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With thoughtful policies in place, the controversial development can light a spark in Vancouver’s Chinatown.

Actor Michael K. Williams died in September of a drug overdose at age 54. He was in the process of writing his memoir Scenes from my Life.

I shame myself all the time, so Im cool with it - Aldi fan Amy Fobbs

KOKOMO, IN (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Battle Creek Bombers did not quit in Thursday night's 10-6 victory. The Bombers...

To date, Lindsay Guion's “Therapy” has garnered 63 awards – and counting – at many of the world’s best and most respected film festivals.

Eight remarkable tales of the Empress of Blues Scotland’s national poet Jackie Kay made an unlikely friend when she was 12 years old. But this wasn’t someone she sat with at school. In fact, it was a woman she had never met – the legendary blues singer Bessie Smith. Jackie’s first introduction to Bessie came in the form of a record she was gifted by her father. She fell in love with the stories Bessie told through her songs. In Radio 4s Bessie Smith, it’s Jackie’s turn to do the sto...

What was it about Bessie Smith that made such an impression on you? I think she’s simply the best. I think all the blues singers at the time – Clara Smith, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters – would have acknowledged that she was the queen of the blues; her tempo, her timing, her understanding of the blues. She wrote a lot of her own blues. Ma Rainey taught her a lot of the ropes, but Bessie was technically, and in every which way, better than any of her contemporaries. And I think Bessie’s ...

there are currently three unaccounted for. however officials believe they may have been traveling. the f-18 suffered what is called catastrophic mek ck mechanical malfunction. two navy pilots. student and instructor dumped fuel and ejected just before the jet careened into the apartment complex. we have team coverage on the dramatic jet crash tonight. >> we begin at the scene right now, shamari stone is in virginia beach now with more on what happened down there today. >> reporter: peo...