When discussing his formative heroes, Hollywood actor Sean Penn highlighted one performer as setting a creative bar he felt ...

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back -- not just from Marathon ...

Trapped in domestic abuse, poverty and drug use as a teen, award-winning poet ArunDitha found healing through words. Now, ...

We could see the pain on their faces when injured players went to the plate This team as a whole deserved a better fate' ...

The president's poet woke up a superstar on Thursday, after a powerful reading at the U.S. inauguration catapulted ...

In this poem, Withers delivers a resonant message on what it means to stand with oppressed people of the world.

The CEO of Palm Springs-based Silvercrest Advertising was released from custody on $2 million bail Thursday, jail records show. The release came a day after William Frank Rodriguez pleaded not guilty ...

November stands as a quiet bridge between autumn’s golden farewell and winter’s silver silence. It is a month of reflection, ...

TORONTO - It is the most sartorially-coded celebration in Major League Baseball. And the Toronto Blue Jays just can't quit the home run jacket. Wonder exactly how and why the Blue Jays place a navy ...

Two people were killed and two others were critically hurt when a driver plowed into the group in Santa Monica on Friday, police said. The crash occurred around 9:15 p.m. in the 1300 block of Wilshire ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Santa Monica police are searching for a hit-run driver who plowed onto a busy Wilshire Boulevard sidewalk Friday ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...