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Jurors heard opening arguments Tuesday in the case of a bird-watching enthusiast charged with animal cruelty in the fatal shooting of a cat last November that he said was stalking...

Sad love, crazy love, bad love, joyful love, life-or-death love: Those were what Concha Buika sang about in her magnificent New York City debut recently at the Brooklyn Academy of...

Laraine Day, a ladylike leading lady who appeared in almost two dozen MGM films from 1939 to 1945, notably as nurse Mary Lamont in the series of Dr. Kildare movies,...

John E. Grenier, a former executive director of the Republican National Committee and one of the architects of Sen. Barry Goldwater's Southern strategy in his failed bid for the presidency...

Jill and Joanie Shockley just want to breathe clean air in their homes. Neighboring tenants want to smoke in theirs. The Shockleys are sisters who live down the hall from...

Jane Cooper, a prominent poet whose work explored women's struggle to maintain meaningful artistic lives in postwar America -- or in fact in the America of any era -- died...

Were you one of the millions of gardeners who purchased rosebushes this year? I know I was. The thought of fragrant cut roses on the dining room table danced in...

By May 2002, the government's effort to build a technologically audacious new generation of spy satellites was foundering. The contractor building the satellites, Boeing, was still giving Washington reassuring progress...

At J. Roaman, a home furnishings store in East Hampton, N.Y., a painted white iron bed wears a giant charm bracelet over its left head post. The bracelet isn't there...

Do you believe in God? What will happen to you at death? Do you pray? Do you think religious believers are deluded? Many people would hesitate to raise these questions...