Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect. Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief. ...more

January 8, 2009

"Scarpetta" by Patricia Cornwell (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $28) ...more

December 14, 2008

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Hostess Twinkies are becoming the latest product remade and repackaged into 100-calorie snack packs, a product some analysts say could do well given that more people are packing their own lunches in the slumping economy. ...more

November 9, 2008

The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., who in his 27 years as dean of the National Cathedral in Washington raised his sonorous voice against McCarthyism, segregation, poverty and the Vietnam War while presiding over construction of the cathedral's majestic Gloria in Excelsis Tower, died Oct. 3 at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was 93. ...more

October 14, 2008

Willie Hayes was a Vietnam veteran who proudly served his country, won several medals and earned himself a plot at a veterans cemetery upon his death two weeks ago. ...more

October 20, 2007

TAMPA – Uno de los hombres en uniforme hospitalario en la sala de médicos del hospital Tampa General no era para nada un doctor, sino un impostor, indicó la policía de Tampa. ...more

October 12, 2007