PHILADELPHIA — Jan Berenstain, who with her husband Stan wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88.
NASCAR’s biggest event of the year is now scheduled to get under way Monday at 4 p.m. PST, a day after the much-anticipated season-opening stock car race was postponed by rain for the first time in its 54-year history.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say actress Sean Young was placed under citizen’s arrest after a fight at the official post-Oscars party.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kevin Durant cringes a little whenever he hears his name next to words like elite or superstar.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kobe, KD and the West looked ready to deliver a quick KO. Kevin Durant knew better.
Just east of Victorville in California’s Mojave Desert two bluffs rise 3,000 feet from the valley floor. A 1949 map by the U.S. Geological Survey officially gave them the name locals had called them for as long as anyone could remember: Pickaninny Buttes.
“The Artist” won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood’s highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. Among other prizes for the black-and-white comic melodrama were best actor for Jean Dujardin and director for Michel Hazanavicius.
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision upheld Indiana’s voter-identification law, declaring a requirement to produce photo identification is not unconstitutional and that the state has a “valid interest” in improving election procedures as well as deterring fraud.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A lot of coaches would go ballistic if their 6-foot-10-inch center stepped outside and shot a 3-pointer with the clock running down and their team trailing on the road.
