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Barry Shames isn't a vintner, but he is the proud owner of a vineyard, an 18-acre plot of merlot vines in Northern California. And if he ever feels like dropping...

Framed by lush vegetation and spreading palms, the simple wood-framed house of worship off the main street isn't so different from the other small churches you find on this Caribbean...

Elaine Lorillard, a socialite who with her husband, Louis, lured jazz greats to their Rhode Island hometown for a two-day concert series in the summer of 1954, starting the Newport...

In July 1969, as the world was spellbound by the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, President Richard Nixon and his advisers were quietly fretting about a nuclear arms race...

American troops killed at least five people, including a child, when they fired on vehicles trying to drive through roadblocks in two separate incidents in Iraq in the past two...

Frank Guarrera, a lyric baritone who sang at the Metropolitan Opera for nearly 30 years, has died. He was 83. He died Friday at his home in Bellmawr, N.J., of...

The American Red Cross dismissed its president and chief executive, Mark Everson, on Tuesday, citing his "personal relationship with a subordinate employee." He had held the job only six months....

It is heartening to learn that a member of the cyber-elite cannot figure out how to turn off her iPod, and that she sometimes fumbles new programs on her laptop....

Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her 7-year-old pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials said Monday. The...

Hundreds of hospice providers nationwide are facing the catastrophic financial consequence of what would otherwise seem a positive development: Their patients are living longer than expected. Over the last eight...