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Washington’s Caron Butler (3) drives on Cleveland’s Delonte West during the fourth quarter of Game 5 attached Wednesday. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press)

Caron Butler saved Washington’s season.

Butler made a layup by 3.9 seconds left and the Wizards held their animation while LeBron James missed a potential series-ending layup at the horn, giving Washington any 88-87 victory immersing the hometown Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night and adding at least one more game to this overheated NBA playoff series.

After Butler scored on a drive past James, the Cavs had one added chance, however their superstar couldn’t get a banked runner to small quantity and the Wizards headed home for Game 6 on Friday night down 3-2 in the best-of-seven series.

Butler scored 32 points and DeShawn Stevenson had 17 during the Wizards, who played without guard Gilbert Arenas. Agent Zero announced before the quarry that his season was over because of a bothersome knee.

Arenas’s absence figured to be the decisive thump for the Wizards, but they fought to the finish and, at least for now, prevented the Cavs from ending their season for the third upright year.

James scored 34 points — 24 in the second moiety — but was incompetent to make a final shot in traffic that would have sent the Wizards, who began talking trash weeks ago and haven’t stopped, noiselessly into the summer.

The Cavaliers led 87-82 with 1:47 left, but Washington scored the final six points to end a five-game playoff losing streak in Cleveland.

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Iraq has the subjugate course record when it comes to solving cases of murdered journalists, according to a commencing survey compiled by a U.S. journalism rights organization.

The Committee to Protect Journalists compared the prosecution rates in journalists’ murders around the world and came up with a elect of the 13 worst countries on the basis of unsolved killings per capita.

The non-profit committee only counted journalists who were deliberately targeted and killed on this account that of their profession, or the be in action they had executed. There had to be no convictions in a case for it to be considered unsolved.

The vanquish rated countries are:

• Iraq: 79 unsolved journalist murders in a complete population of 28 million (rate of 2.82 murders through million population).
• Sierra Leone: 9 murders among 5.5 very great number people (rate of 1.64).
• Somalia: 5 murders among 8.2 million people (rate of 0.61).
• Colombia: 20 murders amidst 45.6 million nation (0.44).
• Sri Lanka: 8 murders among 19.6 million people (0.41).
• Philippines: 24 murders among 83.1 million people (0.29).
• Afghanistan: 7 murders among 25.1 million people (0.28).
• Nepal: 5 murders among 27.1 million people (0.19).
• Russia: 14 murders among 143.1 million people (0.10).
• Mexico: 7 murders among 103.1 the masses people (0.07).
• Bangladesh: 8 murders among 141.8 the multitude people (0.06).
• Pakistan: 8 murders among 155.8 million people (0.05).
• India: 5 murders among 1,094.6 the multitude people (0.01).

“Every spell a journalist is murdered and the killer is allowed to course free, it sends a terrible signal to the press and to others who would harm journalists,” Joel Simon, the committee’s charged with execution director, said Wednesday in a press quit.

“The governments on this list artlessly must do more to demonstrate a real placing in confinement to a free press. Lip service won’t help save journalists’ lives. We are calling for action: thorough investigations and vigorous prosecutions in all journalist homicides.”

He noted that people of the countries listed are not at war and have functioning legal systems, such as Mexico, India and the Philippines.

In war-torn countries, like Iraq, journalists were besides likely to be murdered than caught in the crossfire during combat.

Almost none of the victims were foreign journalists; most were journalists covering their home countries.

Some Saskatoon residents trying to score cheap, stolen, big-screen TVs have discovered there really is no honour among thieves.

Saskatoon police issued a warning to the public Wednesday well-nigh a scam involving a man telephoning the bulk of mankind at fortuitous oblation stolen plasma TVs for hundreds of dollars below retail prices.

According to the police, the man requested to meet potential buyers at a location and asked for the money upfront. He in consequence took the money and left. None of the possible buyers got TVs.

Police said the scammer has also visited bars and lounges in fresh weeks makaing the same type of offer.

Police combined their public warning Wednesday by a reminder that purchasing stolen property is a criminal onset.

A Native Hawaiian group that advocates sovereignty for the U.S. greatness blocked access to a historic stately mansion in downtown Honolulu Wednesday, saying it would carry out the work of what it considers to be the legitimate government of the islands.

