MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A Minnesota judge Thursday extended his injunction allowing five suspended players to play despite apparently violating the league's substance-abuse policy.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the NFL's suspensions of five players, who had allegedly violated league's anti-doping policy.

NEW ORLEANS, May 21 (UPI) -- New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant went to Georgia Wednesday to face an involuntary manslaughter charge, The Times-Picayune reported.

ATLANTA, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A pregnant woman was killed and New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant was stabbed in the neck in an incident in Georgia, it was reported Sunday.

BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Pro-European Union countries have created a contingency plan to proceed even if Britain rejects the draft constitution, The Telegraph said Tuesday.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Aaron Brooks threw a pair of touchdown passes Sunday afternoon to help New Orleans turn back the Chicago Bears, 20-13.

WASHINGTON, April 4 (UPI) -- The rebuilding of post-war Iraq should be also used as an opportunity for mending the dramatic strategic and ideological rift between the United States and its European allies, according to foreign policy experts at a think tank symposium in Washington on

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On an afternoon filled with impressive comebacks, the defending Super Bowl champions won a game that had a familiar ring to it.