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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- NFL rushing leader Larry Johnson made the Denver Broncos' fifth-ranked run defense look ordinary. Johnson ran for 157 yards, Lawrence Tynes kicked four field goals, and Kansas City inaugurated the league's new Thanksgiving tripleheader with a 19-10 victory over Denver last night. The Chiefs (7-4) charged into a second-place tie with Denver in the AFC West and gave the Broncos (7-4) their first two-game losing streak since late in 2004. Johnson, raising his league-leading rushing total to 1,202 yards, consistently burned the Broncos, using his usual assortment of power moves...

The president of the Vatican bank has effectively been ousted after receiving a unanimous vote of no-confidence from bank overseers for having leaked documents and failed to do his job at a critical time in the Holy See's efforts to show financial transparency, the Vatican and officials said. Ettore Gotti Tedeschi has been a polarizing figure ever since he was named president of the bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, in 2009. He is under investigation for alleged money laundering by Italian magistrates, but the investigation isn't believed to have factored into the...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The statistics are too overwhelming to ignore: NFL teams that allow a 100-yard-plus rusher have a lousy winning percentage. In Week 11, teams that allowed a 100-yard rusher went 3-7. It is no small coincidence that once the Patriots were able to stop Kansas City's Derrick Blaylock, the replacement for the injured Priest Holmes Monday night, they found themselves in control of the game. New England went on to post a 27-19 win, improving to 9-1. Why? The Chiefs became one-dimensional, while the Patriots had running back Corey Dillon producing well, although he fell 2 yards short of...

By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier has announced that he will retire from the department in August after over 30 years on the force. According to a release, Frazier was appointed to the Braintree Police Department in 1980, and became chief of police in 1993. He was re-appointed chief by Mayor Joseph Sullivan in 2010. In his time, he has implemented a number of improvements to the department in terms of training and helped better equip the force.

FOXBOROUGH - For the first half of last night's 34-3 win against the Chiefs, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady found himself up close with the schemes Chiefs defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel had designed to stop him. The Patriots managed just two first downs on their first three possessions and were trailing, 3-0, after the first quarter. By the end of his team's third series, Brady was on the ground, sacked by Kansas City's Wallace Gillberry. There was, of course, something personal about the Chiefs' desire - and ability - to get to Brady, stemming from Crennel's four seasons under Bill Belichick as...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- On a day dominated by offense, it took a defensive back to settle things. Indianapolis star Peyton Manning had already thrown five touchdown passes when he lofted the ball into Kansas City's end zone with just under two minutes left yesterday. This time, the catch in the end zone belonged to Chiefs safety Greg Wesley, who returned the ball 65 yards to seal Kansas City's 45-35 victory. "We didn't want it to have to happen that way," Wesley said. "But they've got a powerful offense.

By Greg A. Bedard, Globe Staff FOXBOROUGH — With the Jets and Bills both losing this week, the Patriots can keep the drumbeat to the AFC East title going with a victory tonight over the upset-minded Chiefs. What will they need to do to improve to 7-3? Our five keys to victory: Protect Tom Brady : Something's going on in the NFL with a rash of quarterback injuries. It's beginning to look like Survivor: Indianapolis at this point. So do yourself a favor and keep The Franchise from getting hit. Stop the run : With Tyler Palko getting the start at quarterback,...

DENVER -- Rod Smith, Mike Anderson, and the Denver Broncos made that newfangled Kansas City defense seem a lot like the old one. And that vaunted Chiefs offense looked pretty lame, too. Anderson ran for a 44-yard touchdown and Smith became the first undrafted player in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards receiving last night, as the Broncos handled Kansas City from start to finish in a 30-10 victory. Jake Plummer went 13 of 18 for 152 yards -- including a 12-yard TD to Smith -- and ran for a score on fourth-and-goal from the 1, an efficient performance that was more than...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Could the circumstances of a pair of teams that each began the day at 6-4 have been any different? The Chiefs hammer the Patriots, 26-16 (it felt, and was, much worse than that), and the divisional water is still up to their nostrils. The Patriots are shoved around by the Chiefs and they're no worse off than they were when the day dawned. Compared to the Chiefs, they're sitting in the penthouse gazing down at the peasants, in complete control of their playoff destiny.

