George Fox

Chinese students are enrolling in U.S. universities in record numbers, encouraged by aggressive recruiting combined with China's booming economy and growing middle class. Their enrollment grew by 8 percent in the fall of 2006 and by 20 percent last...

County Executive John R. Leopold will be Grand Marshall of the 13th annual Pasadena Caring and Sharing Parade at 2 p.m. today. The parade, sponsored by the Pasadena Business Association, will feature several community groups that work to provide hot...

TODAY Boat race The 2008 Melees 24 North American Championship will be held today through Nov. 2 at the Eastport Yacht Club in Annapolis. As many as 60 crews are expected to compete in the sailboat races. 410-263-0415. Pumpkin fun St. Marten's Lutheran...

ChadMichael Morrisette thought it would be fun to throw a little politics into his Halloween decorating this year since the holiday comes only four days before the presidential election. For weeks the life-size mannequin of Republican vice presidential...

Former President Bill Clinton said yesterday he would head back to the campaign trail for Barack Obama in Florida once the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which he's not known to observe, were over. "I intend to go to Florida, to Ohio, to...

It is June and peonies and roses have replaced forsythia and rhododendrons. The garden springs eternal. So does history. In Roslyn, the garden of poet-editor William Cullen Bryant is being restored to the glory it once was. At Old Bethpage Village...

To publicly proclaim the new Quaker religion on western Long Island was to risk arrest and banishment. To let a Quaker spend the night in your home could lead to a heavy fine. The early years of Quakerism on Long Island were a struggle against...

Part of the thrill of coming to Monteverde, the site of this country's oldest and best-known nature reserve, is seeing the glorious views of the Gulf of Nicoya and the quick succession of ecosystems you encounter on the rough and rocky road that leads...

When Hairspray launches its national tour at the Mechanic Theatre on Tuesday, one cast member will be making his professional debut in his former home state. And no one is more surprised than that actor himself - Bryan West. A 1995 graduate of the...

When Joyce VerHoef and her husband moved to Maryland from California two years ago, they ended up living in Pasadena completely by accident. "When we first moved here, we had three days to find a place to live," VerHoef said. "And you know how fate...