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BOSTON (AP) — Erik Bedard allowed two hits over six innings to win his seventh straight decision, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 5-3 on Tuesday night despite two homers by David Ortiz.

A Somali man linked to a plot to blow up a shopping mall pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

Because the seizure John G. Roberts Jr. suffered on Monday was his second, he meets the criteria for epilepsy.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two misplays by Pirates catcher Ronny Paulino in the same at-bat helped St. Louis score the go-ahead run in the sixth inning, and the Cardinals won their fourth in a row by extending Pittsburgh’s July slide with a 6-4 victory Tuesday night.

Marathon Oil said it had agreed to buy Western Oil Sands of Calgary, Alberta, for $5.5 billion in cash and stock, giving it a stake in Canada?s oil sands market. Shareholders of Western Oil will get $3.6 billion in cash and Marathon stock worth about $1.9 billion. Marathon will also assume $650 million of Western Oil?s debt, valuing the deal at about $6.2 billion. As part of the deal, Western has to spin off WesternZagros, a wholly owned subsidiary with interests in Kurdistan.

A study financed by the Pentagon found that mothers in Army families were about twice as likely to physically abuse them when their soldier husbands were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his first shot at baseball immortality, Tom Glavine pitched six masterly innings Tuesday. But Guillermo Mota gave up the tying run in the eighth to deny Glavine his personal milestone.

Investigators looking for human remains outside a home in Ocean City where a woman is accused of stashing four dead fetuses have finished their search without finding any more bodies.

SEATTLE (AP) — Gary Matthews Jr. found that sometimes less is more. Less thinking. Less selectivity. Less remembering his last home run.

The lawyer for a surgeon charged with prescribing excessive drugs to a disabled patient to speed up his death says his client has been the subject of a ?witch hunt.?