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Rudy Ray Moore, whose standup comedy, records and movies related earthy rhyming tales of a vivid gaggle of characters as they lurched from sexual escapade to sexual escapade in a...

Q. I have two Kohler toilets in my house, which is 35 years old. They have given me good service all these years, but my water is from an artesian...

Julie Benz agreed to join the cast of "Saw V" for two very compelling -- but extremely different -- reasons. "One of the original producers, Gregg Hoffman, was a friend...

Bill Reilly, a publishing and media executive who was a founder and former chairman of Primedia Inc., which under his leadership amassed a varied portfolio of more than 200 magazines,...

Angelina Jolie does not travel light. A few weeks ago, when she arrived for the New York Film Festival premiere of "Changeling," the new Clint Eastwood drama opening Friday, she...

Gail Robinson, a soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera of New York for nearly two decades starting in 1970 and who went on to a career as a teacher...

With the prospects for agreement on a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact in doubt, the idea of allowing U.S.-led troops to stay under a UN mandate resurfaced this week, and Russia's...

India launched its first unmanned spacecraft to orbit the moon early Wednesday, part of an effort to assert its power in space and claim some of the business opportunities there....

Dave McKenna, a jazz pianist who began his career as a big-band sideman but became best known for his distinctive solo playing, with a powerful left hand that made a...

George Keller, who as chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of California in the 1980s executed what was then the largest corporate takeover ever, a deal in which SoCal swallowed...