The U.F.C. star Jon Jones was charged with drunken driving after the Bentley he was driving struck a utility pole in Binghamton, N.Y., the police said.

The U.F.C. star Jon Jones was charged with drunken driving after the Bentley he was driving struck a utility pole in Binghamton, N.Y., the police said.

A bronze medalist in tae kwon do in the 2008 Olympics, Diana Lopez will compete in the 2012 Games with her brother Steven.

The bill, passed in the State Senate for the third consecutive year, would make New York the 46th state to allow the sport.

“Fightville,” a documentary by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, explores mixed martial arts and the men devoted to this few-holds-barred brand of fighting.

The New York State Senate voted, 43 to 14, to make New York the 46th state to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts.

Amputees pursuing careers in mixed martial arts have come up against state athletic commissions concerned about licensing them and able-bodied fighters concerned about fighting them.

The fighter Alistair Overeem failed a drug test in Nevada, putting plans for his scheduled U.F.C. heavyweight championship matchup in jeopardy.

Coach Yoshihiro Uchida, 92, built the San Jose State judo program into a national power and has almost single-handedly elevated the stature and visibility of the sport in the United States.

The erroneous title on a Reuters video, saying that female ninjas in Iran were being trained as assassins, resulted in the government’s suspending the news agency’s staff there.

Mixed martial arts, a relatively new sport that allows fighters to use any style of combat to subdue an opponent, has come to represent for many young men everything that boxing once did: the ultimate measure of manhood, endurance and guts. Photos (L)5

“Caged” on MTV joins “Jersey Shore,” “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom 2” in illuminating youth subcultures.

The mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano is making her big-screen debut in Haywire, a revenge thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh, a collaboration that proved therapeutic for both of them. Photos (M)c

The suspect in the White House shooting comes from Idaho, a state with a history of right-wing extremism, but he was not part of those movements, acquaintances said.

Matthew Polly and Jim Genia, two chroniclers of mixed martial arts, a popular sport that is illegal in New York State, participated in a “Battle of the Books” last week.