Police in China have seized more than 20,000 fake Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Coach bags, arrested 73 people, and closed down 37 sites there the fake bags were sold or created. The ring sold more than 960,000 bags, which were transported to the United States and the Middle East. The items seized were reportedly worth […]

Chris PAul recaps this weekend's NFL games including the Pats big win over the Colts.

By now, you already know the CBS sitcom “Mike and Molly” is a hit. The show focuses on a Chicago cop and his teacher girlfriend, both of whom are what we like to call plus-size. In the tradition of blue-collar hits like “Roseanne” and “King of Queens,” the show has it’s own diehard fans and […]

LL Cool J’s current day job is on TV as a series regular on the CBS show  “NCIS: Los Angeles.” But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t still have the urge to pic up a mic. After all, he does have one tattoo on his arm and in his prior life, he’s firmly established as one […]

Sorry, but it is. Taxes aren’t just an April game. There are a number of ways to decrease your tax bill for 2012, but these plans need to be put into action before year-end, and with Thanksgiving early this year, it’s easy for people to get caught up in the holiday hoopla and miss the […]

Although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white men like Roy Rogers and Billy the Kid, one in four of America’s cowboys were African-American. Many of the slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries were familiar with cattle herding from their homelands of West Africa. This brings historians the question of the […]

The son of Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant, who himself pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the scandal centered on the disgraced financier, has committed suicide in central Ohio, authorities said. Jeremy Friehling, 23, was found dead at his apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday in Columbus, where he was a second-year student at Ohio […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators' angry criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over her initial account of the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya smacks of sexism and racism, a dozen female members of the House said Friday. In unusually personal terms, the Democratic women lashed out at Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham who […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — To hear some Republicans tell it, the Grand Old Party needs to get with the times. Some of the early prescriptions offered by officials and operatives to rebuild after devastating elections: retool the party message to appeal to Latinos, women and working-class people; upgrade antiquated get-out-the-vote systems with the latest technology. Teach […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Their close ties to the military community giving them unusual access to top generals, Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley even visited the White House on separate and apparently unrelated occasions before a sex scandal brought down former CIA Director David Petraeus. Neither woman met with President Barack Obama during their visits, a […]

HAVANA (AP) — Adela Hernandez, a biologically male Cuban who has lived as a female since childhood, served two years in prison in the 1980s for "dangerousness" after her own family denounced her sexuality. This month she made history by becoming the first known transgender person to hold public office in Cuba, winning election as […]

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A parade float filled with wounded veterans that was struck by a freight train had crossed onto the railroad tracks after warning signals were going off, investigators said Saturday. Four veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were killed and 16 more people were injured when the train crashed into the flatbed truck […]