Seattle Daily News

Coming off a late-season run that included plenty of close victories, Marquette has been rewarded with a pleasant surprise: A higher-than-expected No. 6 seed in the NCAA tournament.

Washington, winner of the Pac-10 tournament, earned a No. 11 seed in East region of the NCAA tournament, and will travel to San Jose, Calif., to meet Marquette on Thursday.

Monty Charlie greets them with his shirt off, sweat on his brow and a chisel in his hand.

Georgians have been panicked by a hoax television news program announcing the Russian army had invaded and killed President Mikhail Saakashvili.

Brady Quinn will get a chance to start over in Denver. Whether he'll get to start is up in the air.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki edged ahead Sunday in a tight race in the country's parliamentary elections after partial results from all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed his bloc leading in seven - two more than his chief rival.

We're not finished with the bracketologists just yet. Washington settled the matter of whether it will get in the NCAA tournament, but now let's take a look at where they'll land in the bracket.

Felix Hernandez pitched out of early trouble, allowing four hits over 2 2-3 innings in the Mariners' 5-4 loss to Colorado on Sunday.

The Jets have signed running back LaDainian Tomlinson to a two-year contract, adding an aging star to an offense that ranked No. 1 in rushing last season.

ROCKIES WIN 5-4 --- Sorry for the break here. Had to run and do some interviews. Colorado took a 5-2 lead and the Mariners then scored two in the ninth, but the game ended on a screamer caught at third hit by Ackley.

Key results from a landmark federal study are in, and the results are disappointing for diabetics: Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current targets did not prevent heart problems, and in some cases caused harmful side effects.

The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon came to Haiti on Sunday to offer assurances of his commitment to a post-earthquake nation that is short of shelter and suffering growing violence in teeming camps for the homeless.

The stock market doesn't want any surprises from this week's Federal Reserve's meeting.