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Hoe, hoe, hoe! Christmas trees are back, in new farm bill

Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30am

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Christmas tree-promotion program that pumped up conservative mockery and panicked the Obama administration is back for a second go-around, under a new farm bill.

Tree...

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Morse homer leads Mariners past Yankees

Updated: May 17, 2013 10:30am

NEW YORK — Michael Morse clubbed a solo homer to help lift the Seattle Mariners to a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees in the rubber match of a three-game set. Dustin Ackley and Brendan Ryan...

<p>Paramount Pictures</p><p>Zachary Quinto, back, and Zoe Saldana star in “Star Trek Into Darkness.”</p>

Movie Review: ‘Into Darkness’ is missing that ‘Star Trek’ sense of fun

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

The giddiness of “Star Trek” is gone, but “Star Trek Into D

arkness” maintains its love of character and pathos, the other great selling points of this re-booted sci-fi franchise. There’s...

The new ‘Star Trek,’ sans Shatner, is all about ‘ensemble’

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

ORLANDO, Fla. — Say this much for the new films in the long-running “Star Trek” franchise. They’re real “share the wealth” exercises. It’s not just about Kirk, Spock and Bones and a couple of red...

‘Star Trek’ role likely to launch Cumberbatch into the stars

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

DETROIT — Benedict Cumberbatch’s mission at the moment is to boldly go into a conversation by phone from London about “Star Trek Into Darkness.”

“They’ve let me off for a few days to have...

No studio would touch dishy Liberace biopic — then HBO saw the light

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

NEW YORK — When the news broke in 1987 that Liberace, the famously flamboyant pianist, was dead at age 67 with what his manager had claimed was anemia brought on by a watermelon diet but was, in...

Bill Hader to exit ‘Saturday Night Live’

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

Bill Hader to exit ‘Saturday Night Live’

Bill Hader has become the latest fan favorite to announce his departure from NBC’s long-lived “Saturday Night Live.”

Hader, best known for his...

TV broadcasters are in suspense over their upfront ad haul

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

LOS ANGELES — Can the return of Michael J. Fox, agent Jack Bauer and “Ironside” help vanquish the flesh-eating zombies that are threatening to take a bite out of television broadcasters’ fortunes...

ABC unveils fall schedule

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

NEW YORK — Move over, “Dancing With the Stars” — there are some new high-flying heroes in town.

On Tuesday, ABC entertainment chief Paul Lee announced a fall prime-time schedule that would...

Turner to offer online streams of TNT, TBS

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

Turner to offer online streams of TNT, TBS

Time Warner’s TNT and TBS are joining the parade of networks offering a live linear feed of their channels online for viewers on the go.

“...

Study: Female representation in films is at its lowest level in five years

Updated: May 16, 2013 10:30am

LOS ANGELES — There’s one mountain in Hollywood that even “The Hunger Games’” scrappy heroine Katniss Everdeen hasn’t been able to move: the number of roles for women.

Despite the success of...

Obituaries
<p>December 22, 1929 - May 12, 2013</p>

LeRoy Ludwig Nelson

Updated: May 18, 2013 1:30pm

LeRoy Ludwig Nelson, age 83 years old, a long time Aberdeen resident, passed away on May 12, 2013....

Saturday death notices

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

Deaths 5/17

Updated: May 17, 2013 10:30am

Eric Allan Shillinger

Updated: May 16, 2013 1:30pm

Judith Carol O’Brien

Updated: May 16, 2013 1:30pm
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