I wrote "previously" that my laptop search is now in the decision phase. Make that "the indecision phase." I will certainly delay until I get home next week....

Science fiction has always told us not to dabble with the natural world. Now "The Storm," an NBC mini-series, warns us anew.

So, with the help of a colleague's email, I figured out which Dells I should be looking at: the E4200 and E4300. The reviews of the E4300 don't make it look that good; the E4200 gets a better press, although

I had not originally planned to consider buying an SSD drive for my new laptop. There are lots of reasons not to, including the high price, and the relative immaturity of the technology. (The relatively low capacity doesn't bother me

It's a heckuva time to debut a theater company, but Cincinnati Outdoor Shakespeare will begin life with free performances of the comedy-romance "As You Like It" Sept. 1-6.

The poster child for the Southern California singer-songwriter movement of the early 1970s is still making vital music more than 40 years into a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career.

Blackboard - Test Prep - Just Following Orders - An Evil Essay - NYTimes.com The author, who has an SAT-prep-firm, took the test in order to see how essays are graded. As an experiment, who wrote the most morally evil

Paul Newman is the leading vote-getter, followed closely by James Stewart. Goodykoontz's pick for No. 1, Jack Nicholson, was a distant third. You can still vote for your favorite.

If "G-Force" has a cousin, it isn't "Ratatouille" (not by a long shot), but "Alvin and the Chipmunks," the 2007 film that also married live action with furry, animated clichés.

The annual Oxford International Film Festival kicked off Friday with more than 70 international, independent films, and a slew of workshops, panel discussions and free concerts.

David Payne writes for Covers Expert Ben Burns . If a team can't bounce back from blowing a big lead, its season could be in trouble. If you can't bounce back from being on the wrong side of one of

Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he will accept President Barack Obama's invitation to visit him at the White House.

For the second time in a week, Taliban fighters armed with suicide vests and automatic weapons have attacked a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan.

Motorists in Longview say they see more people standing on street corners begging for money or food, more commonly called pan-handling.

An Upshur county man is sentenced to prison, for his part in a motorcycle crash that killed his passenger.

Authorities found the horses infested with parasites and overgrown hooves when they raided the 3-Strikes Mustang Ranch in Nebraska in April.

The Mavs reportedly gave journeyman Drew Gooden the bulk of their midlevel exception to fill the void left by Brandon Bass' departure.

Music is a part of our lives, particularly those artists that helped define our youth. Those same artists still recording new music and touring every year makes it all the better. We're still here, and so are they. Also Online

Arlington police are looking for witnesses to the city's 21st traffic fatality of 2009. According to police reports of witness accounts, the driver of a Honda Accord was traveling eastbound at up to 100 miles per hour at about 6:15