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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is stepping down at the end of his five year term, becoming the first democratically elected president in the country’s history to complete his full tenure in office.
His spokesman Farhatullah Babar sa...

LITHIA — Sydney Guenther led the North Port High School girls cross country team to a second-place finish at the Newsome Invitational on Saturday.
Guenther finished fifth in 20:37.90 as H.B. Plant’s Bailey Sullivan (19:38.30) took first.
The Bobcat boys d...

LEHIGH ACRES — Three years ago, Charlotte junior Michaela Flowers didn’t even know cross country was a high school sport.
On Saturday at the Fort Myers Optimist Invitational, Flowers was one of the Tarpons’ top two finishers for the second week in a row. ...

LEHIGH ACRES — Port Charlotte High School junior Tyler Fisher wants to be a state champion. Maybe not this year, but before he graduates.
His goal for this year is simpler: to get his 5-kilometer time down to 15:50.
Fisher placed sixth at the Fort Myers O...

LEHIGH ACRES — As Matt Egloff was addressing his DeSoto County High School football team after Saturday’s game, senior Dequan Richardson sat back on his elbows on the Lehigh turf, his face contorted in pain.
It was the vise-like pain of a cramp in his rig...

This column should be read while listening to “Lullaby of London” by the Pogues (running time: 3 minutes, 32 seconds).
• Denver Broncos linebacker Danny Trevathan committed the biggest bonehead play of the NFL season on Thursday night — frankly, because ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Ivan Pineyro and Frank Del Valle combined on a five-hit shutout as the Daytona Cubs beat the Charlotte Stone Crabs, 2-0 to move within a win of their second Florida State League championship in three years.
After Saturday’s win, the Cubs h...

(AP) — NASA’s newest robotic explorer rocketed into space late Friday in an unprecedented moonshot from Virginia that dazzled sky watchers along the East Coast.
But the LADEE spacecraft quickly ran into equipment trouble, and while NASA assured everyone ...

BOYNTON BEACH (The Palm Beach Post) — Angel Soto Jr. knows how good it feels to be a hero.
On Oct. 29, as he was helping a man who had just been in a car crash on Old Boynton Road, another vehicle slammed into Soto’s right leg so hard doctors were forced ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The European Union agreed on Saturday that the Aug. 21 chemical attack outside Damascus appears to have been the work of Syria’s regime, but that any potential military attack against it should wait for a U.N. inspectors’ report....