Reuters - "Grey's Anatomy" and ABC won the primetime ratings Sunday despite a "Desperate Housewives" repeat, a brief spillover of NCAA basketball on CBS and Tony's fight for life on HBO's "The Sopranos."

Reuters - The average price U.S. drivers paid for gasoline soared 13.8 cents, the third biggest weekly increase on record, to hit $2.50 a gallon for the first time since last October, the government said on Monday.

AP - In the desert chill, on the lonely nighttime roads of Iraq, Joe Johnson looks out over his machine gun and thinks of Justin. It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain and a colonel appeared on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news. Justin, the boy Joe had fished and hunted with, the soldier son who'd gone off to Iraq a month earlier, was suddenly dead at 22, killed by a roadside bomb planted in a Baghdad slum.

AFP - A copyright bill before the French parliament on downloading music and films from the Internet could induce the leading online music store, Apple Computer's iTunes, to leave France as it would be opposed to opening up its proprietary system, several experts said.

AP - In the desert chill, on the lonely nighttime roads of Iraq, Joe Johnson looks out over his machine gun and thinks of Justin. It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain and a colonel appeared on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news. Justin, the boy Joe had fished and hunted with, the soldier son who'd gone off to Iraq a month earlier, was suddenly dead at 22, killed by a roadside bomb planted in a Baghdad slum.

AP - New York City and Savannah, Ga., are marking St. Patrick's Day today with the nation's biggest parades.

AP - Justin Williams and Ray Whitney each scored twice and Eric Staal got his 40th goal as the Carolina Hurricanes moved atop the NHL's overall standings Thursday night with a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens.

Reuters - U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday proposed $3.9 million in fines against scores of television broadcasters for violating federal decency limits, including a record $3.6 million for stations that aired a show depicting group sex.

AP - A government crackdown on indecent programming resulted in a proposed fine of $3.6 million against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates on Wednesday — a record penalty from the Federal Communications Commission.

AP - The government proposed a record fine of $3.6 million against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates Wednesday in a crackdown on what regulators called indecent television programming.

AP - The government proposed a fine of $3.6 million against CBS and dozens of its stations and affiliates Wednesday in a crackdown on what regulators called indecent television programming.

AP - Ryan Howard hit his spring training-leading seventh home run, helping the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 Monday.

AFP - Knight Ridder agreed to a 6.5-billion-dollar buyout by the McClatchy Company in a deal creating the second largest US newspaper publisher.

AP - Steve Nash tied his season high with 31 points and added 11 assists in his return to the lineup, and the Phoenix Suns beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 110-102 Saturday night.

AP - If these are Steve McClain's final days as coach at Wyoming, the Cowboys are sure making them memorable. Justin Williams' triple-double and Brad Jones' 20 points led seventh-seeded Wyoming (14-17) into the championship of the Mountain West Conference with a 60-47 semifinal victory over sixth-seeded Utah on Friday night.

AFP - Bill Gates gained ground at the top of the megarich rankings as the world's wealthiest people added 400 billion dollars to their net worth, according to Forbes magazine's annual list.

AP - Justin Ingram made two free throws with 9.4 seconds left as Toledo continued its late-season rush, holding off Northern Illinois 78-77 in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference tournament on Thursday.

AFP - US digital television recording pioneer Tivo has allied with Verizon Wireless to enable customers to use cell phones to control TV set-top recorders, the companies announced.

AFP - US digital television recording pioneer TiVo announced that it had teamed with family-values groups to create a tool to shield children's eyes from adult programming.

Reuters - Quick: Whose movie is "From Justin to Kelly?" If you said that it belongs to Robert Iscove, the director, then you will have gladdened the hearts of French film theoreticians and their American kind. If you said it is Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson's, then you're either kindly disposed to young talent or suspiciously fond of shooting fish in a barrel.