An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol in a fatal January crash.
Roger Avary of Ojai, California, was arraigned Friday in a court in Ventura.
Authorities say Avary's car hit a telephone pole in Ojai on Jan. 13. The crash injured his wife and killed …
My 9-year-old daughter had surgery for a tumor that thankfullyturned out benign. Since then, I've been hearing of an alarmingnumber of people, young and old, in my neighborhood who do havecancer.
Could this phenomenon be connected with industrial firms aroundhere? WORRIED
A. Probably not, said Dr. Katherine Mallin, an epidemiolgist forthe Illinois Cancer Council, Suite 700, 36 S. Wabash, Chicago 60603.But some types of cancer are more common where you live than expectedwhen compared with other areas of Chicago, Illinois and the nation.
A recent Cancer Council study found four varieties - stomach,prostate …
LOS ANGELES - A bid by Britney Spears for shared custody of her two young sons was put on hold Friday by a court commissioner, a lawyer for Kevin Federline said. An afternoon hearing included extensive testimony and covered a number of issues in the high-profile case, lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan said.
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French officials were on guard Wednesday after an al-Qaida affiliate threatened vengeance for President Nicolas Sarkozy's criticism of the face-covering veils worn by some Muslim women.
France is maintaining "very great vigilance" toward actions and statements by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or North Africa, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said in a briefing.
"French authorities reaffirm their determination to fight terrorism," he added.
The Algeria-based group issued a statement on Islamic Web sites vowing to "seek vengeance against France" over Sarkozy's comments about face-covering Muslim …
While he always has been a dependable player, Humphrey never really lived up to the early promise. Suddenly this season, the 6-3 senior is turning heads again.
Humphrey scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Fenwick in a 61-54 upset Friday of No. 10 Mount Carmel in Oak Park.
He was 6-for-8 from the field and made two three-pointers.
''Right now I'm just about winning,'' Humphrey said. ''Whatever it takes, whether it's passing the ball or defending or scoring. And today it took points to …
A number of years ago when I was in film school, one of my classmates made a brilliant short film about an artist who made strange sounds by taking children's musical electronics (little keyboards and speak-and-spells), cracking open their plastic cases, pushing their buttons, AND licking his fingers then touching the circuits boards as he played with them. Strange noises not intended came out of tiny speakers to create wonderful new soundscapes. You see, his wet fingers would bridge the circuits to create new paths for the power to run through, thus altering the behaviour of whatever device he chose to modify in this way. This was years ago, long before I heard about others doing similar …
An international advisory panel said Tuesday that Sri Lanka's government lacks the will to properly investigate alleged human rights abuses committed during a surge in fighting between the military and Tamil rebels in the island's north.
The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons, or IIGEP, in their final public statement, said their "critiques and suggestions" had been "largely disregarded." The panel announced last month that it would resign because of frustration over the investigation of rights abuses.
There has been growing pressure from international rights groups to establish a U.N. mission to monitor abuses. The …
