World & Nation
In a town that calls itself the Hollywood of Mississippi, people say for years they’ve been hearing tales of dirty politics worthy of a movie script, like campaigns buying votes with cash or beer.
Dec. 8, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
It’s a scene straight out of “The Player,” director Robert Altman’s blistering satire on Hollywood.
Oct. 8, 1992
Dominic Tang Yiming, 87, archbishop of Canton who was imprisoned in China for 22 years.
July 6, 1995
Archives
A man whose son was kicked off the football team critically injures the athletic director and tries to kill himself, authorities say.
April 8, 2005
California
A man who police believed was stabbed by a stranger as he visited his wife, a housesitter for a rock musician in Encino, actually was attacked by her lover, Los Angeles police said Tuesday.
Sept. 1, 2004
High School Sports
Though Gary Joe Kinne invigorated Canton High’s football team, he was not without his critics.
April 9, 2005
An ex-classmate of a murder suspect will be charged in connection with a woman’s death.
June 25, 2007
In 1985, producer Wendy Finerman went to Warner Bros. to pitch a movie based on the novel “Forrest Gump.”
Aug. 10, 1994
The first person known to have survived a trip down Niagara Falls without any safety devices will be charged with illegally performing a stunt, park police said.
Oct. 22, 2003
In the entire history of Hollywood, there has probably never been a movie that was such a total creative failure--so badly conceived, written, cast and directed--that it didn’t have at least one rabid fan.
Oct. 13, 1991