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Chicago Marathon gets Khannouchi

The world-record holder will return to the LaSalle Bank ChicagoMarathon.

Khalid Khannouchi, thwarted in his bid to run for the UnitedStates in the Olympics, will instead try to improve on last year's2:05:42 finish that slashed 23 seconds off the previous best marathonhere last year.

Khannouchi entered Tuesday to the delight of race director CareyPinkowski.

"He's extremely valuable to us," said Pinkowski, "and-on apersonal level-we let him know that. Then it was up to me to createfinancial opportunities for him to come back. Was he my No. 1priority? Absolutely."

Khannouchi, 28, ran as a citizen of Morocco when he won here inhis marathon debut in 1997. …

Klement Sausage recalls beef sticks

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee sausage company is issuing a national recall of beef sticks because they may contain foreign material.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service says Klement Sausage Co. Inc. is recalling nearly 2,800 pounds of beef stick products.

They are the …

Durant, Thunder frustrate Heat, 96-85

MIAMI (AP) — Oklahoma City had one of its worst shooting nights of the season. The way the Thunder played defense, hardly anyone noticed.

Except the Miami Heat, that is.

Kevin Durant scored 29 points on 12 for 21 shooting, Russell Westbrook added 18 and the Thunder gave Miami's offense fits on the way to a 96-85 victory over the Heat on Wednesday night.

"Our defense was as good as it could possibly play," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said.

James Harden scored 12 points for the Thunder, who have won five straight. Oklahoma City shot just 40 percent, and had been 7-13 when connecting on less than 43 percent of its chances this season.

It didn't matter Wednesday …

Measure raises S.C. sewer rates by 30 percent

Sanitary sewer rates in South Charleston will rise by 30 percent,according to a measure passed by City Council.

City officials said they were reluctant to increase the fees, butit was necessary to fund federally mandated improvements that must becompleted by 2010.

"We regret having to do this," Councilman Ben Paul said Thursdayevening.

The increase will pay to construct a water treatment plant next tothe existing plant to help reduce the overflow of untreated waterinto the Kanawha River.

Although the council reluctantly increased its sewer fees, itproudly announced it had won a concession from the West VirginiaAmerican Water Co., which has agreed to …

Pope News Conference Causes Stir

SAO PAULO, Brazil - It took two years for Pope Benedict XVI to give his first full-fledged news conference. And when he finally held one on Wednesday, he caused a stir with his comments on abortion.

Benedict stood before 70 journalists on his Alitalia jetliner headed to Brazil on the first long trip of his papacy. Responding with quiet certainty, he answered 11 questions in 25 minutes.

Initially he steered clear of controversy - insisting, for example, that "I love Latin America" when asked why it took him two years to make his first papal visit to the region where half of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics live.

But when an Italian reporter pressed him on whether …

Holder says terrorists won't be freed into US

The Obama administration will not release terrorists from Guantanamo Bay into neighborhoods in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday as he sought to reassure worried lawmakers.

"We don't have any plans to release terrorists," Holder testified at a Senate hearing on the Obama administration's budget for the Justice Department. The budget proposal released Thursday requests up to $160 million to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

But he also said some of the detainees at the facility will be let go, indicating the administration believes some held there are not terrorists. Asked after the hearing if …