Roy Rogers

Dennis Hopper's Not-So-Easy Ride

It was a motorcycle that lifted a young actor-director with a reputation for trouble to movie stardom back in 1969. And despite many ups and downs since then, Dennis Hopper is still a name to be reckoned with. Rita Braver pays...

College tour has its price: $11.42

This fall, my wife and I are busy trying to find the right college for our youngest son, the high school senior, who does not seem quite as engaged in the process as we are. Like his older brother and sister before him, the boy...

Poll, Joe Williams agree: Connery is best James Bond

Actor Sean Connery (Adam Nadel/AP) Like most guys of the baby boom generation, I vote for the Sean Connery movies when it comes to all things James Bond. As a tot in the Connery era, I thought he was the coolest grown-up...

Will the Lakers make it 8-0?

Next up, Deeeeeeetroooit baaaaaasketbaaaaall. Chauncey Billups was recently traded from the Pistons to the Nuggets for Allen Iverson and spare parts. His mother practically had to beg Georgetown coach John Thompson to take a...

Cordell, sisters inducted into Hall of Fame

Dorothea (Dottie Tenney) Cordell, formerly of Massachusetts, and now residing in Waimea, was recently honored when she, along with her sisters, Sylvia and Evelyn, known as The Tenney Sisters, were inducted Sept. 29. into the...

Music of the heart

By Val Willingham CNN Medical Producer l love my iPod. From Etta James to Roy Rogers, my playlist is pretty diverse. Each song is part of who I am. And I guess I have a lot of parts, because I’ve loaded over 4,000 songs into...

Man charged in stabbing incident

Man charged in stabbing incident Kim Sloan Murray County sheriff’s deputies have charged a Chatsworth man with aggravated assault, armed robbery and burglary for allegedly stabbing a man in the neck with a pocket knife on Oct....

WORLD WARNER II

IT was the top-grossing film of 1943 and stars a future president and a future US senator working under the director of "Casablanca." Yet "This Is the Army," a Technicolor World War II musical based on a famous fund-raising...

Sacramento Bee: Blues, blues … and more blues

Blues fans have a chance to share a little heaven this Friday. Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and Roy Rogers with the Delta Rhythm Kings … Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers...

Spirit of Children's endures

In 1884, the Episcopal Diocese opened a hospital to provide free care to poor children. So how, over 125 years, did it grow into a world-class research and medical institution that treats children from around the world?

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