Playbill - Martin Short is no longer the only announced cast member of Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, the new Broadway-bound show conceived by Tony Award winner Short and Hairspray's Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

AP - Peter Bondra scored 1:03 into overtime to give the Atlanta Thrashers a 6-5 win over New Jersey on Thursday night and a four-game season sweep of the Devils.

AP - European Union leaders risked another bad-tempered summit Thursday after weeks of protectionist sniping over attempts to shield companies from takeovers cast doubt on the EU's much-vaunted border-free market.

AFP - Sir Bobby Robson has said Martin O'Neill cannot be overlooked when the Football Association consider who should succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson as England coach.

Reuters - Freddie Mac , the second-largest U.S. mortgage funding company which is still recovering from an accounting scandal, said on Wednesday that Chief Financial Officer Martin Baumann has resigned.

Reuters - An agreement between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers that would give some blue-collar workers payouts of up to $100,000 to retire early will be announced on Wednesday, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Martin Kane Kuper announces that Robert Zullo Jr. has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the practice areas of commercial, real estate, probate and estate planning law. [PRWEB Mar 22, 2006]

AP - It's only an exhibition soccer match, with the undermanned United States squad as the opponent. Still, Germany is filled with angst.

AP - Colorado guard Richard Roby wants to follow half-brother Kenyon Martin to the NBA, forgoing his final two seasons of eligibility to enter the draft.

AP - Kari Lehtonen stopped 20 shots for his second shutout of the season and the Atlanta Thrashers stayed close in the playoff race with a 5-0 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night.

AP - Carlos Santana quoted his old friend Jimi Hendrix in an anti-war message here Monday and said his philosophy is the antithesis of President George W. Bush's.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Hampton, GA (AHN) - Kasey Kahne wins Dodge's first race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway since 1977 on Monday. He took the lead of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Golden Corral 500 with 75 laps to go, and finished 1.929 seconds ahead of Mark Martin, who drove a Fusion Ford....

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Minneapolis, MN (AHN) - After 46 years in politics, Rep. Martin Sabo says he is retiring. The Minnesota Democrat says Congress has become more polarized and decided it was time to quit. Sabo says, "I've always believed the fundamental problem with politics...

Reuters - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on Monday confirmed that Verizon Communications' request to exempt it from numerous regulations on its business broadband data services had been approved by default.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Dallas, Texas (AHN) - Lockheed Martin Corp. announces Monday that it has received an order worth $45.6 million for tactical missiles. The world's top defense contractor says its facilities in Dallas and Horizon City, Texas will work on the quick reaction...

AP - Rep. Martin Sabo is retiring after 46 years in state and national politics, saying Congress has become more polarized and less hardworking during his years there.

AFP - Stephen Fleming led New Zealand to an emphatic 10-wicket victory over the West Indies on the fourth day of the second cricket Test, to wrap up the series 2-0 with a game to spare here.

AP - After an extraordinary week in which confessed al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui's death-penalty trial was sidetracked to plumb the depths of a government lawyer's misdeeds, the jury is returning to hear evidence by the FBI agent who arrested Moussaoui weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

AP - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight against segregation, retired from the ministry Sunday, delivering his final sermon as pastor of the church he founded 40 years ago.

AP - Curtis Joseph was impressed with the challenge the Chicago Blackhawks gave him. Joseph was sharp Sunday in making 34 saves during the Phoenix Coyotes' 3-2 victory over the Blackhawks. Things got even tougher once Mark Cullen cut Chicago's deficit to one goal with 3:16 left.