WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at ...

Kim Yong Nam, the former head of North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament who served as nominal head of state for more than 20 years, has died, state media reported on Tuesday. He was 97. The Barron's ...

There’s nothing quite like rigor mortis to make a show come to life. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “The Addams Family” managed to do just that, proving that sometimes a little ...

Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” to the protective mother in “Wild at Heart,” has died at 89.Ladd’s ...

OJAI, Calif. (AP) — Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” to the protective mother in “Wild at Heart,” has ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died. Banks, 83, died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison in Pennsylvania, the state Department of ...

ROME (AP) — Firefighters late Monday finally managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that partially collapsed during renovation work in the heart of Italy’s capital, ...

OJAI, Calif. — Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” to the protective mother in “Wild at Heart,” has died at ...

A 57-year-old man died in a two-vehicle motorcycle crash in Livingston Parish Sunday, Louisiana State Police said. Earl Duncan of Springfield was traveling north on a 1999 Honda motorcycle at about 2 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a soulful mezzo-soprano who provided backing vocals on such 1960s classics as “Suspicious Minds” and “When a Man Loves a Woman” and was a featured singer ...