FLORENCE, Ariz. - An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 has become the first person to be executed in the state after a nearly eight-year hiatus in its use of the death penalty ...

Clarence Avant, the influential music industry veteran and record producer known as “the Black Godfather,” was saluted Monday as a savvy dealmaker whose wisdom and compassion influenced generations of ...

"Sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying," sings Bruce Springsteen, in "Backstreets." That’s the way it felt over the weekend — except it wasn’t the city, it was the world — as ...

Tributes have been paid to Clarence Gilyard, an actor familiar to millions for his roles in Die Hard, Matlock and Walker and Texas Ranger, who has died at the age of 66. Gilyard went on to become a ...