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(Associated Press) - At least two heavily armed attackers opened fire on a banquet at a social services center for the disabled Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault that looked "as if they were on a mission," authorities said ...

Al Molinaro, the loveable character actor with the hangdog face who was known to millions of TV viewers for playing Murray the cop on "The Odd Couple" and malt shop owner Al Delvecchio on "Happy Days," died Friday at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, his son Michael Molinaro said ...

The actor who played Jimmy Olsen on the 1950's TV show "The Adventures of Superman" has died. Jack Larson passed away Sunday at his home in Brentwood, California.  He was 87. Larson played the young reporter at "The Daily Planet" and was a sidekick to Clark Kent...

"Black Mass", a movie about South Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang debuts in theaters nationwide on Friday, including here on the Southcoast. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell knows all about the Bulger story...

Hewlett-Packard says its upcoming spinoff of its technology divisions focused on software, consulting and data analysis will eliminate up to 30,000 jobs. The cuts announced Tuesday will be within the newly formed Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is splitting from the Palo Alto, California, company's personal computer and printing operation...

24/7 News Source _ The owner of a Santa Monica, California restaurant is being punished for serving endangered whale meat to customers. A federal judge has decided The Hump owner Brian Vidor and the restaurant's parent company will jointly pay a 27-thousand dollar fine and be sentenced to probation...

A drug-resistant intestinal illness is spreading across the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control said today that 243 cases have turned up between May and February, with the biggest clusters in California, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania...

A new law signed by Democratic California  this week  will let family members ask a judge to temporarily take guns and other firearms from a relative if they appear to pose a threat. That provision of the law is a first in the country, while another, which lets law enforcement go directly to a judge to get guns from people they believe to be a danger, is already legal in Connecticut, Indiana and T

Earned sick time is one of the most talked about ballot questions this fall.

The chairman of a House panel is asking Labor Secretary Thomas Perez to turn over to Congress documents and information he alleges will show ``a pattern of wasteful spending and mismanagement'' at the Labor Department. GOP Rep. Darrell E...