Ed Koch

Edward Koch dies at 88; outspoken mayor led New York City comeback

2013-02-02 00:00:00

In the late 1970s when Edward I. Koch won his first term as mayor of New York, the city was in shambles, its coffers and confidence sapped by financial crises and a paralyzing blackout. It needed a fighter and found one in Koch, a well-practiced pol...

Eric Garcetti for mayor

2013-02-17 00:00:00

Los Angeles is an underachieving city led in recent decades by a succession of underachieving mayors — people who came in with big dreams or big talk but soon got bored with the day-to-day task of steering a municipality. Voters don't get to conduct...

Ed Koch remembered as 'Uncle Eddie' and a savior of New York

2013-02-04 11:40:00

NEW YORK -- To his family, Ed Koch was "Uncle Eddie." To New Yorkers, he was "hizzoner," the omnipresent three-term mayor who was remembered Monday as the man who lifted a grim city to glory but who always had time for his nieces, nephews, and a...

Beer monopoly? What beer monopoly?

2013-02-03 14:30:00

Like many of you readers, I find a way to pass through the beer aisle just about every time I go to the supermarket. And over the years, I've seen lesser-known regional and imported brews take up an increasing amount of shelf space next to the Budweisers,...

Edward Koch, outspoken New York City mayor

2013-02-02 09:41:36

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Alabama abduction: Boy still held in underground bunker

2013-02-01 21:52:00

Police negotiated through a 4-inch ventilation pipe Friday with the suspected gunman holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural southeast Alabama, four days after a man shot and killed a bus driver while abducting the boy from a...

Ed Koch dies on day his documentary opens

2013-02-01 11:35:00

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died the same day a new documentary about his life and legacy opened in New York. "Koch," which will open in Southern California theaters beginning March 1, offers evidence that the combative mayor had mellowed...

'Bambigate': Indiana pair rescue deer, get snarled in legal woes

2013-02-02 06:00:00

In Indiana, intrigue and outrage over "Bambigate" is coming to an end. That's right: Bambigate -- the unofficial moniker for the case of an eastern Indiana couple who face misdemeanor “illegal possession of a whitetail deer” charges for...

Flu outbreak remains high, but waning, CDC says

2013-02-01 14:03:00

This season’s outbreak of flu continues to be high -- especially among the elderly and the young -- but appears to be waning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. Flu-like illnesses appeared to be falling in the East but...

Kidnapped boy heard crying for parents from Alabama bunker

2013-02-01 10:02:00

A four-inch-wide ventilation pipe has become the umbilical cord linking the outside world to a 5-year-old boy who has been held prisoner by a murder suspect in an underground bunker in rural Alabama since Tuesday. As the standoff enters its fourth day,...

Phoenix lawyer shot after mediation session dies

2013-02-01 08:34:00

A lawyer wounded in an attack at a Phoenix office has died, bringing the toll from this week’s shooting to three, including the gunman. Mark Hummels, 43, was taken off life support Thursday night,� Athia Hardt, a spokeswoman for his law firm...

Texas officials chasing leads in prosecutor's shooting death

2013-02-01 11:07:00

HOUSTON -- The Kaufman County Courthouse remained closed Friday as investigators continued their search for clues in the wake of a brazen fatal shooting of a prosecutor just outside the building a day earlier, officials said.� During a Friday morning...

No Rating; 1:35 running time What an entertaining rapscallion Ed Koch was during his run as mayor of New York in the late '70s and '80s. Popular, polarizing, loved, hated, even 20-plus years after he left office, he never failed to attract a crowd as he walked the streets of the city.

2013-03-14 09:05:00

RIP Ed Koch

2013-02-04 00:00:00

The former New York mayor's enthusiasm for his hometown and his fiscal conservatism were credited with lifting the city after its near-bankruptcy in the 1970s. A perennial civic combatant, he rallied and riled the city in and out of office with his tenacious style and irrepressible opinions.

2013-02-02 13:52:00