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South Korean sets home run record with 9 straight (AP)
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean slugger Lee Dae-ho has set a Japanese major league record by hitting home runs in nine consecutive games. Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Dale Long share Major League Baseball’s mark by hitting home runs in eight straight games.
Man Returned to Stolen Car With Gas
If you’re driving a stolen car, you might want to avoid driving past the courthouse and jail. And if it runs out of gas, you should probably just ditch it and run away.
Obama to Tour Ford Plant, Fundraise
Chicago – President Obama woke up in his home bed Thursday morning in Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side. Thursday morning, Obama is scheduled to appear at a Ford Plan on Torrence Avenue on the city’s far South Side to tout economic recovery.
One man arrested, another sought after cop hit by car
Chicago police arrest a suspect after an officer was struck while chasing a stolen car this morning on the South Side . (WGN-TV) Police have arrested one man and are searching for another after a Chicago police officer was struck while chasing a stolen car this morning on the South Side .
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North Korea threatens ‘nuclear war’ over troop exercises
South Koreans take a look at the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Busan. the ship is about to take part in large-scale military exercises in the Sea of Japan Photograph: Lee Jin-Man/AP North Korea has threatened to use its “nuclear deterrent” in response to planned military exercises by the US and South Korea this weekend.
SKorea bank raises forecast to 5.9 percent growth (AP)
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s central bank raised its forecast for the country’s economic growth this year to 5.9 percent on solid exports as well as capital and consumer spending amid a stronger global recovery. The Bank of Korea, which had previously expected an expansion of 5.2 percent in 2010, made the revision Monday in a report on the economic outlook for the second half of the year.
Suarez double fires Uruguay into quarter-finals (AFP)
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AFP) – Uruguay became the first country to make it into the World Cup quarter-finals with a 2-1 win over South Korea at a sodden Nelson Mandela Bay stadium here on Saturday. Goals in either half from Luis Suarez earned Uruguay, who last made the quarter-finals in 1970 before finishing fourth, a last eight date with either the United States or Ghana — who play later on Saturday — in Johannesburg on July 2.
Uruguay beat South Korea, reach last eight (AFP)
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AFP) – Uruguay reached the World Cup quarter-finals on Saturday after beating South Korea 2-1 in Port Elizabeth. Luis Suarez netted after eight minutes only for Lee Chung-Yong to head the Koreans level in the 68th minute.
Uruguay lead South Korea 1-0 at half-time (AFP)
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AFP) – Uruguay were leading South Korea 1-0 at half-time in the first of the World Cup’s last 16 ties at the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium on Saturday. South Korea almost caught Uruguay on the hop in the fifth minute when a superbly taken freekick by Park Chu Young from 25m curled past the Uruguayan’s wall only to ricochet off keeper Fernando Muslera’s right post.