Mesa sports athletes, cheerleaders and other students who participate in extracurricular activities could one day have more reason to think twice about going to a party where drugs and alcohol may be ...

Last month, my wife and I left work one evening and drove two hours in the deepening dusk, headed to the wake of an elderly loved one who had surprised us all by dying in her sleep. I knew that we’d ...

We’re keeping a terrarium on the kitchen counter, something our son brought from his dormitory when he came back home to live with us for the summer. In a lidded glass globe that looks like a cookie ...

GRIFFITH — Griffith police are still investigating a report of several shots fired into a home Aug. 31. Police believe the shooting was "not a random act," according to a news release posted to the ...

When you order a glass of wine, you never ask how many ounces you’ll get. Don’t lie to me; no one ever does. Nor do I. But no one knows what constitutes the amount of a house pour. It’s usually up to ...

The VEM Quartet, which is the graduate string quartet in residence at UCLA ’s Herb Alpert School of Music, is spearheading a new incentive there to raise the profile of Armenian musical traditions.

On the third day of the great rain, when the sky had cleared just enough to lure me toward the newspaper at the end of the drive, I sensed a long, dark shadow as I walked to collect the morning ...

A Buffalo man who spent 20 years in prison for maiming and robbing an 81-year-old church woman in 1996 now faces attempted murder and other charges for allegedly committing a similar offense weeks ...

24-year-old Jacqueline Beadle dropped her young son off at her mother's home on Friday. That was the last time Beadle's mom saw her alive. "The mother, as well as other family members, had not heard ...