Richard Phillips

Garett Lewis of Highland Park snagged a top-flight sponsor for this weekend`s March of Dimes national walkathon. Garett, 6, the official walkathon spokesman, knew that Barbara Bush would precede him...

He`s in a body cast from chest to right foot and left knee, but 6-year-old Albert Gore III finally has been discharged from Johns Hopkins Children`s Hospital. Young Albert ran...

Perhaps Morton Downey Jr. finally is on the receiving end of life`s whatever-goes-around-comes-around phenomenon. He suffered an involuntary haircut in a men`s room at San Francisco`s airport, supposedly at the...

Oh, such generosity: Few viewers will be honored with wedding invitations, but Playboy magazine is offering something graphic to fondly remember upcoming nuptials between founder Hugh Hefner, 63, and leggy...

Postal carriers deliver despite rain, sleet and snow. But obfuscation, too? Ask Richard Mendenhall, a 23-year veteran in Columbus, Ohio, who was suspended for two weeks for uttering ''junk mail''...

She`s been dead 12 years, but Joan Crawford still sparks tales of spite. Bette Davis says Mommie Dearest scuttled her Oscar bid after they starred in 1962`s ''Whatever Happened to...

Thanks to ''zero tolerance,'' President Bush and Jordan`s King Hussein enjoyed a splendid spin along the Potomac. The 61-foot yacht on which they so plushly rode had been seized from...

It started out as a ''Wow'' for wide-eyed Julia Bensen and four friends from Newcastle, Me. It ended up as ''Wow and Bow-Wow.'' Julia, 8, was waiting excitedly in the...

Morton the Downer was inside, doing his thing for hot air at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. Meanwhile, an anonymous benefactor outside was deflating all the tires of...

Think big, that`s Kenichi Horie`s motto. Before leaving San Francisco in a plastic sailboat just 9 feet long and setting sail back to Japan, Horie explained his one-man craft, which...