California
California and 11 other states weigh laws that bar chatting and texting behind the wheel.
Sept. 10, 2007
Music
Maurice “Muzzy” Marcellino, 84, multifaceted big band musician who was a guitarist, singer, whistler, composer and director.
June 21, 1997
Movies
Nicholas Marcellino, a former Hollywood makeup artist who was awarded two Purple Hearts during World War II, has died.
June 26, 1999
Books
Fred Marcellino, 61, illustrator and designer of covers for best-selling books by such authors as Tom Wolfe and Judith Rossner, died Thursday in New York City of colon cancer.
July 16, 2001
Television
Like “Star Trek,” I turn 50 this year.
Aug. 26, 2016
Beeson, Emory E., 63, of Palmdale, advanced liaison engineer for Lockheed Corp.
Oct. 24, 1991
From Delightful Hero to Symbol of Racism and Back, Little Black Sambo Has Been Reborn Many Times in the Last Century
Sept. 8, 1996
A distinguished poet, Donald Hall, and a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator, Emily Arnold McCully, team up to offer an evocative portrait of a New England village in Old Home Day.
Dec. 8, 1996
Archives
Kirk Putnam was a skinny kid from Burbank, sneaking across Topanga Beach with his surfboard under one arm, trying to slip unnoticed into the waves.
July 15, 1994
THE 20TH CENTURY CHILDREN’S BOOK TREASURY; Selected by Janet Schulman ; (Alfred A. Knopf: 308 pp., $40)
Dec. 6, 1998