The following text is a radio address by President Bush: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This Memorial Day weekend, kids will be out of school, moms and dads will be firing up the grill, and families across our country will mark
By Robert DarntonInformation is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What, for example, will become of research libraries
By Joyce Carol OatesThe Enchantress of Florenceby Salman RushdieIn Salman Rushdie's Fury (2001), a novel of Swiftian dyspepsia published the very week of September 11, the fifty-five-year-old misanthropic Professor Malik Solanka, 'retired historian of ideas,' has enjoyed an unexpected popular
By Freeman DysonA Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policiesby William NordhausGlobal Warming: Looking Beyond Kyotoedited by Ernesto ZedilloI begin this review with a prologue, describing the measurements that transformed global warming from a vague theoretical speculation
A professional skateboarder is facing a felony charge of committing a lewd act with a 15-year-old girl. The Orange County Sheriff's Department says 36-year-old Brian Keith Patch was arrested on May 14 at his home in Westminster.
A motorist was killed early Saturday morning in a rollover crash on the Golden State (5) Freeway in Santa Clarita, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Sure, they come to see the fancy cars and the hot motorcycles but what really draws the crowd in at the 6th annual "Chili Cook-Off, Car & Motorcycle Show", of course, is the chili. The Chili Cook-Off kicks off Saturday
Police say a man was fatally injured after being ejected from a SUV during a rollover crash early Saturday morning on the 6th Street Bridge. Two other passengers in that SUV also suffered injuries.
Authorities say survivors of a deadly Catalina helicopter crash have been airlifted to mainland hospitals. Three people died and three were hurt -- two of them critically -- when the chopper went down around 9:30 Saturday morning on the island's
A police chase and gun fight ended early Saturday morning with one of three suspects wounded in Sun Valley. Los Angeles police said they began following a possibly stolen, red compact on San Fernando Road about 5 a.m.
Is there a hater in Hemet? A sheriff's sergeant reported that a person or persons spray-painted a swastika, "white pride" other racial slurs and a sexually derogatory remark referring to the female anatomy on exterior walls and benches at Dartmouth
The LAPD is asking the public's help in finding a missing 41-year-old man who has the mental capacity of a 5-year-old. Phok Lim was last seen leaving his home in the 10800 block of White Street in Sun Valley around
Police in Palm Desert are on the hunt for a robbery suspect who shot and wounded a store clerk shortly before 3:25 a.m. Saturday, according to authorities. Police say the would-be robber shot a convenience store clerk at an am/pm
A 23-year-old man who was struck by a hit-and-run driver Friday has died of his injuries, according to the Kern County's Sheriff's office. Paul Waggoner, of Bakersfield, was walking in a crosswalk when he was struck by an unknown vehicle
Police said a vengeful teenager who heard that her ex-boyfriend had taken another girl to the high school prom set his house on fire, leaving his family of 10 with no place to live.
