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Clinton took the debate dispute to a new level, challenging Obama to face off with her in a debate without a moderator, Lincoln-Douglas style.

"Just the two of us, going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions, we'll set whatever rules seem fair," Clinton said while campaigning in South Bend.

Her campaign made the offer formal with a letter to the Obama campaign.

Obama aides said he had already debated Clinton 21 times, "the most in primary history."

Chicago police say 64-year-old Donald Wells of Metamora, Michigan, received the traffic ticket Sunday.

Police say Wells could still face criminal charges in the crash Friday that killed two people and injured 21.

Wells was briefly hospitalized after his truck careered off an expressway. After his release, he was led away by police in handcuffs.

More than 150 aftershocks have been recorded on the western edge of northern Nevada's largest city after a magnitude-4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake in a sequence that began Feb. 28. There were no reports of injuries or widespread damage.

Scientists have urged residents to prepare for worse, saying the recent activity is unusual because the quakes started out small and continue to build in strength.

After being awakened as many as four times a night by quakes, retiree Sandra Petty decided to spend nights 10 miles away at the Sparks home of her daughter, Stefanie McCaffrey.

"The quakes have sent her emotions and nerves into a tailspin," McCaffrey said Sunday. "She was exhausted, and she couldn't relax or unwind. She just needed to get away so she could have a good night's sleep."

Authorities said that the father may have told acquaintances and relatives that his daughter had joined a cult and disappeared.

Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs, told reporters that the father, identified as Josef F., had been taken into custody. Police said Josef and his wife had been raising three of their daughter's children. The other three grew up in the cellar.

"We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime," Interior Minister Guenther Platter said.

The case unfolded after a gravely ill teenager was found unconscious on April 19 in the building where her grandparents live, and taken to a hospital in the town of Amstetten. Told that the sick 19-year-old's mother was missing, authorities publicly appealed for her to come forward.

They say a woman and child are among the dead. The health ministry says several more people were wounded Monday by shells fired from a tank at a house in the town of Beit Hanoun.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

An attentive and peaceful crowd of thousands watched the start of the relay in Pyongyang, some waving Chinese flags, in live footage from broadcaster APTN. The event was presided over by the head of the country's rubber-stamp parliament who often acts as a ceremonial state leader, Kim Yong Nam.

The North, an ally of its communist neighbor China, has been critical of disruptions to the torch relay elsewhere and has supported Beijing in its crackdown against violent protests in Tibet. North Korea is one of the world's most tightly controlled countries, where citizens are not allowed to travel freely and civil rights are restricted by the iron-fisted regime.

Kim passed the torch to the first runner Pak Du Ik, who played on the 1966 North Korean World Cup soccer team that made a historic run to the quarterfinals. As he began the 12-mile route through Pyongyang, thousands more cheering people lined city streets waving pink paper flowers and small flags with the Beijing Olympics logo and chanting "Welcome! Welcome!"

The relay began from beneath the large sculpted flame that tops the obelisk of the Juche Tower, which commemorates the national ideology of "self-reliance" created by the country's late founding President Kim Il Sung, father of current leader Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il was not seen at the event.

Xinhua News Agency said on its Web site that Monday's crash outside the city of Zibo in Shandong province injured at least 247 people. Of those, 51 were in serious condition.

It quoted witnesses as saying a passenger train from Beijing to coastal Qingdao city derailed and hit another train.

The agreement was being considered for renewal but the two sides remained far apart over revisions, said Vu Duc Long, director of Vietnam's International Adoption Agency. The agreement expires on Sep. 1.

The decision not to renew the pact was made after the U.S. embassy in Hanoi released a report earlier this month alleging pervasive corruption and baby-selling in Vietnam's adoption system.

The allegations were "unfair," Long said. "They can say whatever they want, but we are not going to renew it."

In a letter sent to the U.S. embassy in Hanoi on April 25, Vietnam said it will stop taking adoption applications from American families after July 1, but will continue to process applications of families who are matched with babies before July 1 until the agreement expires.

By his absence, the injured War Pass influences the 134th Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs. How will trainers adjust their strategy without his front-running style to help set the pace?

Questions can be raised about each of the 20 3-year-olds who will enter the gates that will spring one of them to racing glory.

Pyro was among the Derby favorites when he finished 10th of 12 and was beaten by 111/2 lengths in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes on April 12.

