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Detroit Lions cornerback Stanley Wilson will miss the rest of the season with a torn Achilles’ tendon.

Texas Rangers closer C.J. Wilson was placed on the 15-day disabled list with bone spurs in his left elbow after Tuesday night’s 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees.

The Newport Folk Festival is picking up good vibrations.The festival producers plan to announce Monday that Brian Wilson, a founding member of the Beach Boys, is joining the festival’s lineup. He’ll headline an evening performance on Aug. 1 at the...

Ron Wilson has become the new coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, a month after he was fired by the San Jose Sharks.The 53-year-old Wilson was introduced by the Leafs at a Tuesday news conference at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.Wilson was fired last month...

The San Jose Sharks fired coach Ron Wilson on Monday after the team’s latest disappointing early ouster from the Stanley Cup playoffs.Wilson, hired by the club in December 2002, is the Sharks’ leader in wins and winning percentage, but San Jose only...

Country music singer Gretchen Wilson has a mantel full of awards in her Lebanon home.Her first radio single, “Redneck Woman,” spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and it earned her a 2005 Grammy. Her debut album sold 4.5...

Two men have been charged with second-degree burglary after they and a teenager were trying to bust a dog out of the city pound for its owner’s memorial service.The mixed-breed dog, Luke, was picked up April 22 while roaming the streets of the tiny...

Al Wilson, the soul singer and songwriter who had a number of 1970s hits including “Show and Tell,” has died. He was 68.Wilson died Monday of kidney failure at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, according to his son, Tony Wilson of...