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Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross conceded the mayoral race to Jim Lane Wednesday afternoon. Because the race was so close, within 500 votes at times, both candidates waited two weeks for the remaining early ballots to counted.

HUGH JACKMAN was so smitten with actress wife DEBORRA-LEE FURNESS, he wanted to propose to her after just three months of dating. The pair wed in 1996 and has two …

Birdie Mae Jackson NEW ALBANY – Birdie Mae Jackson, 72, died Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County. She was born Feb. 26, 1936, in New Albany to Levorgie High and Cora Lee Milsap.

In Saudi Arabia, the word for bread is “Aaysh,” which simply means ‘life.’ The staff of life is the stuff of life. It’s the other white meat. In much of the world, bread is what’s for dinner.

Here is a ‘warning’: This essay may be harmful to your intelligence. As a Raja, beware of how the Chinese had displaced Sultan Hussain Shah as the first and only Sultan of Singapura.

Miley Cyrus is not dead. Early Sunday, a video posted on the “Miley and Mandy Show” YouTube page falsely claimed she’d been killed by a drunken driver. Set to the…

The night leading up to his murder, Greenwich real estate developer Andrew Kissel sat slouched in a chair in his mansion looking disconnected as he watched television and listened to his wife say good-bye for the last time.

NORTON - A Norton company with an Army contract to produce armor for military vehicles will rent the police department’s firing range to test its prototypes.

Scott Walker was an only child and a nomadic one. His father, a geologist, travelled throughout America and the young Noel Scott Engel never had time to settle for long in one place. Born in Ohio in 1943, he lived in Texas for a time and then in California. ‘I never made friends that easily,’ he says, sounding not at all regretful. ‘I don’t mind being on my own because when you’re on your …

Boston officials gathered at City Hall yesterday to consider whether the city should join Governor Deval Patrick’s efforts to scale back the use of expensive police details at road construction sites in Massachusetts.