BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The gay cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain" positioned itself as a key Oscar competitor Tuesday, roping in seven Golden Globe nominations, including best dramatic picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and director Ang Lee.

January 17, 2005

December 13, 2004

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Golden Globes set up an Academy Awards rematch between Hilary Swank and Annette Bening, while Jamie Foxx firmed up his Oscar front-runner status.

May 14, 2004

BOSTON - Boston officials, livid about a publicity campaign that had disrupted the city by stirring fears of terrorism, vowed to prosecute those responsible and seek restitution for the $500,000 cost of the response.

SAN FRANCISCO - Roger Clemens is going to finish up in Boston. Or, maybe not. But the Red Sox do appear to have an edge in the person of Al Nipper, Clemens’ former teammate, longtime friend and, most recently, the bullpen coach and acting pitching coach while Dave Wallace awaits hip replacement surgery.

BOSTON - Farm Aid, the long-running benefit concert, will be held this year in New England for the first time.

A few things to consider for those who plan to vote for Mitt Romney concerning his service to his country:

Former Suns coach Danny Ainge is leaning toward taking a front-office job with the Boston Celtics, and an announcement could come any day, a source told the Tribune on Wednesday night.

We just celebrated 225 years of the ratification of the US Constitution. This written document contains many wise provisions such as: 1. The Bill of Rights’ guarantee of freedom of speech, press and religion. 2. Equality of all men and women before the law. 3. The principle of popular sovereignty, where the PEOPLE are the source of government, not the other way around. 4. The federal system, with a division of powers between the nation as a whole and the states. 5. The Separation of Powers into three separate branches of government.

BOSTON - The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and is accused of kidnapping his young daughter says he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with the girl while evading authorities, but he still isn't talking about his life before 1993.

LOS ANGELES - Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women," has died. She was 81.

By late Wednesday night, Manny Ramirez was dead to Boston.

BOSTON - The federal government will install a new quarantine station at Logan International Airport to evaluate travelers who may pose a health threat to the region, officials said.

The United States Army is proud that it has met its goals in the first month of its five-year recruiting plan, but the remaining 59-month effort to find 65,000 new soldiers might not be going as well as Army officials would like the public to believe.

NEW YORK - Pat Riley can't understand why Shaquille O'Neal keeps talking about the Miami Heat.

Beware of online gossipmongers and of journalists who lunge too avidly at the red meat they toss into the cage.

BOSTON  - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed Tuesday it was sending two homicide detectives to Boston to interview a mysterious father accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a visit in Boston.

Here’s your first decent Shawn Marion rumor of the summer: The Boston Globe quotes an unnamed NBA executive seeing the Suns and Celtics (general manager Danny Ainge loves The Matrix, whom he coached in Phoenix) as ripe partners.

Those of us who moved to Arizona many years ago from points east — a time before the Internet or, apparently, history and travel books were easily available at local libraries — remember how our relatives wondered aloud about our decisions to move here.

The death of the late baseball legend Ted Williams' only son has once again cast a spotlight on a Scottsdale-based cryonics facility, spurring debate about whether John Henry Williams has been shipped to the lab to be frozen alongside his father.

The death of the late baseball legend Ted Williams' only son has once again cast a spotlight on a Scottsdale-based cryonics facility, spurring debate about whether John Henry Williams has been shipped to the lab to be frozen alongside his father.

The last time Valley Youth Theatre presented “The Wiz” — a hip hop take on L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s story — Emma Stone, Jordin Sparks, Max Crumm and Chelsea Kane were just local kids performing in a fun musical. That was 2002.