Hester has 2 long TDs as Bears beat Vikings 39-10

Chicago Bears wide receiver Devin Hester (23) avoids a tackle by Minnesota Vikings kicker Ryan Longwell on his way to a 98-yard kickoff return in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Bears wide receiver Devin Hester (23) avoids a tackle by Minnesota Vikings kicker Ryan Longwell on his way to a 98-yard kickoff return in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Bears' Devin Hester (23) is congratulated by teammates after his 98-yard kickoff return against the Minnesota Vikings in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Bears wide receiver Devin Hester (23) runs into the end zone on a 98-yard kickoff return in the second half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Bears wide receiver Devin Hester (23) makes a 48-yard touchdown reception in front of Minnesota Vikings cornerback Cedric Griffin (23) in the first half of an NFL football game in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Chicago Bears wide receiver Devin Hester (23) reacts with teammate Matt Forte (22) after his 48-yard touchdown reception against the Minnesota Vikings in the first half of an NFL football game in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

CHICAGO (AP) ? Given the beating Jay Cutler was taking and the big plays the defense was allowing, this one looked like potential trouble for the Chicago Bears.

So it was hardly shocking that a blowout developed.

That the Bears delivered the beating was a bit of a surprise.

The Bears got two big touchdowns from Devin Hester, stopped Adrian Peterson and held their ground against Jared Allen in a 39-10 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night.

Hester set the tone with a 48-yard touchdown catch and scored on a career-best 98-yard kickoff return before leaving with a chest injury ? and he had a lot of help in the win.

"Hopefully, that's who were are, the team that you saw tonight," coach Lovie Smith said.

Jay Cutler threw for 267 yards and two touchdowns without an interception. Julius Peppers had two sacks and the Bears (3-3) held Peterson to 39 yards rushing.

Smith didn't think the injuries to Hester and tight end Kellen Davis (elbow) were serious, but he's made similar statements in the past about players who wound up missing big chunks of time. Hester did not make himself available for comment.

His 48-yard TD pass from Cutler on Chicago's first possession got the Bears started quickly as they grabbed a 26-3 halftime lead. Hester's kickoff return early in the third quarter erased any chance the Vikings (1-5) had at a comeback.

"You feel like you're getting ready to come and that kickoff return was a big momentum turn," Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said.

It's no secret that teams are inviting danger by kicking to Hester, and Minnesota paid a big price right after Peterson scored on a 4-yard run.

Hester took the kickoff, turned to his right and was touched maybe once on his way to the end zone, making it 33-10. It was his first kickoff return for a touchdown since Nov. 25, 2007, against Denver.

"We're all kind of witnessing history every time he touches it," Smith said.

Hester set a record with his 11th punt return for a touchdown against Carolina on Oct. 2. On Sunday, the good feelings gave way to concern when the announcement came early in the fourth quarter that he was finished for the game.

Along with the big return, Hester had five catches for 91 yards.

Cutler, meanwhile, had all the time he needed and ? for one game, anyway ? avoided a big beating. Never mind that league sacks leader Jared Allen was lining up for the Vikings, the Bears' maligned blockers held their ground.

That allowed Cutler to complete 21 of 31 passes while being sacked just once.

The defense did its job, too.

A surprise starter after sitting out practice this week with a sprained left knee, Peppers got his two sacks and stayed in until the closing minutes even though the knee was bothering him.

"Did I want to stay in? I mean, I don't know," Peppers said. "I wanted to play, if that's what you're asking. I wanted to play, but the smart thing to do is get everybody out of the game and not risk an injury in a blowout."

Donovan McNabb threw for 177 yards and completed 19 of 24 passes. He was sacked five times before being lifted for a debuting Christian Ponder, but it was a brutal night for Peterson aside from that scoring run.

He simply couldn't get anything going against a defense that had been giving up plays at an alarming rate, and it didn't help that the Vikings lost center John Sullivan (concussion) and right tackle Phil Loadholt (bruised knee) to injuries in the third quarter.

Even so, the Bears dominated from the start. Now, after dropping three of four, they can breathe a little easier.

They still trail unbeaten Green Bay by three games and Detroit by two with losses to both teams, but they have to feel a little better about themselves as they get ready to play Tampa Bay in London.

