Los Angeles  - Dwyane Wade was good until the very last drop.

Wade poured in 41 points, including the game-sealing free throws with 6.1 seconds, carrying the Miami Heat to its season-high fourth straight victory, 100-96 over the pesky Charlotte Bobcats on Monday night.

"It's winning time," Wade said. "This is a good Charlotte Bobcats team. They're just like us, they play until the very end."

Wade entered the home contest with a league-best 28.4 scoring average and padded it, with his 14th career game of 40 or more points, including three this season.

Mario Chalmers scored 15 points and Shawn Marion added 13 for Miami (12-9) which matched its longest streak since March 2006.

Los Angeles  - "Black Monday." That's how the trade magazine Editor & Publisher chose to headline its story about the demise of the Tribune Co - one of the most august and profitable newspaper companies in the United States.

The owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and a host of other papers and TV properties, the company filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, unable to meet payments on a growing mountain of debt.

The company's situation was unusual. Tribune Co was saddled with debt when it was bought out by billionaire investor Sam Zell last year in a highly leveraged deal.

Washington/Los Angeles  - A US F/A-18 fighter jet crashed Monday into a neighbourhood in San Diego, California, killing at least three people and damaging two homes in the densely populated area, authorities said.

The pilot of the Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet was trying to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar after a training mission, when the jet went down about 3 kilometres north-west of the airfield, Marine Corps Corporal Francis Goch said.

Washington/Los Angeles  - A US F/A-18 fighter jet crashed Monday into a San Diego, California, neighbourhood, killing at least two people and damaging two homes in the densely populated area, authorities said.

The Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet was trying to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar after a training mission when it went down about 3 kilometres northwest of the airfield, Marine Corps Corporal Francis Goch said.

Los Angeles  - Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has put her luxurious home in Los Angeles' Bel Air neighbourhood up for sale for 8.5 million dollars in a move that suggests she could be leaving the west coast for New York, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

J-Lo, her singer husband, Marc Anthony, and their 9-month-old twins currently live in the French farmhouse-style home, but have been the subject of ongoing sightings in the Long Island community of Brookville.

Los Angeles - Randy Wittman became the latest NBA coaching casualty, after the bottom-feeding Minnesota Timbwervolves fired him and named vice president of basketball operations, Kevin McHale, as his replacement.

Wittman's dismissal comes on the heels of a five-game losing streak, including a 29-point drubbing by the New Jersey Nets, and a 23-point embarrassment at the hands of the equally-abysmal LA Clippers (4-16) over the weekend