News and Information From The Bahamas

Pittsburgh Penguins must win next playoff game against New Jersey Devils or be eliminated

Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player grab attention at Senior PGA Championship golf tournament in Ridgewood, NJ, although Jim Thorpe leads after two rounds; photo

Prosecutors charge Evergreen Securities three executives, William J Zylka, James P Conroy and Martin W Boelens Jr, with grand larceny theft of more than $25 million of fundholders' money

Financial Action Task Force, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development arm, threatens Russia, Philippines and Nauru with curbs on their dealings with international banks unless they enact laws by Sept 30 to clamp down on money laundering; adds six nations, Burma, Egypt, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia and Nigeria, to list of those that have not cooperated in crackdown; removes Bhamas, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein and Panama from list

An Eastern Conference official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Patrick Ewing has agreed in principle to a two-year deal to join the Orlando Magic

Under a new policy, every player must deposit 10 percent of his 2001-2 salary into an escrow account to be divided by the owners of the N.B.A.'s 29 teams

After all the innuendo and speculation, Chris Webber, the 6-foot-10 All-Star forward for Sacramento, is close to agreeing in principle to a seven-year contract with the Kings for about $123 million

A sailboat packed with perhaps as many as 156 Haitians trying to get to the United States ran aground on the reefs surrounding Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas

American aviation officials searched today for clues in the plane crash that killed the pop singer Aaliyah and eight others. One focus is whether excess weight from production equipment hindered the takeoff

Aaliyah was only 22 when she died, but she had recorded some of the most innovative and influential pop songs of the last five years