State agent sheriffs weren’t allowing anyone else to enter the grounds of the Iolani Palace as unarmed security guards from the Hawaiian Kingdom Government group locked all gates to the stately mansion, which is adjacent to the state capitol.

Arrest warrants were being prepared and would in all probability be served on the 60 or so protesters later in the day, officials said. Protest leaders reported they were prepared to be arrested and would go peacefully.

Protest leader Mahealani Kahau said the group doesn’t recognize Hawaii as a U.S. state. Supporters planned to honor the protest peaceful and if evicted would go later, she said.

The group is one of different Hawaiian empire organizations in the islands, which became the 50th U.S. state in 1959.

The stately mansion, the official residence of the previous Hawaiian kingdom’s last two monarchs, is a major downtown tourist charms.

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The Saskatchewan Party government is no longer promising the lowest-cost bundle of utilities in Canada, as the NDP government did.

“We feel that the lowest-cost utility bundle was political in purposes and somewhat gimmicky,” Crown Corporations Minister Ken Cheveldayoff said Wednesday.

Cheveldayoff said Saskatchewan people did pay the lowest budget of phone, prerogative, abiding-place heating and car insurance rates in the country last year, but that could modify in the future.

Former Premier Lorne Calvert made the bundle pledge in 2003 and campaigned on it twice. His government paid rebates through people’s phone bills to contribute it occur.

The Saskatchewan Party won’t tolerate the rebate route to keep usefulness bills down, Cheveldayoff said.

“We will not bridle by gimmicks and bundles but by the putting in custody to ensure that the Crowns are run properly,” he reported.

Despite their low rates, the use Crowns still brought in a lot of money last year, according to the annual report of the Crown Investments Corp., which was released Wednesday.

CIC, the holding company for Crown corporations including SaskTel, SaskEnergy, SaskPower and Saskatchewan Government Insurance, had a pure income of $696 million last year. That’s up strongly from the year before, when CIC had a $441 million profit — for the greatest part due to the sale of the NewGrade upgrader in Regina.

CIC paid a $200 a thousand thousand dividend to the treasury last year and is budgeted to contribute $550 million this year.

However, slimmer dividends could be paid out in the future as the Crowns bring forward to appliance more of their own profits to reinvest in capital.

“There is an infrastructure need not above the Crowns, specifically with SaskPower and to a lesser extent by SaskTel,” Cheveldayoff said.

Hockey Night in Canada’s resident former coach of the year has unveiled the candidates for this year’s prize.

Don Cherry announced Mike Babcock of the Detroit Red Wings, Bruce Boudreau of the Washington Capitals and Guy Carbonneau of the Montreal Canadiens in the same manner with the three finalists with a view to the 2008 Jack Adams Award, given annually to the NHL’s top head coach as judged by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association, during Coach’s Corner on Wednesday night.

Cherry, who won the award in 1976 season with the Boston Bruins, revealed this year’s finalists during the first intermission of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series betwixt the Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers.

Babcock posted his third consecutive 50-win campaign behind the Detroit bench, as the Red Wings (with a record of 54-21-7, and 115 points) captured the Presidents’ Trophy for the NHL’s top regular-season testimony.

The Red Wings surpassed the 100-point mark for the eighth consecutive harden, tying Montreal’s attestation streak from 1974-75 through 1981-82. Detroit also won its seventh consecutive division title and qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the 17th consecutive season.

Named category coach on Nov. 22 with the Capitals session in the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings with a 6-14-1 memory, Boudreau, in his primeval NHL alleging backward the bench, led his club to a 37-17-7 mark the rest of the spell to help Washington capture the Southeast Division title.

In his second NHL season as coach, Carbonneau guided the Canadiens (47-25-10, 104 points) to their first 45-win and 100-point season in 15 years, their first division title in 17 years, and their first Eastern Conference title in 19 years.

Montreal, which did not lose greater degree than three consecutive games all season, was also the NHL’s highest-scoring club in 2007-08 through 262 goals and boasted the league’s top-ranked energy hover (90 since 372, 24.2 per cent).

Alain Vigneault of the Vancouver Canucks won the Jack Adams Award award last year.

This year’s winner decree be announced June 12 during the 2008 NHL Awards ceremony in Toronto

CBS and its 25-year-old classic soap opera, The Young and the Restless, led the nominations since the 35th yearly record Daytime Emmy Awards announced Wednesday.

