll. So, too, was last year's implosion. Now with her annus horribilis behind her and the Winter Games less than a month away, Nagasu figures to be in the mix this week for one of the two spots for Vancouver at the US Championships here, in what may be the most wide-open women's competition in history. At least seven skaters have a chance to earn a ticket: Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen, fellow Turin teammate Emily Hughes, defending US champion Alissa

Erich Segal, author of best-selling novel 'Love Story,' dies in London at age 72. Erich Segal, the Ivy League professor who attained mainstream fame and made millions sob as writer of the novel and movie "Love Story," has died of a heart attack, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 72.

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - With a new year ahead, video game publishers are returning to their roots and core gamers to maintain sales at a time when a contraction in the industry is expected to mean fewer overall new releases.

Winter storms move out of Calif., no major mudslides reported in LA-area wildfire burn areas. Heavy rain tapered off, skies cleared and residents of the Los Angeles area foothills started returning home Sunday, a day after they fled because of fears that heavy rains would cause mudslides.

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ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - Zenyatta scored the biggest victory of her illustrious career Saturday by coming from last to first to win the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic.

ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - Zenyatta, trained by John Shirreffs and ridden by Mike Smith, became the first female to win the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic with a spectacular late finish at Santa Anita Park on Saturday.

ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - French filly Goldikova came from well off the pace to win the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile for the second straight year on Saturday.

ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - English raider Pounced produced a dramatic stretch run to overtake Bridgetown and win the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf by three-quarters of a length at Santa Anita Park Saturday.

ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - Life is Sweet emerged from the shadow of undefeated stablemate Zenyatta by roaring to a 2 1/2-length triumph in the $2 million Breeders Cup Ladies' Classic at Santa Anita Park on Friday.

ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - Kentucky Derby champion Mine That Bird is primed to pull off another shocker in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic, trainer Chip Woolley said Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday.

Obama administration makes available $3.4B for developing a 'smart' electric grid. President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation's power grid.

Obama administration makes available $3.4B for developing a 'smart' electric grid. President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation's power grid.

ARCADIA, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced $3.4 billion in grants to help build a "smart" electric grid meant to trim utility bills, reduce blackouts and carry power generated by solar and wind energy.

President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.

Mo. woman sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping 5-year-old Kansas girl. A 43-year-old Missouri woman who already has been sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences for a 2006 crime spree has been given another one.