After years of feeling slighted, Arizona's biggest annual country music event promises to be big again. April's Country Thunder USA festival in Florence is getting a swift kick in the Wranglers under new owners Brian Andrews and Troy Vollhoffer. The ...

Kyle Austin scored 24 points to lead UC Riverside past Cal Poly 91-57 Friday. Austin, a transfer from Southern California, went 9-of-18 from the floor as the Highlanders (8-4, 1-0 Big West) outscored the Mustangs 49-19 in the second half. Cal Poly ...

Irene (Lizotte) Binette Hurley, 89, of Fall River, died on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. She was the widow of Leon “Bill” Binette and William Hurley. A summer resident of Westport for many years, she was a maid in a Newport mansion in her youth ...

It can be an e-mail from the widow of a recently deceased Nigerian prince asking for your help in disposing of $5 million. It can be a message from your bank stating that it needs some personal information so that it can update your account. Or it ...

Hoping to prevent convicts from being shut out of the work force, some major U.S. cities are eliminating questions from their job applications that ask whether prospective employees have ever been convicted of a crime. Most of the cities still ...

SEATTLE — More than 30,000 people have been told to leave their flood-endangered homes in Western Washington as rain and high winds lashed much of Washington state, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides and high water that could reach record ...