"That was awesome," linebacker Brian Urlacher said. "We ran the ball, protected our quarterback, we made plays in the kicking game as usual, good team win."

Notes: Ponder was 9 of 17 for 99 yards. ... Frazier said he didn't think Loadholt was seriously injured, but had no more information on Sullivan and S Jamarca Sanford (concussion). ... Peppers has 20 multi-sack games.

Associated Press

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US strike kills 9 al-Qaida militants in Yemen

Anti-government protestors carry a wounded defected army soldier from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Anti-government protestors carry a wounded defected army soldier from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Anti-government protestors and defected soldiers carry a wounded protestor from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

A wounded anti-government protestor is carried from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Smoke rises during clashes between tribesmen loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, and Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemeni medics carry a wounded protestor from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? The United States has raised the tempo in its war against al-Qaida in Yemen, killing nine of the terror group's militants in the second, high-profile airstrike in as many weeks. The dead in the late Friday night strike included the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, the prominent American-Yemeni militant killed in a Sept. 30 strike.

Yemeni officials on Saturday attributed the recent U.S. successes against al-Qaida to better intelligence from an army of Yemeni informers and cooperation with the Saudis, Washington's longtime Arab allies.

The successes come even as Yemen falls deeper into turmoil, with President Ali Abdullah Saleh clinging to power in the face of months of massive protests. Saturday saw the worst bloodshed in weeks in the capital, Sanaa: At least 18 people were killed when Saleh's troops fired on protesters and clashed with rivals. Witnesses estimated up to 300,000 people joined Saturday's demonstrations, the largest in the capital in several months.

"Everyone with interests in Yemen, including al-Qaida and the Americans, is raising the stakes at this time of uncertainty" said analyst Abdul-Bari Taher. "The Americans are wasting no time to try and eliminate the al-Qaida threat before the militants dig in deeper and cannot be easily dislodged."

Also dead in the Friday airstrike in the southeastern province of Shabwa was Egyptian-born Ibrahim al-Banna, identified by the nation's Defense Ministry as the media chief of the Yemeni branch of the al-Qaida.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the branch is known, is considered by the U.S. the most dangerous of the terror network's affiliates after it plotted two recent failed attacks on American soil. Its fighters and other Islamic militants have taken advantage of Yemen's chaos to seize control of several cities and towns in a southern province. That has raised American fears they can establish a firmer foothold in the strategically located country close to the vast oil fields of the Gulf and overlooking key shipping routes.

The U.S. airstrikes in Shabwa pointed to Washington's growing use of drones to target al-Qaida militants in Yemen. The missile attacks appear to be part of a determined effort to stamp out the threat from the group.

Yemeni officials familiar with the U.S. military drive against al-Qaida in Yemen said a shift of strategy by the Americans was finally yielding results, with human assets on the ground directly providing actionable intelligence to U.S. commanders rather than relying entirely on Yemen's security agencies the Americans had long considered inefficient or even suspected of leaking word on planned operations.

They said there were as many as 3,000 informers on the U.S. payroll around the country ? some without even knowing it.

The Saudis, on the other hand, have traditionally kept an elaborate patronage system and an information network in Yemen, their neighbor to the south. They have for decades paid monthly stipends to key tribal leaders, military commanders and politicians to secure their loyalty. They also paid ordinary Yemenis to provide them with intelligence.

"The Saudis are making their information available to the Americans," said one of the defense officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information. "Both them and the Americans are broadening their cooperation without direct Yemeni involvement."

Tribal elders in the area where Friday's strikes took place said the dead included Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, the 21-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim preacher and savvy Internet operator who became a powerful al-Qaida recruiting tool in the West and who was on a U.S. capture-or-kill list. The elder al-Awlaki and another propagandist, Pakistani-American Samir Khan, were killed in the Sept. 30 strike.

The tribal elders, who spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals, said four other members of the al-Awlaki clan and another local militant were also killed in the same drone attack. There was no immediate confirmation of the younger al-Awlaki's death from Yemeni authorities.

Security officials said the strike was one of five carried out overnight by American drones on suspected al-Qaida positions in Shabwa and neighboring Abyan province in Yemen's largely lawless south. They said two more militants were killed and 12 wounded in other strikes in the two provinces.

The first strike late Friday targeted a house in the Azan district of Shabwa, but hit just after al-Qaida militants had a meeting in the building, security officials and tribal elders said.