So what if he didn't like the all-weather surface; they run the Derby on dirt. But did he get enough work (while "running" a 73 Beyer Speed Figure) to be fit for the demands of the 11/4-mile Derby?

Will the best trainer in horse racing today ever win a Kentucky Derby?

Sorry, Todd Pletcher, here we are again.

The evil twin, the one about Pletcher having never won a Triple Crown race, was put to bed last year, thank goodness. The fabulous filly Rags to Riches saw to that, out-grinding the boys to become the first female to win the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes in more than a century.

That triumph snapped Pletcher's startling 0-for-28 streak in Triple Crown races.

First, he had to wait until the end of the sixth round to hear his name called, and then he was drafted by a team that hadn't been on his radar leading up to the draft.

Woodson became the 198th overall pick, by the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants on Sunday. He was the 32nd selection of the sixth round.

The Giants already have four quarterbacks under contract: Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, former No. 1 overall pick David Carr, former UK quarterback Jared Lorenzen, and journeyman Anthony Wright.

Lorenzen was a backup for Manning last year, and Carr signed a free-agent contract with the Giants in the off-season.

By his absence, the injured War Pass influences the 134th Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs. How will trainers adjust their strategy without his front-running style to help set the pace?

Questions can be raised about each of the 20 3-year-olds who will enter the gates that will spring one of them to racing glory.

Pyro was among the Derby favorites when he finished 10th of 12 and was beaten by 111/2 lengths in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes on April 12.

So what if he didn't like the all-weather surface; they run the Derby on dirt. But did he get enough work (while "running" a 73 Beyer Speed Figure) to be fit for the demands of the 11/4-mile Derby?

Lakewood's Chance Chapman was nearly as good, touched up for only an unearned run and three hits.

The BlueClaws strung together three singles to start the ninth, but the Legends held on for a 1-0 victory. Back-to-back wins gave Lexington a split of the four-game series.

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n Sergio Severino fired six no-hit innings, striking out seven and walking three.

But his coach/adviser, Ed Smith, noted the possibility that Kentucky or the other school still in the running, Baylor, could still get a commitment from Majok. Smith suggested that UConn led, in part, because it's the last suitor to embrace Majok.

The player visited UConn this past weekend.

"When he visited Baylor, he thought it was awesome, off the wall," Smith said on Sunday. "He committed."

After time passed, Majok changed his mind and reopened the recruiting process. He visited UK while in the area to participate in the Derby Festival game.

Modano scored the tiebreaking goal early in the Stars' four-goal third period, and Marty Turco made 29 saves in a 5-2 victory over the Sharks in Game 2 on Sunday night, sending Dallas home with a commanding series lead.

Brad Richards scored the tying goal on an awful San Jose turnover in the opening minute of the third period, and Niklas Hagman added two insurance goals in the Stars' eighth victory in their last nine trips to San Jose. Mike Ribeiro also scored an early goal before Dallas put a tremendous finish on another profitable night at the Shark Tank.

Dallas hasn't reached the conference finals since 2000, when the Stars beat San Jose in the second round on the way to their second straight Stanley Cup finals appearance.

Games 3 and 4 are back-to-back, starting Tuesday night in Dallas. The Sharks might have a better chance to get competitive in Texas, since the NHL's best road team during the regular season has won three of its last four games in Dallas.

"Everything was stirring up in him," coach Byron Scott said. "He wasn't going to play the way he played in Game 3. We were banking on that. He was in an aggressive mind-set from the start and he came up big."

The Hornets hadn't won in Dallas over 14 tries since January 1998. This victory means they might not have to come back until next season. They can eliminate the Mavericks by winning Game 5 on Tuesday night in New Orleans.

"You want to see if you can hopefully take their life away right from the start," Scott said. "They've got a veteran team so it won't be easy."

Dirk Nowitzki had 22 points and 13 rebounds and Jason Terry scored 20 points, but they didn't get much help. Josh Howard was 3-for-16 and Jason Kidd had only three points, three assists and four rebounds before getting ejected with 7:16 left for a flagrant foul on Jannero Pargo. Thousands of fans bailed out soon after, then a guy down the row from team owner Mark Cuban got tossed, too.

Erick Aybar also drove in three runs, helping Anaheim win the three-game series.

The Angels have won 10 of 14, giving them a league-high 16 wins to keep pace with the Oakland Athletics in the AL West heading into their series that starts Monday night in Anaheim.

"We can compete with anybody, even in the position we're in health-wise," Hunter said. "We don't have our No. 1 starter, John Lackey, or Kelvim Escobar because of injuries. When we get those guys back, we're going to be even better."

