LOS ANGELES - Richard Pryor startled audiences with his foul-mouthed routines, but his universal and frequently personal insights propelled him into one of Hollywood's biggest stars. The pioneering comedian, whose audacious style influenced generations of standup artists, died Saturday of a heart attack at age 65, said his business manager, Karen Finch.

He had been ill for years with mul...

CLEVELAND - For an instant, LeBron James again sees life through the frightened eyes of a fatherless 8-year-old boy. Sitting in the basement conference room of Antioch Baptist Church, James has just finished handing out Thanksgiving groceries to families as needy as his own once was. A few weeks shy of his 21st birthday, the Cavaliers' superstar is allowing a rare glimpse into his well-guarded...

Clarke made two more eagles, bringing his total this week to five, and putted for eagle on the other three par 5s. A sand wedge to within 8 feet on the 18th hole for birdie put him at 14-under 202.

"Usually, this week for me is a party week, but the scoring is getting in the way," Clarke said.

Campbell had never trailed from his opening-round 63, but fell out of the lead with a thre...

"I think the stupidest factor is using skin color and test scores," Michael Winsten said.

The case highlights a predicament faced across the country 51 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school children cannot be segregated by race: How to create integrated schools without violating anti-discrimination laws.

At issue in the Capistrano case is Proposition 209, a measure Ca...

"Things just look so attractive, and credit is so available," says Mary Hunt of Garden Grove, founder of the Cheapskate Monthly newsletter, now called Debt-Proof Living. "We want the kids to have everything, and we just go nuts."

Jim Frannea, chief executive of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Orange County, says stores play on our need over the holidays to be loved and feel good...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The scene screams South Florida in early December.

The pair of thick-accented septuagenarians meet in a half-hug of smiles and back pats, talking and walking in an exchange that, were these not the two winningest coaches in college football history, could have been easily mistook for reunion chat about shuffleboards and early-birds.

"How's Ann?" Joe Paterno, less ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jean Parker, the lovely brunette star of "Sequoia," "Little Women," "The Ghost Goes West" and other hit films of the 1930s and '40s, has died. She was 90.

Parker died Nov. 30 of complications from a stroke at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital, her son, Robert Hanks, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday. She had lived at the retirement home si...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - When Michael Winsten and his wife, Cheryl, moved here four years ago, they expected their young children eventually would attend the high school down the hill, about a 3 1/2-mile bike ride from their home.

Since then, relentless growth in this Orange County community has forced a school district building boom, and the Winstens' five children will have take a bus to...

ATLANTA -- Anita Alston sleeps on an air mattress because she can't afford a bed yet. Just up the road, Katrina Lawson is using bed sheets for curtains until she can buy the real thing.

Both of the twenty-something women have learned plenty about working hard and saving money since moving into their first homes last month.

As former foster children -- two of the roughly 20,000 each...

A representative from the Bishop's Office in Virginia spoke yesterday with District Superintendent William Anthony Layman, who presides over the Petersberg district, to which South Hill belongs. Layman reported that the name and age of the gay man has not been released, and that he has not gained membership into South Hill.

In June, Bishop Charlene P. Kammerer of the Virginia Conference ...