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Published: Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 11:00 p.m. It had been about 13 years since Tommy Pinkard last saw the young man who interrupted his lunch at a Gadsden pizzeria, but Pinkard still recognized him as a former student in a state program that helps keep at-risk youth out of juvenile detention.

The hottest ticket at this year's Manchester International Festival isn't Kraftwerk's groundbreaking collaboration with composer Steve Reich, nor is it Damon Albarn and Adam Curtis' spooky exploration of the American dream.

A fire in a block of flats left six people dead, including three children, emergency services said last night.

TOPICS Progressive Politics Action In case you haven't heard, the Million Can March is a counter protest to the teabagging protest redux scheduled for the Fourth of July.

July 2, 10:19 PM Comment RSS Oakland Public Conservatory of Music 1616 Franklin Street, Oakland $12 for concert The Oakland-based jazz poetry ensemble UpSurge! is performing Friday evening, July 3, at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music in honor of an Annual Frederick Douglass Day/Alternative Fourth of July Celebration.

As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends.

An east London mother faces a long prison sentence after admitting killing her 21-month-old son by doping him to make him sleep.

The nation heads into the Independence Day holiday weekend amid the longest and steepest decline in driving since the invention of the automobile.

If Tara Schneider can steal a few minutes during her lunch break, she'll rush to her Steilacoom home and fire up her webcam.

Listening to Regina Spektor is like living in the Pink Batts ad - you know, the one where everyone walks around with a fluffy pink monster hugging them all day? Her music is comforting.

A decades-old program that helps troubled Alabama youth stay out of juvenile detention has been spared for now, but advocates and directors say its financial woes are far from over.

The number of juveniles detained each day at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center dropped 33 percent over the past three years, according to state courts.

Government experts say the maximum dose listed for Tylenol and dozens of other painkillers should be reduced to help curb deadly overdoses.

Police are sounding the alarm this week over an apparent rise in participation in the sex trade among North Vancouver teens, many of whom are advertising on Craigslist.

Marilyn Manson was jealous of a male model Lady Gaga cavorted with in a music video.

Executions in Missouri are on hold - again. Any delay is to be applauded. The death penalty is expensive and impossible to mete out fairly.

After repudiating negotiations on dismantling its plutonium-based nuclear program, North Korea admitted this month to having an even more worrying way to make bombs.

Madison County Judge Thomas Newman Jr. officially will take over leadership of the county's Drug Court, a position left without a permanent administrator since Judge David Hopper died Feb.

Bay Area transportation planners urge the public to draw up alternative commute plans in case BART workers strike in the coming weeks.

A preliminary agreement has been reached in a federal lawsuit that claims youth were abused at a south Mississippi juvenile detention center and forced to live in squalid conditions.