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City of Santa Clarita gets AAA credit rating

2012-09-07 14:53:32

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'Lola Versus' team turns their romantic baggage into films

2012-06-07 16:39:31

<![CDATA['Lola Versus' team turns their romantic baggage into films]]>

Jacob E. Goldman dies at 90; creator of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center

2011-12-25 00:00:00

Jacob E. Goldman, the former Xerox chief scientist who created the company's famed Palo Alto Research Center, whose scientists and engineers invented the modern personal computer in the 1970s and developed an array of other pioneering computing...

J. Lynn Helms dies at 86; FAA chief fired striking air controllers

2011-12-20 00:00:00

J. Lynn Helms, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration who carried out President Reagan's order to fire more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers and oversaw efforts to keep airlines flying during the crisis, has died. He was 86. He...

Sundance 2012: Melanie Lynskey looking for love in 'Hello'

2012-01-20 04:36:28

St. Louis restaurant drops Albert Pujols' name, but statue stays

2012-02-02 16:35:52

Peter Falk dies at 83; actor found acclaim as 'Columbo'

2011-06-24 14:44:00

Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83. Falk,...

Nobel winner dies before receiving prize

2011-10-03 22:02:00

Dr. Ralph M. Steinman was a creative and dogged researcher who spent years convincing a doubting scientific community that he had found cells that were key to the working of the immune system. Diagnosed in 2007 with pancreatic cancer, which usually kills...

Recording Academy, which awards Grammys, sells former headquarters

2011-10-02 16:34:27

Stocks: How often does a 'correction' become a bear market?

2011-08-04 21:35:53

Missouri's bloody Civil War battles

2011-04-10 00:00:00

"Split state" used to sound simple to me, as though it were 50-50, North versus South, nice tidy halves. But Missouri wasn't just split in the Civil War. It was shattered. Rifts ran through every level of society all over the state — through...

Isolated and angry amid Fukushima nuclear crisis

2011-03-17 00:00:00

An awful realization is setting in for those trapped in the vicinity of the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex: People are afraid to help them. Residents describe spooky scenes of municipal cars driving down near-empty streets telling people to stay...

Goman+York has named Dusty McMahan, senior vice president, Creative Development Officer. He lives in Westport, Conn.

2013-05-24 08:48:00

She volunteered at the Pequot Library Book Sale each year until she was 97 and two days a week at Norwalk Hospital until she was 96. Her first husband, Briggs Cunningham, won the America's Cup in 1958 (she was a member of the support team) and raced at Le Mans in the 1950s.

2013-05-11 17:30:28

Sherwood Island State Park in Westport got its first pavilion in 1964, 50 years after the first land was acquired there. The days of open air, all wood construction for pavilions had given way to the concrete, steel and glass of the time.

2013-05-02 09:51:33