Jimmy Knepper

Nettie Williams Basham, 74, of Maceo died Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009, in Butler County. Read More

Not too many movies opening this week — but there's plenty to bring home. Read More

Before J'ouvert was over Wednesday morning, the enticing aromas of Crucian cuisine had already begun to waft through Frederiksted's Buddhoe Park. By noon, the feeding frenzy and celebration of local culture that was the Crucian Christmas Festival's Food, Arts and Craft Fair was under way in earnest, with hundreds of people sampling the local cuisine at booths set up on the streets surrounding the park and Customs House. Read More

In his first year in office, President Obama tackled an impressive array of foreign policy challenges, adapting a response focusing more on cooperation than confrontation, say foreign affairs specialists. Read More

Gabriel Iglesias has gotten big in comedy partly by being big - and fluffy. Read More

Among the 6,000-plus people gathering in Melbourne, Australia, were 15 educators — ages 3 to 63 — from the School of Metaphysics in the U.S. Their presence at the 2009 Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR) Dec. 3-9 brought an expanded view and neutral ground to participants representing 228 faiths from over 70 countries. Read More

After a year of disastrous policies, skyrocketing unemployment numbers , and tripling of the national deficit, the Far Left has finally realized that Obama sucks as a leader. Read More

We'll begin this morning's column on sports in 2009 with a disclaimer. Read More