Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Las Vegas, Nevada (AHN) - Microsoft executives announce an increase in sales of Windows Media Center-equipped PCs. The current numbers project that by the end of March sales will hit 10 million. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows...

AP - When Colorado needed him most, there was Joe Sakic, scoring, passing and playing with a zeal that gave his teammates a boost. Sakic had two goals and two assists and the Avalanche defeated Los Angeles 5-0 Monday night to avoid a first-ever season sweep by the Kings.

AP - The Seattle Mariners traded lefty Matt Thornton to the Chicago White Sox for outfielder Joe Borchard on Monday.

AP - A storm system barreled across the Plains states on the last day of winter, piling snow more than a foot deep that stalled highway and train travelers in South Dakota and Colorado and causing flooding in Texas.

AP - In the desert chill, on the lonely nighttime roads of Iraq, Joe Johnson looks out over his machine gun and thinks of Justin. It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain and a colonel appeared on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news. Justin, the boy Joe had fished and hunted with, the soldier son who'd gone off to Iraq a month earlier, was suddenly dead at 22, killed by a roadside bomb planted in a Baghdad slum.

Reuters - The poster for "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" -- showing TV's "The O.C." hunk Chris Carmack relaxing in bed between cigarette-smoking Alec Baldwin and black-bra-clad Jan Maxwell -- is naughtier than anything in the revival of Joe Orton's once-groundbreaking play.

AP - The Florida Panthers are still fighting to keep their slim playoff hopes alive. Joe Nieuwendyk helped the Panthers pick up two more points in the standings Saturday night, scoring the only shootout goal in Florida's 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals.

AP - The Yankees are just two hours up the road, but nowhere in sight.

AP - Chris Bosh had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors rallied from a 16-point deficit in the final 6 minutes to beat the Milwaukee Bucks 97-96 Friday night.

Reuters - Close to 10 years after his death, Townes Van Zandt remains revered by other tunesmiths, especially fellow Texans like Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Joe Ely and Norah Jones.

AFP - Convicted child killer Soulan Pownceby makes his Commonwealth Games boxing bow on Sunday despite a storm of protest over his presence in Australia.

AP - In the desert chill, on the lonely nighttime roads of Iraq, Joe Johnson looks out over his machine gun and thinks of Justin. It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain and a colonel appeared on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news. Justin, the boy Joe had fished and hunted with, the soldier son who'd gone off to Iraq a month earlier, was suddenly dead at 22, killed by a roadside bomb planted in a Baghdad slum.

AP - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia railed against the era of the "judge-moralist," saying judges are no better qualified than "Joe Sixpack" to decide moral questions such as abortion and gay marriage.

AP - Joe Gibbs defended the Washington Redskins' aggressive approach to free agency on Wednesday, dismissing any implication that the team is somehow circumventing the NFL's salary cap.

AP - Though their chemistry sometimes approaches telepathy, Joe Thornton and Jonathan Cheechoo led the San Jose Sharks' latest win with beautiful grunt work.

Reuters - Dwyane Wade had 35 points, nine rebounds and seven assists as the Miami Heat rallied to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 98-92 on Sunday in Florida, overshadowing another brilliant individual effort from LeBron James.

AP - The U.S. should pull troops from Iraq after this summer if the political conditions in the country do not improve, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday.

Reuters - The Cleveland Browns made a splash on day one of the NFL's free agency period on Saturday, signing coveted free agents LeCharles Bentley and Joe Jurevicius.

Reuters - Gilbert Arenas scored 34 points as the Washington Wizards beat the Detroit Pistons for the second time this season with a 110-92 victory in National Basketball Association play Saturday in Washington.

AP - LeCharles Bentley and Joe Jurevicius are coming home to play for the Browns.