Dad's death shock [Edition 4]

BRYNAMAN A 27-year-old dad of one has collapsed and died afterfalling ill at a briefing …

Meszaros, Sens Rally Past Rangers 3-2

NEW YORK - Andrej Meszaros' bank shot off the stick of New York Rangers defenseman Marek Malik snapped a third-period tie and lifted the Ottawa Senators to a 3-2 victory Tuesday night.

Meszaros rushed up the slot and took a shot that connected with Malik's stick, hit the right post and caromed past Henrik Lundqvist with 8:48 left. The defenseman hadn't scored in 21 games.

Ottawa, which erased a 2-0 …

Christian Camargo stars in a stylish 'Hamlet'

The current off-Broadway revival of "Hamlet" is modern, streamlined and primarily black and white, but there is plenty of color, as always, in the centuries-old richness of Shakespeare's words.

Christian Camargo acquits himself admirably as Hamlet, the young Danish prince whose dead father's ghost tells tell him that he was killed by his own brother Claudius. Hamlet was already disgusted by the "wicked spectacle" of his mother so quickly marrying Claudius within two months of his father's death. Now he must contend with his father's desire for revenge and with the treachery of nearly everyone in his life.

Appropriately dark and broody, …

Scowcroft sees Soviet peril // Says crisis threatens arms talks

WASHINGTON President Bush's national security adviser said Mondaythat Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was "in deep trouble" and"very unpopular" at home and that the current pullback from reformcould trigger a new period of "sterile relations and some hostility"between the superpowers.

Brent Scowcroft assessed the crisis in the Soviet Union inexceptionally blunt terms as he also renewed the administration'swarning that it would not sign a strategic arms reduction treaty, orSTART, with Moscow until disagreements over the interpretation of thenew conventional arms accord are cleared up.

In a speech here to the European Council of the AmericanChambers of …

Jordan militant demands release of terror suspects

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The brother of a Jordanian militant who killed seven CIA workers in Afghanistan demanded Sunday that Jordan's government release terrorist suspects.

Mohammed al-Balawi warned that militants will "hunt down" Jordanian authorities who he accused of torturing detainees.

"I'm sending this clear warning to the Jordanian government: Release all the Muslim (militant) detainees and prisoners, or you will open a door nobody will be able to close," al-Balawi said. He declined to elaborate. Jordanian jihadists typically use the word "Muslim" to describe members of their movement, whose hard-line members see themselves as the true followers of Islam.

His threat …

English Soccer Results

Results Sunday in English soccer (home teams listed first):

Premier …

Freezer death: trial date set

Bristol: Matthew Roberts, aged 28, formerly of Hanham, deniesmurdering Mr Heal between January 3 and January 14 this year.

Yesterday at Bristol Crown Court, the Honourable Mr Justice Royceadjourned the case pending a trial set for March 7 next year.Roberts was remanded in custody.

AVONMOUTH: Firefighters were called to Bristol Vending Services onBurcott Road at about 10pm yesterday.

An electrical fault in a Ford Escort next to the building causedthe car to go up in flames. The fire spread to the building, guttinghalf the ground-floor office. The first floor of the buildingsuffered smoke …