The Los Angeles Times

(The headline as published has been corrected in this text.) Blossom Dearie, the singer and songwriter whose sweet soprano voice, harmonically innovative piano stylings and sophisticated performance made her a...

JERUSALEM -- First there was the "healing through laughter" seminar. Then "Orit the Carpenter," sort of a lesbian Martha Stewart, took the microphone and yelled: "We have seen our share...

In 1994, Rush Limbaugh was a field marshal in the Republican revolution, rallying troops fervid in their passion and determined to shake Washington upside down. Fifteen years later, Republicans are...

With the recession choking foreign travel, applications for passports are plunging, and the workload at the State Department is easing enough that those applying are getting the documents in three...

Preschool-age children seem to be always on the go. Or maybe not. A study of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in preschool has found that these children are anything but physically...

The IndyCar Series enters its first full season of reunification with a shuffled list of racing venues and question marks involving several of its top drivers. A year ago the...

It was shortly after 7 a.m. when police spotted the man on a bicycle, a smear of blood around his mouth and more dribbling from cuts on his forearms. But...

Driver rosters for the elite teams in NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup Series in 2009 are largely the same as last season. But many fans might need a program to keep...

At some point, almost every traveler suffers from seasickness or some other form of motion sickness. Mal de mer, as the French call it, is so common on cruise ships...

Despite some cost-cutting at Formula One and changes in the design of its race cars, one constant remains in the international racing series for 2009: The teams to beat are...