They said a second strike then targeted two sport utility vehicles in which the seven were traveling, destroying the vehicles and leaving the men's bodies charred. It was not clear whether other participants in the meeting were targeted in separate strikes.

Yemen's al-Qaida offshoot has taken advantage of the political turmoil roiling the country. Saleh, who has ruled the country for more than 30 years, has been struggling to stay in power in the face of eight months of massive street protests demanding his ouster and the defection to the opposition of key aides and military commanders.

In a separate development, the security officials said suspected al-Qaida militants bombed a key underground gas pipeline that extends from the Balhaf area in Shabwa to an export terminal on the Arabian Sea. The late Friday night attack started a massive fire, with columns of flames illuminating the night sky.

The security officials said non-Yemeni employees of Total, the French company running the gas field and pipeline in Balhaf, have been evacuated to Sanaa aboard three helicopters for their safety. They had no more details.

In Sanaa, forces loyal to Saleh opened up on protesters with assault rifles and anti-aircraft guns, medical officials and witnesses said. The casualty figures ? 12 dead and up to 300 wounded ? were confirmed by Mohammed al-Qubati, director of the field hospital set up at Change square, the name given to a central Sanaa intersection that saw the birth of the eight-month-old, anti-Saleh uprising.

The medical officials requested anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to journalists.

In Sanaa's northern district of Hassaba, fighting between Saleh's forces on one side and anti-regime tribesmen and renegade troops on the other killed two civilians and four supporters of tribal chief Sadeq al-Ahmar, a one-time regime ally who defected to the opposition in March. At least 13 people were wounded in the fighting.

A three-story building housing an independent TV station, Al-Saeedah, in the area took a direct hit, destroying the channel's equipment and studios, according to a statement by the management. The privately owned station went off the air.

Khaled al-Ansi, a prominent leader of the protest movement, blamed the death of the protesters on opposition parties, arguing that their acceptance of a U.S.-backed settlement plan proposed by Yemen's Gulf Arab neighbors gave Saleh license to kill protesters at will. The plan provides for the Yemeni leader to step down and hand over power to his deputy in exchange for immunity.

"The political parties are participants in the killings," said al-Ansi. "The immunity from prosecution is giving Saleh a temptation to kill more of us."

Associated Press

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More Children Visiting ERs for Psychiatric Care (HealthDay)

FRIDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A growing number of American children are receiving psychiatric care in hospital emergency departments, particularly children who have no insurance or are covered by Medicaid.

That's the finding of a new study that examined 279 million visits made by children to U.S. emergency departments from 1999 to 2007.

During that time, the rate of psychiatric visits increased from 2.4 percent to 3 percent. Underinsured children accounted for 46 percent of those visits in 1999 and 54 percent in 2007.

The findings, slated to be presented Friday at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Boston, are important for a number of reasons, according to study author Dr. Zachary Pittsenbarger.

As expected, the results show that psychiatric visits by children to emergency departments continue to increase.

"A second, and more novel finding, is that one group in particular is increasing beyond any other socio-demographic group, and that is the publicly insured," Pittsenbarger said in an AAP news release.

"It has been found previously that the publicly insured have fewer treatment options and longer wait times for psychiatric disorders when not hospitalized," he noted. "This new finding argues that limited outpatient mental health resources force those patients to seek the care they need in the emergency department."

Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

More information

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No. 9 Oregon beats No. 18 Arizona State 41-27

Oregon's Kenjon Barner (24) carries the ball during the first quarter of their NCAA college football game with Arizona State, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Oregon's Kenjon Barner (24) carries the ball during the first quarter of their NCAA college football game with Arizona State, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Oregon quarterback Darron Thomas (5) throws the ball during the first quarter of their NCAA college football game with Arizona State, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Arizona State's Brock Osweiler passes the ball as Oregon's Dewitt Stuckey (52) and teammate Blake Thompson (40) apply pressure during the first quarter of their NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Arizona State head coach Dennis Erickson looks on from the sidelines during the first half of their NCAA college football game with Oregon, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) ? Oregon quarterback Darron Thomas was smiling despite his injury Saturday night ? much like teammate LaMichael James the game before.

