Right-hander John Smoltz pitched from the mound in a Red Sox uniform for the first time Wednesday, testing his surgically repaired shoulder by throwing 40 pitches in the bullpen. ...more

March 26, 2009

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. ...more

November 20, 2008

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. That's when the hundreds of teenage girls at the screening I attended began shrieking. We're talking Beatles-at-Shea Stadium sort of shrieking. ...more

November 20, 2008

School, county and city officials rushed to assure their employees that they will be able to cover payroll checks despite a freeze on a state-run investment pool fund. ...more

January 4, 2008

Mayor David Pugh, Jr. has been tapped by his fellow council members to serve another term with the mostly ceremonial title before his name. ...more

December 4, 2007

THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE *** Danish director Susanne Bier brings a stripped-down sensibility to 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' which could have been an overwrought story of loss and redemption but in Bier's hands has powerful revelations. ...more

October 19, 2007

For Whitney Hess, a 25-year-old software designer in New York, the tension that ultimately ended her recent relationships was all right there, in the digits on her pay stub. ...more

September 30, 2007