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Jane Elfers, the chief executive of Lord & Taylor credited by industry professionals with bringing the sheen back to the chain, was forced out in a management shake-up. The change,...

Russia continued its international muscle-flexing Friday, strengthening its ties to Venezuela through a $1 billion military loan and a new oil consortium as it announced an upgrade of its own...

After more than four years exploring the comic possibilities hidden in nearly every warren of a Boston hotel, the producers of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" (7 p.m....

Nappy Brown, a blues and R&B singer whose playful songs of the mid-1950s -- filled with nonsense syllables, eccentric pronunciation and a heavy beat -- had touches of early rock...

Everyone entering the Stardust Ballroom last weekend at the Catskills hotel Kutsher's was urged to take a pair of earplugs, and for good reason: the music at the last day...

Connie Haines, a peppy, petite, big-voiced singer with a zippy, rhythmic style who most famously teamed up with Frank Sinatra as lead vocalists with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, then went...

Dr. Robert Katzman, the neurologist, researcher and medical activist who redefined Alzheimer's disease as a major public health problem and as the most frequent progressive form of dementia in aging,...

In his mid-60s, Ekkehart Malotki, a retired linguistics professor, willingly dangled from a rope tied to a car that was backed to the edge of a cliff. A half-dozen times,...

Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, who early saw the political utility of not using his first name and who went on to play significant roles in matters from the Kennedy assassination...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution Tuesday for a Georgia inmate convicted of killing a police officer in 1989, two hours before his scheduled death by lethal...