Beyonce reigns as forest queen in animated 'Epic'

Beyonce loved voicing Queen Tara in the new children's movie "Epic" — at least once she stopped crying. Queen B has gone from pop royalty to screen royalty, becoming the forest queen in an animated movie that she hopes her 15-month-old daughter Blue Ivy will be proud of one day. ...

• Updated: 10:29 a.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Jackson's life recounted in opening of civil trial

Michael Jackson's struggle against drug addiction was on display Monday during opening statements in his mother's wrongful death case against concert promoter AEG Live. Competing portraits of Jackson emerged during the first hours of the trial, with Katherine Jackson's attorney acknowledging the pop star's drug problems while also trying to ...

• Updated: 11:20 p.m. Monday, April 29, 2013

UCLA to test drugs for autism in weeks not years

In an effort to find a treatment for autism, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are leading a $9 million experiment that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs within weeks rather than years. It's part of a push by the National Institutes of Health to fast-track the ...

• Updated: 6:29 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2013

Jason Segel working on middle-grade book series

Jason Segel is becoming an author. The star of the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Freaks and Geeks" has a deal with Random House Children's Books for a middle-grade series set in a haunted town. The series is called "Nightmares!" and will debut in the fall of ...

• Updated: 10:41 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Award-winning children's author Konigsburg dies

E.L. Konigsburg, an author who twice won one of the top honors for children's literature, has died. She was 83. Her son Paul Konigsburg says the longtime Florida resident died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va., where she'd been living for the past few years with another son. ...

• Updated: 11:56 p.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013

Award-winning children's author Konigsburg dies

E.L. Konigsburg, an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books, has died. She was 83. Her son Paul Konigsburg says the author died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. She had suffered a stroke a week before she died. She won the John Newbery Medal in 1997 for ...

• Updated: 10:12 p.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013

Area fighters boxing to benefit vets

• 11:07 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Traveling Wall leaves WSU

• 8:12 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012

International Women's Day 2012

Women mark International Women's Day with events in the United States and around the world.

• 6:09 p.m. Thursday, March 8, 2012

First lady celebrates 'Let's Move' with kids

First lady Michelle Obama dances with Iowa school kids while celebrating the second anniversary of the "Let's Move" campaign.

• 7:09 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012