What can I do to protect my garden during a heat wave?
Q. What can I do to make my yard and garden look better during this heat wave? My grass is turning brown, and everything looks wilted or dried up right…
Father says college student was killed by police in Pennsylvania after he went to wrong house
By HOLLY RAMER and KATE BRUMBACK A 22-year-old college student killed by Pennsylvania police responding to a possible burglary had just realized he was at the wrong home and was…
How a real-life Antarctic experiment inspired Chloe Benjamin’s ‘Under Story’
Six years ago, Chloe Benjamin, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Immortalists,” was hunting for inspiration for her next work of fiction. “The Immortalists” had been published to…
Lucky Charms and Trix go au naturel as General Mills ditches artificial colors
By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writer General Mills said Wednesday it has removed artificial colors from all its U.S. cereals, including Lucky Charms and Trix. The Minneapolis company has shifted…
California lawmakers oppose insurance fire claims limits
By Andrew Oxford and Michelle Ma | Bloomberg California lawmakers are lining up against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to rewrite how the state assigns financial responsibility for wildfires sparked by…
Blake Lively, who sought $8M, awarded $400K in legal fees in Baldoni case
Blake Lively was awarded a meager portion of the millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees that she demanded be paid by Justin Baldoni. Judge Lewis Liman on Wednesday ordered Baldoni…
Methadone clinics beat back deregulation with ‘Program, Not a Pill’
Part 3 of a four-part series That face; it’s a movie star’s face. OK, it’s probably a character actor’s face, deeply carved with the agony and angst of a lifetime…
Busy Philipps is ‘grateful’ to be alive after surgery to remove malignant brain tumor
Busy Philipps is “grateful” to be alive after undergoing a pair of intense surgical procedures to address a rare malignant brain tumor uncovered by her doctors. The 47-year-old actress told…
Brooklyn man who shot Labradoodle was aiming for man harassing his girlfriend: D.A.
A reckless gunman who shot and wounded a Brooklyn woman’s pet Labradoodle rushed to scene of the shooting, gun in his waistband, because someone was harassing his girlfriend, prosecutors said…
Daniel Caesar stuns with simplicity and stage presence at Honda Center
Daniel Caesar is a man of few words — you could probably count the number of times he addressed his Monday night audience on one hand, and never more than…