Brodeur sets record for NHL goaltenders ... Woods named PGA Tour player of the year ... College bowl season opens Saturday ... Weather threat changes Ravens game time ... Sports news from United Press International.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Actor Morgan Freeman says he spent more than a decade preparing to play South African President Nelson Mandela on the big screen.
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Martin Brodeur set a record for most games played by an NHL goaltender Friday and made 27 saves in leading New Jersey past Ottawa 4-2.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Rene Russo is to play Frigga, the mother of the title character in Kenneth Branagh's upcoming comic-book adaptation "Thor," sources told Variety.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Three West African men who allegedly said they had ties with al-Qaida were charged Friday in New York under a law targeting narcoterrorism.
TORONTO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- DeMar DeRozan scored nine points during a huge first period Friday and Toronto coasted to a 118-95 victory over New Jersey.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Professional U.S. football player Tom Brady and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen announced Friday they have named their 10-day-old son Benjamin.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A bomb threat note that turned out to be baseless kept an American Airlines jetliner grounded for hours Friday in Austin, Texas, an airport official said.
BARTOW, Fla., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Florida man was charged Friday with killing his former boss, a pilot who vanished more than a year ago.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Baltimore Ravens said Friday a continuing threat of bad weather had forced them to push back the opening kickoff for Sunday's game against Chicago.
LAWRENCE, Kan., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Kansas University will pay former football coach Mark Mangino a $3 million settlement after his resignation under fire this month.
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A jury convicted a West Virginia woman of first-degree murder Friday for walking into an intensive care unit and shooting her estranged husband in the head.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A winter storm headed north Friday, dumping snow in the mountains of western North Carolina.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Tiger Woods, embroiled in personal issues that will keep him away from golf indefinitely, was named Friday as the 2009 PGA Tour Player of the Year.
ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The major college bowl season begins Saturday with the playing of the first two of the 33 games that will lead to the crowning of a national champion.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- West Virginia assistant John "Doc" Holliday Friday was named the next head football coach at intrastate rival Marshall University.
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An Irish bishop has resigned after being criticized in a report saying the Irish Catholic Church covered up priests' sexual abuse of Dublin children.
MILW, Wis., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Milwaukee School Board voted unanimously to allow condoms to be distributed at many city high schools.
GARY, Ind., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An Indiana doctor accused of healthcare fraud and on the run for five years has been arrested in northern Italy, the FBI confirms.
DALLAS, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A member of the Dallas "Scarecrow Bandits" bank robbing gang was sentenced to almost 16 years in prison, authorities say.