Thomas became the second star player to go down in two weeks for the No. 9 Ducks during their 41-27 victory over No. 18 Arizona State. Thomas threw for 187 yards and two touchdowns before he came out with a left leg injury early in the second half.

"I'm going to be all right, just to let everybody know," he said, adding that he didn't return as a precaution.

James dislocated his elbow in Oregon's last outing, a 43-15 win over California on Oct. 6. Afterward, he greeted his fellow players outside the locker room, and told reporters it wasn't so bad.

In fact, James wouldn't rule himself out of the game against the Sun Devils, but when game time came Saturday he was on the sideline in sweats.

Kenjon Barner, who started in place of James, ran for 171 yards and a touchdown, while freshman De'Anthony Thomas ran for 73 yards and two scores for Oregon (5-1, 3-0 Pac-12).

Brock Osweiler threw for 291 yards and two touchdowns for the Sun Devils (5-2, 3-1), who have lost seven straight to the Ducks.

It was Oregon's 20th straight victory at Autzen Stadium, as well as the Ducks' 15th straight win over a conference foe.

Without James, Oregon had a tough time getting its vaunted running game going against the Sun Devils, but the Ducks ended up with 327 yards rushing ? 269 in the second half.

"The bottom line is with Oregon, you're playing one of the best teams in the country, and if you allow them to run the football you've got problems," Arizona State coach Dennis Erickson said.

Bryan Bennett, who replaced Thomas at quarterback for the Ducks, completed two of five passes for 22 yards. He also ran for 65 yards.

"When one guy goes down the other guy feels like he's got to pick up the slack," Barner said. "That's what Bryan did and that's what I did."

On the first series of the game, Barner's fumble was recovered by the Sun Devils, who went on to take the early lead with Osweiler's 20-yard touchdown pass to Gerell Robinson.

Oregon tied it midway through the first quarter when De'Anthony Thomas ran a pitch from Darron Thomas 16 yards for a touchdown.

The Sun Devils went up 14-7 on Osweiler's 26-yard pass to Mike Willie. It looked as though Oregon had evened it again when Barner broke away with a 59-yard scoring run, but the TD was called back because of an illegal block.

The Ducks tied it at 14 on Darron Thomas' 28-yard touchdown pass to Lavasier Tuinei. The junior quarterback, who had just connected with Josh Huff on a 45-yard pass, was on the run and looked almost as if he were throwing the ball away ? but he caught Tuinei streaking across the back of the end zone.

Linebacker Shelly Lyons intercepted Thomas on the 41-yard line and ran it back to the Oregon 20, putting the Sun Devils in position to score again ? but they settled for Alex Garoutte's 47-yard field goal to pull back in front 17-14.

It was the 11th interception for Arizona State this season, surpassing last year's total.

Oregon answered when Cliff Harris, suspended to start the season after he was cited for speeding on a suspended license over the summer, intercepted Osweiler and ran it back 50 yards. The Ducks went on to score on Darron Thomas' 16-yard pass to David Paulson and take a 21-17 lead into halftime.

Arizona State regained the lead early in the second half on Cameron Marshall's 4-yard scoring run. But just a few plays later, Sun Devils linebacker Colin Parker fell on Thomas' legs, and the Oregon quarterback did not get up.

Darron Thomas grimaced as he was attended to by team trainers, but he got up and jogged off the field. He received further treatment on the sidelines before limping off to the locker room.

He was replaced by Bennett, who led the Ducks on a scoring drive that ended with De'Anthony Thomas' 3-yard touchdown run.

The Ducks extended their lead to 35-24 on Barner's 7-yard scoring run. Alejandro Maldonado had a 37-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter.

Garoutte added a 30-yard field goal for the Sun Devils, and Maldonado came back with a 24-yarder for the Ducks for the final margin.

After rushing for 23 yards in the first half, Barner got 148 in the second.

"I just had to let the game come to me rather than force it," he said.

Darron Thomas, who has thrown a touchdown pass in 19 straight games, eventually returned to the sidelines with a brace on his left leg. He watched with James, both players wearing dark green raincoats.

After the game, Thomas said both knees were hit.

"It didn't get twisted," he said. "I got landed on."

The Sun Devils have lost 16 straight games to teams ranked in the top 10.The announced crowd was 60,055, the largest ever at Autzen Stadium.

Associated Press

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