Larry Cohen

They crept forth from across the city last Friday evening -- in Hummers, vintage convertibles and plain old Toyotas -- to huddle together at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood for its first ever scary drive-in movie series. To kick off this 10-week...

Two members of the Congressional Democratic leadership and a labor leader give the superdelegate nod to Obama, bringing him five new delegates on the day to none for Clinton. The Congressmen are both heavyweights -- Rep. Henry Waxman (left), chair......

NEW YORK — Verizon Communications Inc. and two unions representing 65,000 workers who had threatened to strike within hours agreed Sunday on a new three-year contract that provides 10.5 percent wage increases and changes in retirement benefits. The...

NEW YORK Verizon Communications Inc. and two unions representing 65,000 workers who had threatened to strike within hours agreed yesterday on a new three-year contract that provides 10.5 percent wage increases and changes in retirement benefits. The pact,...

International buyers have become the best hope for Central Florida's beleaguered condo-hotel developers, many of whom have truncated or indefinitely delayed their once-ambitious building plans. During the real estate market's white-hot days several years...

The board that oversees Howard County's top-ranked school system is getting a makeover. For one thing, the board has expanded. Because of growing enrollment, the board grew from four members to seven in November. County Executive Ken Ulman named a...

Federal officials Senators // Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat, 202-224-4654; Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat, 202-224-4524. Representatives // Seventh District: Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat, 202-225-4741; Third District: John Sarbanes, Democrat, 202-225-4016...

What do millionaire homeowners have in common with plain folk? In the last year, their houses have risen in value, thanks to a real estate boom that knows no neighborhood boundaries. And both groups are anxious to convert their housing wealth into...

Do you like scary movies? From the fangs of Nosferatu to those Texas chainsaws, there's plenty of spine-tingling scares awaiting you on DVD. Check out the titles listed below, a select crop of some of the most terrifying movies of all time. Watch with...

Queens’ 25 largest private companies, ranked by revenue, are profiled here. Revenue figures are for 2000 for almost all companies. The first employment figure listed is companywide; a local figure, where available, is for the number of workers in Queens....

(R). Don't hang up/Oh don't you do it baby/Don't hang up. Implausible, often hare-brained sometimes-thriller about a man on a pay phone pinned down by a sniper. Not interminable, but it does have the sense of dial tone about it. With Colin Farrell,...

2 stars (out of 4) Sorry, "Cellular" is a wrong number. Speeding away from its distant origins as a very promising story idea about cell phones and kidnappings to its screaming realization as another outlandishly cliched L.A.-set movie thriller--high on...