wednesday afternoon

One day after the Tigers and Rangers played in pristine October weather, Game 4 of the American League Championship Series was stuck in a rain delay Wednesday afternoon.

Shortly after the Bruins arrived at Rogers Arena Wednesday afternoon, injured Boston winger Nathan Horton walked out of the tunnel with a water bottle in hand.

On the bench, he glanced to his left, to his right, and surreptitiously squeezed the contents of the bottle onto the Vancouver ice.

Every last drop, because if there was something in the water in Boston, where the Bruins thumped the Canucks into submission and outscored them 17-3 in three games, then maybe they could use it on the road.

A woman was killed Wednesday afternoon when a tree fell on her tent in Shawnee State Forest in southern Ohio.

A sheriff's deputy photographs an airboat that was carrying sheriff's deputies Wednesday afternoon when it collided with a tour boat.

A man's body has been recovered from the Grand Canyon after a rafting party found the body Wednesday afternoon in the Colorado River.

A man attending a skydiving festival in the northwestern Montana town of Marion was killed when he plummeted to the ground after his parachute became entangled with another man's.

Fred Sand, owner of Skydive Lost Prairie, which hosts the event, says the accident happened late Wednesday afternoon.

A snowboarder was killed in an avalanche in a popular backcountry area off Loveland pass Wednesday afternoon.

The body of 26-year-old Chad Stroup, of Columbia, was found only 1,000 feet from his truck Wednesday afternoon, which was located one and a half miles down Birch Run Road in Michaux State Forest.

Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Charles Rogers has been arrested on a drunken-driving charge. Police say the 28-year-old Rogers was arrested Wednesday afternoon after he refused a Breathalyzer test.

Results of a blood test are pending. Rogers was arraigned Thursday on charges of operating while intoxicated and operating without a valid license.

According to multiple sources, the long-anticipated meeting between NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and suspended quarterback Michael Vick occurred Wednesday afternoon at a small security firm in Allendale, N.J., where both men were seen leaving the premises separately.