Most of the really big sites like news.com are pretty crap when it comes to SEO. Just because they do something don't assume its right. If you have 50 million backlinks you can use whatever characters you like in your url and still get good serps.
Yep both of you are right, I did ask which one was better and if there was one that was better then I guess it would have to be -. And there was a post that said + was ok So why argue? -- you guys are both right.
check this out - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=used+toyota+yaris+devon&btnG=Search&meta= More specifically see the motors today listing (Pos 3 or 4) heck they've even called their pages .seo! If you click through to the page im surprised they arn't banned? all I see is their header and spam basically!
ya, big sites dont care onpage seo, u can see espn.com, how its links and onpage even DP links are not perfect.