Sports
Cincinnati reliever Aroldis Chapman threw the 62 fastest pitches in the big leagues this season, according to Major League Baseball’s new Statcast computer system.
Oct. 4, 2015
Entertainment & Arts
Henry Cordier, a fine arts dealer, restoration expert and appraiser, has died at the age of 89.
June 15, 2001
Dodgers
It might not always have been the smoothest of rides, but it offered the desired finish: the National League West title.
Sept. 24, 2014
Politics
Two former Vietnam prisoners of war who appear in ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John F.
Sept. 4, 2004
Food
It may be hard to imagine a dust-covered, chaps-bedecked cowpoke ridin’ in off the range, hopping down from his steed and asking for a Sauvignon Blanc.
May 25, 1989
California
Before he was fired, a Glendale maintenance superintendent stole city property, forced workers to do his personal chores and allowed a supervisor to “terrorize” her employees, a city official asserted at a hearing for the superintendent.
Nov. 29, 1990
World & Nation
President Kennedy was prepared to make a concession to Moscow on U.S. missiles in Turkey to avoid war during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and was taken by surprise when the concession proved unnecessary, it was reported today.
Aug. 28, 1987
After a 10-month hearing--the longest in Glendale history--three civil service commissioners ruled last week that city officials were justified in firing a top maintenance superintendent accused of using city workers to do his personal chores.
Aug. 15, 1991
The remaining suspect in a bloody bank robbery near the Princeton University campus was captured while eating at a restaurant in New York City, and a gym bag containing a large amount of cash was later recovered, the FBI said Wednesday.
Nov. 20, 1997
PARIS--French anti-terrorist investigators are hunting for a man who stabbed a soldier in the throat at a busy Paris shopping and transport center.
May 26, 2013