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Flor Medrano went to the police for help. Her estranged, abusive boyfriend was stalking her and threatening to kill her. Medrano was terrified.

Archaeologists have recovered six cannons from the ships of Welsh privateer Henry Morgan, the first artifacts found in Panama to be linked to the man who remains a legend there, the team said Monday.

It’s been rough being a Lucinda Williams fan for the past decade; we’ve listened as the singer, one of the great songwriters of the 1990s, floundered with albums that failed to measure up to the stuff of her legend. The...

The Los Angeles Unified School District has rightly been raising the bar for its public schools. Now it needs to do the same for its charter schools.

If you want to understand why it's so hard for governments, both federal and state, to put their accounts in order, consider the recent comments of Bill Richardson , former nearly everything including governor of New Mexico and a semi-serious candidate for president.

Tiger Blood! Mercury Surfboards! Winning!: A dictionary guide to Charlie Sheen's best quotes

Sirhan Sirhan, who has spent 42 years behind bars for the assassination U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, will have his 13th parole hearing Wednesday. Sirhan's attorney William F. Pepper told the Associated Press that his client had no...

"Pawlenty's attacks get more pointed," announced a headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "He's betting sharper rhetoric will spring him from GOP pack," clarified the subhead.

The nation's gasoline costs are surging at a pace not seen since Hurricane Katrina shut down Gulf Coast refinery operations over the Labor Day weekend in 2005.

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It was an alley-oop from heaven.

Breaking: Actress Jane Russell, star of Howard Hughes' 'The Outlaw,' dies at 89: http://lat.ms/eZ5Z4p

Frank Woodruff Buckles, a onetime Missouri farm boy who was the last known living American veteran of World War I , has died. He was 110.

It may be common knowledge, but the 2011 Oscars proved it beyond a doubt: The reason we watch the show is as much to hear what the winners say as to find out who actually won.

In the most memorable line in one of the most memorable of baseball songs, he was third.