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  • Ashis Roy 81 adds a half marathon to his bag of 115

    India's marathon man Ashis Roy added another half marathon to his bag of 115 full marathons as he completed his 11th 13-mile run in the San Francisco marathon 2013. Clocking a time of 3 hours and 37 minutes, the 81-year-old cardiologist, the oldest participant in the marathon, clipped five minutes from his last run in Alexandria, Virginia, three weeks back. Roy, a resident of Delhi's ...

  • My Mormon past left me afraid to have fun says Amy Adams

    Amy Adams has confessed that she was not confident enough after her first breakthrough as Hollywood glitz and glamour was quite different from her past in the Mormon Church. She revealed that she grew up as a Mormon and that had more of an impact on her values than her beliefs, the Sun reported. The 38-year-old star said that she choked and felt a lot of pressure after reaching at the ...

  • Pileup on freeway north of LA snarls traffic

    KABC-TV reports three were critically hurt in Monday's wreck caused by an apparent wrong-way driver. The accident, which involved at least eight vehicles, occurred during afternoon rush hour on the 14 Freeway in the Antelope Valley. Traffic was snarled for ...

  • Plan opens up acres of Calif. dunes to off-roaders

    EL CENTRO, Calif. -; About 85 percent of an extensive dune system near the U.S.-Mexico border would be open to off-road vehicles under a new federal management plan opposed by ...

  • Video Miss Utah latest beauty queen to botch answer elicit cringes across web

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Miss Utah Marissa Powell is the latest beauty queen to trip on national television, not over her gown, but during the interview ...

Movie Review

There's Something About Mary

There are two possible responses to the Farrelly Brothers' new movie, "There's Something About Mary": either you will think it childish, stupid, juvenile, and sick, and walk out of the theater in the first half hour; or you will think it childish, stupid, juvenile, and sick, and walk out of the theater after the movie is over with tears in your eyes from laughing so hard. Since 1994's "Dumb and Du ... ...

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  • Lawsuit Holding OTL Tourney Hostage

    FreePB.org's case against the city -- saying it's holding OTL hostage, unless FreePB gets a special event alcohol permit it failed to obtain from city ...

  • California median housing price increases by most in 33 years

    In May 2013, homes costing $500,000 or more accounted for 35.4 percent of sales in California, up from 24.6 percent a year ago. (Keith Birmingham/Staff Photographer) The median price of a previously owned house in California soared 31.9 percent in May, the largest year-over-year increase in more than three decades as sales of more expensive properties increased and inventory remained tight, a ...

  • As many as 6 dead in S. California shootings gunman also killed

    A gunman killed at least six people in Santa Monica, California, on Friday before he was shot dead by police at a library of a community college, Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said. Seabrooks said a second individual she described as a "person of interest" had been taken into custody in connection with the violence, which unfolded a few miles from where President Barack Obama was ...

  • Tennis great Gene Mako dies in Calif. at 97

    Ezekiel Elliott went to last year's Class 3 state track meet focused on taking down Dapo Akinmoladun, the great hurdler from Kansas City ...

  • As hit the road after Coliseum sewage flood

    ARLINGTON -- Athletics manager Bob Melvin said the team was fortunate the sewage flood in both clubhouses at O.co Coliseum on Sunday occurred at the end of a six-game homestand. The Athletics and Mariners showered in the Raiders' locker room after the game as a result of backed up pipes during the game. The Athletics won't play in Oakland for another week when they start an eight-game ...

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