CHICAGO — Jessy Dixon, a singer and songwriter who introduced his energetic style of gospel music to wider audiences by serving as pop singer Paul Simon’s opening act, died Monday. He was 73.
PERUGIA, Italy — Italian lawyers described Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, as a “she-devil” and a “witch” in an appeals court Monday while calling her alleged victim a “beautiful girl in the prime of her life.”
JERUSALEM — Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel’s national museum and web giant Google.
MANCHESTER, Conn. — When Keith Wearne goes grocery shopping, checking out with a cashier is worth the few extra moments, rather than risking that a self-serve machine might go awry and delay him even more.
PALM BAY, Fla. — A Florida couple returned from a monthlong vacation to find they had some new — and stinky — roommates.
As a brilliant trick play unfolded, Johnny Knox put a major scare into everyone who bet against the Chicago Bears. A last-minute punt return for a touchdown appeared to produce a miracle point-spread cover.
SALT LAKE CITY — A North Carolina man crawled four days across the Utah desert after breaking his leg on a solo hike, inspired by a Hollywood movie about a man who cut off his own arm to save himself after being trapped by a boulder in the same canyon.
SALT LAKE CITY — Thousands of people stripped to their underwear and ran through Salt Lake City to protest what they called the “uptight” laws of Utah.
Lady Gaga switched hotels last week, moving out of The Cosmopolitan after one night because she reportedly wanted a room with a pool.
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson was physically exhausted from a day of grueling rehearsals for his marathon 50-night comeback tour. But his nightly battle with insomnia had just begun. After showering and getting into bed, he called for his “milk,” a powerful drug he had been using to escape into unconsciousness.