LOS ANGELES - Pimp C, who spun searing tales of Texas street life into a key role in the rise of Southern hip-hop, was found dead in an upscale hotel on Tuesday. He was 33.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to MTV to promote Earth Day with an 800-horsepower car that runs on renewable biodiesel fuel.

For more than 20 years, Ed and Cindy Steidler owned a successful restaurant equipment company in Bismarck, N.D. Several years ago, their son, Bryce, attended a school where he learned how to customize cars and other vehicles, including boats.

Want to add flair to your iPod? Or maybe you'd just like to pump up the sound quality? Check out these cool iPod gadgets the next time you want to pimp your beloved MP3 player.

A Mesa woman accused of prostituting her 13-year-old daughter to drug dealers was ordered held on a cash-only $1 million bond Wednesday.

Phoenix police say a pimp outraged by a man's efforts to find a 10-year-old girl for sex led to an investigation that ended with the man's arrest.

The Arizona attorney general's office says a jury in Maricopa County has ordered a man who ran a prostitution business to forfeit nearly $2 million in ill-gotten gains.

The first thing you notice about Beau Boeckmann is his smile. It never leaves his face. Why not? He has plenty to smile about. As a kid, his “toy box” was Los Angeles’s Galpin Ford where his father not only established the first Shelby Mustang dealership in California, but also forged his reputation for building and selling an assortment of wild-and-crazy customized vehicles, a reputation that stretches back to the early 1950s.

From the outside, Kevin Baer’s 2003 MINI Cooper S looks like a standard model. Pewter gray with a white top and racing stripes down its front, the only visible exterior upgrade is the chrome tire rims.

From the outside, Kevin Baer’s 2003 MINI Cooper S looks like a standard model. Pewter gray with a white top and racing stripes down its front, the only visible exterior upgrade is the chrome tire rims.

CHICAGO — The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues - six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.