Detroit had won nine of 13 after starting 2-10, but Verlander has not turned things around on the mound.

Game 5 is Tuesday night at Detroit.

The Sixers pumped up the crowd when they played season highlights set to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." Then Detroit guaranteed its season won't unexpectedly cut-to-black.

All the euphoria the Sixers created after a 20-point win in Game 3 only grew as they raced to a 14-point first-half lead. The younger, faster, confident Sixers were taking it to the aging, slumping Pistons yet again.

Then those 59-win Pistons showed up in the third quarter. They haven't reached five straight Eastern Conference finals by losing two straight road games to the seventh seed in the first round.

Ashley had a run of 4.837 seconds at 320.36 mph at Atlanta Dragway in her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang to take a 59-point lead over Tim Wilkerson in the season standings.

"I'm just happy to win an event. That was the main thing," Ashley said. "Being a female, that's exciting as far as the records and everything, but my team, we just wanted to get our first win. We went a whole year last year and got close a few times. To finally get it done, we're just so excited."

John, seeking his 1,000th career round win, lost traction at the start, finishing way behind Ashley with an 11.223-second run.

"It's great for her that she gets that win and gets that out of the way," John said. "I'm a little disappointed that my car didn't run a little bit better.

Patrick stepped behind a barricade, signed about a half-dozen autographs and curtly answered a TV reporter's questions before disappearing into the hauler after a few seconds.

The tears of joy from a historic win a week earlier were long gone Sunday, replaced by frowns and frustration after a mechanical failure on the 157th lap knocked Patrick out of the RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300 at Kansas Speedway.

"I am disappointed that the Motorola car had to cut the day short due to the right rear wheel mount," Patrick said. "I came on the radio earlier in the race saying there was some movement in the car, but we had no idea that it was that serious."

Patrick became the first woman to win an IndyCar race last week in Motegi, Japan, a victory that came in her 50th career race and set off an unexpected emotional outburst. A weeklong flurry of TV appearances, dozens of interviews, even a movie premiere followed, and she kept the momentum going on the track by qualifying third for the Kansas race.

Continental Chairman and Chief Executive Lawrence Kellner said in a message to employees that the Houston-based airline was better off alone than merging.

"We have significant cultural, operational and financial strengths compared to the rest of the industry, and we want to protect and enhance those strengths - which we believe would be placed at risk in a merger with another carrier in today's environment," Kellner told employees.

Although it reported an $80 million loss in the first quarter, Continental is widely viewed as the second-strongest U.S. carrier in financial terms, behind only Southwest Airlines Co., which has indicated it isn't interested in a merger.

Continental's decision stunned United's parent, UAL Corp., which had been in advanced talks with Continental and expected to complete a deal by early May.

"We don't want to run overtime for employees just to produce breakfast," said assistant general manager Rick Reynolds. "That doesn't make financial sense."

Employers around the country who thrive on seasonal business are preparing to lose thousands of foreign workers they've hired in past summers to work in restaurants, hotels, landscaping and other industries. New visa controls are cutting the number of temporary foreign workers eligible to return to the country, so employers are scouring job fairs for replacements, lobbying Congress for help and bracing for staff shortages they say will make business tough.

Tourism and hospitality officials envision various problems if the jobs go unfilled: Restaurants may have fewer tables and longer wait-times. Hotel check-in times could be delayed as fewer housekeepers hustle to clean rooms. Resorts may offer fewer meals to guests.

"They will function, they will survive, they will be open - they just won't thrive," warned Jane Nichols Bishop, a Cape Cod consultant who matches up foreign seasonal workers with businesses.

The newspaper's annual Rich List ranked steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal as Britain's wealthiest man for the fourth year running. It put the Indian-born tycoon's fortune at 27.7 billion pounds, or $55 billion, up more than 8 billion pounds from last year.

Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich, owner of London's Chelsea soccer team, was in second place, with wealth of 11.7 billion pounds, or $23.2 billion.

The Duke of Westminster was in third place with 7 billion pounds ($14 billion). The Briton owns huge parcels of land in central London and elsewhere.

Indian-born industrialists Ari and Gopi Hinduja were in fourth place with wealth of 6.2 billion pounds ($12.4 billion). Russian steel and mining magnate Alisher Usmanov was ranked fifth with wealth of 5.7 billion pounds ($11.4 billion).