Bobby Womack, a prolific gospel-soul singer who also wrote songs recorded by the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, George Benson and others, died Friday. He was 70.
The stre...
Slow landing device sought
Mark Adler has worked as an engineer and program manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California for more than 20 years, mos...
WASHINGTON — Several members of California’s congressional delegation are pushing to name a new post office after the late actress Marilyn Monroe.
Democratic Rep. Tony C...
Risk rises in puberty
Watch your knees, girls.
A new study in Pediatrics, the journal for the American Academy of Pediatrics, found that anterior cruciate ligament injuri...
NEW YORK — Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway icon Richard Rodgers who found her own fame as composer of the 1959 musical “Once Upon a Mattress” and as the author of...
President visits Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — President Barack Obama is pitching his ideas to boost the American middle class in Minnesota, a state that already has embraced a...
Police face lawsuits in some cases
DENVER — Police in some medical marijuana states who once routinely seized illegal pot plants by ripping them out by their roots and st...
Treasury spurs private investors
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is extending for another year a program aimed at helping people struggling to avoid foreclosure on ...
DENVER — Hillary Rodham Clinton says her “inartful” comments about her family’s wealth don’t reflect who she really is, pointing to her efforts to help working families....
NEW YORK — As a masterful character actor and early product of postwar, Method-style theater, Eli Wallach wore countless faces, disappearing into them all. But he was al...
