Michael Jones

Why not allow the U.S. senator from Illinois who is resigning to name his own successor? Change of Subject reader Lois Sorkin posted this question in relation to all the speculative fuss these days about whom Gov. Rod Blagojevich will appoint to finish...

You might have felt transported back in time Saturday night if you were anywhere near the Connecticut Convention Center. More than 300 people gathered for HARC's 20th annual auction event — Roaring Twenty — and many guests dressed the part,...

Where not to live Re “Driven by wind, catastrophe sweeps across three counties,” Nov. 16 There is an old folk song with the refrain, "When will they ever learn?" The tragedy and devastation of the last week is another case of living where...

Rudy Carpenter rallied Arizona State with a pair of second-half touchdowns to Michael Jones, and the Sun Devils kept their slim bowl hopes alive. Despite lame-duck coach Tyrone Willingham pulling out all the stops, the Huskies remained the only FBS team...

Illinois' largest psychiatric hospital left sexual predators unguarded despite allegations that at least 10 mentally disabled children were assaulted during the last three years. The youngest victim was an 8-year-old state ward admitted for evaluation...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Now we know why Georgia packed up its players and its bulldog mascot, Uga VII, who left an air-conditioned Dawg house back in Athens, to venture out on its longest regular-season trip since 1960. It was a chance to play the Pacific 10...

A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones - aka...

— A Mathews pot grower's loss turned into local middle schoolers' gain this month, when the county sheriff's office donated a confiscated hydroponic growing system to the school's new greenhouse. The greenhouse in a previously empty courtyard at...

Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 ARROWHEAD LEAGUE La Verne Lutheran 42, Boys Republic 28 Keith Shamburger had 10 points, six rebounds and four steals for La Verne Lutheran (14-0, 3-0). DELPHIC LEAGUE Pasadena Marshall 59, Paraclete 38 Dorian Hampton led...

Like a number of skid row's poor and "unbanked," Robert Baker trusted his cash and future dreams to a half-ton safe in downtown's bustling Union Rescue Mission. Baker, 36, had landed at the Christian mission at 5th and San Pedro streets ready to work,...

House Judiciary Committee members grilled supporters and opponents of a high-profile witness intimidation bill yesterday on a provision that would let witnesses make statements, in certain circumstances, without appearing in court. The scrutiny could...

As his father carried out clandestine operations in Iraq, 6-year-old Alex Murphy performed a secret mission of his own in the living room of the family's Ft. Stewart apartment. Late at night, when he and his three brothers were supposed to be asleep,...