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The Cleveland Indians fired manager Eric Wedge in the final days of a terrible season. Wedge guided the Indians to one playoff appearance in seven seasons, and this year the club fell out of contention early and is currently one game out of last place in the AL Central. The Indians, who are 64-92, have scheduled a Wednesday afternoon news conference at Progressive Field to announce Wedge’s…

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of up to 8.3 struck in the South Pacific between Samoa and American Samoa around dawn Tuesday, sending terrified residents fleeing for higher ground as a tsunami swept ashore, flattening at least one village. Samoa officials report an unspecified number of deaths and injuries from the tsunami.

At Table No. 1 at Michael’s, the best seats on the silly power-lunch circuit in Midtown Manhattan, Charlie Rose is holding forth in fabulousness. America’s tallest, handsomest, best-connected, most inquisitive, most talkative late-night TV interviewer is greeting media princess Tina Brown and her husband, Sir Harold Evans.

ONGOING EVENTS: FREE BEAD NIGHTS AND JEWELRY MAKING CLASS Being offered year round at Buttercup Beads! Free community Bead Soiree nights twice a month, from 6 to 8 p.m. Huge variety of jewelry making classes also available for novice and/or experienced beaders. Check Web site for dates and details at www.buttercupbeads.com. Buttercup Beads, 2151 E. High Street …

Melissa Gilbert may not feel old, but the rest of us sure do. The star of TV’s long-running “Little House on the Prairie” — she played the young Laura Ingalls — is back on the prairie. Only now, at 45, she’s onstage, in a musical version at New …

Melissa Gilbert may not feel old, but the rest of us sure do. The star of TV’s long-running “Little House on the Prairie” — she played the young Laura Ingalls — is back on the prairie. Only now, at 45, she’s onstage, in a musical version at New …

William Safire, a onetime speechwriter for President Nixon who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has died at age 79, the newspaper announced Sunday.

Swiss police detained Oscar winning film director Roman Polanski on a US warrant over three-decade-old charges of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, a film festival’s organisers said Sunday.

LEXINGTON, Ky.(AP) With one scary hit on Tim Tebow , another Florida laugher turned into the Gators’ worst fear. Tebow was knocked out of Florida’s 41-7 victory against Kentucky after taking a hard shot to the head in the third quarter.

Ten Sports, the most watched sports channel in the Indian sub-continent, and NBC Universal Digital Solutions (NBCUDS), a wholly owned digital subsidiary of NBC Universal, have entered into an agreement to develop and launch www.tensports.com, a free, cricket-focused multiplatform sports portal targeting the region’s fast growing digital audience.