"The Mummy Returns" in a very big way. Considerably more elaborate and spectacular in its special effects than was the film that brought Universal's musty corpse back to life two years ago, this ...

LITTLE ROCK — It’s easy to judge Richard Heene, the amateur inventor and storm-chaser whose son’s disappearance last week left millions of TV viewers thinking that the 6-year-old was careening through ...

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It's easy to judge Richard Heene, the amateur inventor and stormchaser whose son's disappearance on Thursday afternoon left millions of TV viewers thinking that the 6-year-old was careening through ...

Football enthusiasts of 1930, watching a game in (for instance) the Harvard Stadium may perhaps be distracted from the contest by the appearance, out of the sky, of a huge sausage-shaped bag moving ...