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Share + Dec 16, 2009 2:33 pm US/Pacific LOS ANGELES Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenburgen received the 2,395th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, two days before the release of her latest film, "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" Actresses Laura Dern and Diane Lane, actor Josh Brolin and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David were ...

Former KYW-TV anchor/reporter Diane Allen ran for a New Jersey state Senate seat.

Hidden behind the continuing controversy over a plan to deepen the Delaware River channel is the hope of those who work on the river that a deeper channel could make Delaware and its ports competitors in the shipping market.A Environmentalists maintain the project will harm the river and the wildlife that lives in it, but expected economic benefits ...

Gov. Edward Rendell, right, listens to Foxwoods representative Michael Thomas in September.

As long as the locals can remember, Zorro has protected them when they needed him to, often in the most dangerous of situations.

The Coolidge Corner Theater will award its seventh annual COOLIDGE AWARD to Academy Award-winning filmmaker JONATHAN DEMME , who will accept the honor during a two-day celebration on March 1 and 2, 2010.

While the economy hasn't yet recovered from the recession, according to Vice President Joseph Biden, things are looking up.

Actor Bradley Whitford stopped by the show today to talk about the Hopenhagen Movement -- an international movement to drive action on climate change at the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.

ANTONIO Banderas wants to ramp up production at his vineyard in the north of Spain and build a hotel there, the Hollywood film star said in an interview published on Sunday.

Standing a few feet away from actors Denzel Washington and Rosario Dawson is not how most Penn State students would expect to spend a cold fall morning in Centre County.

Billie Holiday is beaming in a 1956 photograph as she gazes at singer Billy Eckstine.

A decades-long dispute about whether to dig a deeper shipping channel in the Delaware River has centered on both environmental and economic concerns.

Malcolm is probably very happy to have his dad cheering him on in the crowds. Children - no matter how young or old- always like it when their parents show interest in what they do.

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Area environmental organizations are joining New Jersey and Delaware to try to stop plans to dredge and deepen the Delaware River to improve shipping.

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The word functionary has appeared in 19 Times articles over the past year, most recently in the article "In Philadelphia, Heroes With a Lunchpail" on October 31, 2009: Philadelphia sports fans are chronically misunderstood, especially by their New York counterparts.

Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell says a tentative agreement could end Philadelphia's transit strike by Saturday night.

President Obama and his administration were busy this past Friday. The president signed into legislation The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, which according to CNN.com , "authorizes a 5 percent annual increase in federal support over the next four years.

Jonathan Demme acquired the rights to the book Zeitoun , which he plans to make into an animated film.

The November edition of America's most influential food-culture monthly started hitting mailboxes this week.