A couple of playmaking defenders were named franchise players by their NFL teams yesterday. The Kansas City Chiefs made defensive end Jared Allen , who led the league in sacks last season despite being suspended for the first two games, their franchise player. The Baltimore Ravens placed the designation on two-time Pro Bowl outside linebacker Terrell Suggs , a move that prevents him from becoming an unrestricted free agent at the end of the month. The Chiefs have been unable to work out a contract for almost a year with Allen, who had 15 1/2 sacks last season.

Despite some remaining differences, a deal has been reached with Iran that will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart a long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran has secretly worked on developing nuclear arms, the U.N. nuclear chief said Tuesday. The news from International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano, who returned from Tehran on Tuesday, comes just a day before Iran and six world powers meet in Baghdad for negotiations and could present a significant turning point in the heated dispute over Iran's nuclear intentions.

The newest top cop who President Porfirio Lobo is giving the responsibility of cleaning up the national police force has faced questions in the past about his record on human rights. Lobo swore in Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, a veteran law enforcement official known as "El Tigre" or "The Tiger," late Monday to replace Ricardo Ramirez del Cid, who held the job for little more than six months. Assistant Communications Minister Mario Mejia Alas said that he didn't know the reason for the change and that Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla praised Ramirez's...

Brookstone has tapped Stephen Bebis, founder of Golf Town, as the new chief executive of the New Hampshire electronics chain. Bebis spent 14 years as founder, president, and chief executive of Golf Town, the largest specialty golf retailer in Canada with 57 locations. It recently announced plans to acquire US rival Golfsmith. "We were impressed by Stephen's track record as an entrepreneur, his hands-on experience as a manager and mentor at the highest levels in the retail industry, and his ability to drive growth and achieve market...

Bolivia's corruption-plagued national police force has its seventh new police commander in six years. But some officers are upset by President Evo Morales' choice. The head of Bolivia's criminal police division and several other officers expressed disapproval by walking out of Monday's swearing-in of the new commander, Col. Victor Maldonado. The critics complain that Maldonado never attended the police academy. He is a detective and former police intelligence chief. Maldonado's successor, Gen. Jorge Santiesteban, was forced out after allegations that he took...

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency arrived Monday in Tehran on a key mission that could lead to the resumption of probes by the watchdog on whether Iran has secretly worked on an atomic weapon. It would also strength the Islamic Republic's negotiating hand in crucial nuclear talks with six world powers later this week in Baghdad. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano and his two aides were quickly whisked away after landing at the Tehran airport before dawn Monday.

Fresh from Facebook Inc.'s record-setting initial public offering, the company's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, is to speak at Harvard Business School Wednesday. Sandberg is expected to be in Cambridge to deliver the Class Day keynote speech for graduating students ahead of Harvard University's commencement exercises Thursday. She graduated from Harvard Business School in 1995 and earned her undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard in 1991. A Harvard Business spokes­­­woman said she wasn't...

Just call them the Kansas City Patriots. With Romeo Crennel yesterday agreeing to become their defensive coordinator, when the Chiefs take the field next year, they will have the same defensive coordinator, offensive coordinator, and top front office executive who helped lead New England to three Super Bowl titles between 2002-05. Throw in quarterback Matt Cassel , who backed up Tom Brady with the Patriots, and the New England-Kansas City connection becomes even stronger as general manager Scott Pioli attempts to reverse the fortunes of the long-suffering Chiefs.

The Kansas City Chiefs changed the course of Matt Cassel's career by injuring Patriots franchise quarterback Tom Brady in the 2008 season opener, and now the Patriots have sent the franchise-tagged Cassel to Kansas City to be the Chiefs' franchise quarterback. Striking a deal with former Patriots vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli, the Patriots traded Cassel and linebacker Mike Vrabel to Kansas City in exchange for the Chiefs' second-round pick (the 34th overall selection)

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency flew to Tehran on Sunday on a delicate mission that — if successful — could finally lift the veil on whether Iran is seeking atomic arms while strengthening the Islamic Republic's negotiating hand in crucial nuclear talks with six world powers later in the week. The trip by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano is focused on getting agreement from Iran to terms that will allow the agency to resume probing whether Tehran secretly worked on nuclear arms.

Despite admitting to federal investigators that he falsified drinking water test results, the superintendent of the Avon Water Department remains on the job, and his bosses seem wary of making any changes until they learn more about the charges against him. Getting that information has been difficult, said Town Administrator Michael McCue. "We are not in receipt of any official documents, other than a press release which we received secondhand" from a newspaper reporter, he said via e-mail.