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Robert Stokes and his son Steven received the shock of a lifetime when their home in south Stockton suddenly collapsed underneath them Thursday afternoon.

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There are major and minor spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame, so proceed at your own risk. Did you ever think that Avengers: Endgame would end up being a sequel to [...]

Video captured by a police cruiser's dash camera April 12 shows two South Carolina state troopers clad in reflective vests as the remains of a burned-out car smolder just out of frame. Xena Rah'lah Norman, 1, died that night in the fire, and Imhotep Osiris Norman, her father and the reported driver of the car, is charged in her death.

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For 38 years the showcases inside Winchester Ltd. Jewelers glimmered with diamonds, sapphires, and rubies.  They supplied families with gifts for christenings, communions and anniversaries. In a way, the store’s owner Dick Malcolm considers himself a facilitator of these special moments.But Winchster’s jeweler and one of the town’s oldest businesses has had a good run, said Malcolm, who is 71. At the end of June, he will close his store to start a new chapter, [...]

On his weekly HBO show, Bill Maher often features a clever bit he calls “I don’t know it for a fact … I just know that it’s true.” I mention this because when it comes to the bank-robbery yarn “Stockholm,” I don’t know it for a fact … I just know it’s true … that writer-director Robert Budreau watched “Dog Day Afternoon” so often, so judiciously he convinced himself he could make a representative [...]

Deadheads and Parrotheads got nothin’ on the Juggalos, the devout, freaky followers of the hip-hop band, Insane Clown Posse. Now, they even have their own movie. Well, sorta. “Family,” which doubles as the single-word credo of the Juggalos, in truth belongs to the irrepressible Taylor Schilling, best known for having served seven years on the hit prison comedy, “Orange is the New Black.” Here, though, she’s of a different stripe, playing a workaholic [...]

From the start, the group Son Volt has explored rock ‘n’ roll’s roots in folk, country and blues music, so in that respect their latest album “Union” is right in line with their particularly sublime blend of Americana. But the latest album is also focused on preserving another cherished tradition of American music, which is exemplified by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan: commenting on topical matters and current events. The band's national tour [...]

 When playwright Paula Vogel was just 23, she read a play that stuck with her for four decades and became the inspiration for her 2017 Broadway debut, “Indecent.” In 1906, Sholem Asch, a Polish Jew, braved antisemitism and strict views about sexual relationships to write a play that portrayed some Jews as flawed and showed compassion for women who love each other. The play remained so controversial that it was banned during its Broadway run in 1923.“I had the [...]