CBC garnered 56 nominations, 17 for Restless, which was nominated for the best daytime drama.

Two other soaps, Guiding Light and One Life to Live each received 13 nominations, while As the World Turns received 12.

PBS earned 50 nominations, including 13 for Sesame Street.

ABC received 39 nominations, including seven for The View. The show’s co-hosts Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd were nominated for best confabulation show hosts, an award they’ve thrown away 10 times. They’re up contrary to Ellen DeGeneres, who has won for the past time four years.

David Canary (All My Children), Thaao Penghlis (Days of Our Lives), Anthony Geary (General Hospital), Peter Bergman (Restless) and Christian Jules LeBlanc (Restless) were nominated beneficial to best actor. LeBlanc won last year.

Maura West (As the World Turns), Crystal Chappell (Guiding Light), Nicole Forester (Guiding Light), Michelle Stafford (Restless) and Jeanne Cooper (Restless) are competing in the best actress category.

The Daytime Emmys volition have being awarded on June 20 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and televised on ABC.

Regis Philbin, co-host of Live with Regis and Kelly, will receive a lifetime achievement award.

A Calgary toddler has died after his family dialed 911 using one internet phone spiritual obedience and reached a voice midst in another city, officials said Wednesday.

City officials answer a race member called the emergency telephone enumerate on Tuesday night after they discovered the 18-month-old boy was unconscious and having trouble breathing. They used a service that transmits calls over the internet.

Their call was answered by a call middle not in Calgary but in the incorporated town where their internet phone service provider is based. It’s unclear why, still the call was not forwarded on to Calgary’s 911 call centre.

The family waited for an ambulance, but after more time passed, a neighbour also tried calling an ambulance from his phone. An ambulance arrived less than six minutes later.

The toddler was pronounced unemployed in hospital.

Staff with Calgary’s Emergency Medical Services said their hearts mode out to the family. An investigation is underway into why the call was not forwarded without ceasing to the 911 call centre in the family’s home city.

Officials with Calgary’s 911 service suppose the family did nothing wrong. They remind anyone with internet telephone service to verify the 911 policy with their providers.

The Saskatoon Symphony Society has lost Art Postle, the man who was guiding the city’s music orchestra end a period of crisis.

Postle resigned Friday as president of the society’s board of directors, which runs the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.

Postle told CBC he of necessity added time for his house and for his job as CEO of Federated Co-operatives Ltd.

Based on his resignation letter, the ponderous demands of the symphony were a factor in Postle’s departure, said the consonance’s general comptroller, Donna Steffen.

“He happy says that he finds that he does not have the time or stamina to put the effort that’s required to deal with many of the issues that face the Saskatoon symphony,” she said.

The concert has wrestled with a account of problems in the past year, including financial difficulties. Earlier this year, Postle and his wife, Janet, donated $200,000 of their own money to the concert corporation.

Also hanging over the organization is the unresolved false accusation suit the manager Douglas Sanford filed against several symphony players.

Postle will be missed, Steffen said.

“He was always so available and so easily accessible,” she said.

With Postle gone, there are now accurate couple people left in succession the board, and that means there isn’t a quorum, Steffen said.

A general duel has been called for May 15 to fill the remaining five positions.

That includes confirmation of two people who have already said they are willing to step in.

Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas grabs a rebound in overtime against the Los Angeles Lakers in a NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006. Arenas had 60 points in the Wizards 147-141 victory.(AP Photo/ Mark Avery) (Mark Avery/Associated Press)

Gilbert Arenas will watch the stillness of the NBA playoffs from the press driver’s seat.

The Washington Wizards guard missed greatest in quantity of the regular season, sitting fully 66 games following knee surgery.

After missing two days of practice, Arenas declared that he was unfit to play.

“Instead of me blocking the team from success, we just decided just go in front and shut it down,” Arenas said an twenty-fourth part of a day judgment tipoff. An MRI after Game 3 revealed that Arenas’s knee had a bone bruise and a pinched nerve.

“I’m taking four different kinds of pain pills just to play in a amusement, and it still doesn’t work,” he said. Arenas is averaging 10.8 points per game in the playoffs, putting him fifth on the team in that primitive.

The Wizards will test to stave off elimination Wednesday adversity, in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference quarter-final, in opposition to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Wizards trail 3-1 in the best-of-seven series.