Appendectomy

At the risk of buzz-kill accusations: Jim Larranaga lost the last two games he coached here at the Verizon Center. Larranaga's return to the nation's capital is a natural story as his Miami Hurricanes prepare for Thursday's NCAA East Regional...

Fire up your ovens, Lake County! Our girl Laura Cook is in Afghanistan, and she is craving Christmas cookies. Chocolate chip, peanut butter, snickerdoodles, oatmeal, thumbprints — and that's not all. The 32-year-old Tavares native, a junior...

Did you ever have your week all planned out and then one little incident changed everything? That's how the past few days have gone for my family, and it all started with a tap on the shoulder. I was listening to research essay presentations when a...

Nurse Genevieve Grigoli with actor Burt Lancaster check on each other's pulse at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital....

Good Monday afternoon, ladies and gents. We should have quite a busy evening here on the Chopping Block blog and the Orlando Sentinel's Seminoles page, as we begin settling into the early days of Florida State's 2012 season. As you have hopefully...

Veteran opera and stage designer Robert Israel has done 11 huge sculptures for a new children's hospital wing in Baltimore. The UCLA professor -- currently working on a ballet at La Scala in Milan, Italy -- had set sculpture aside since his 1968 debut...

Bret Michaels, the Poison front man who recently has been known as well for his battle back after a brain hemorrhage, will celebrate his 25th anniversary in music by playing a show at Allentown’s Crocodile Rock Café, with a special......

TOP 5 CONCERTS OF THE COMING WEEK 1. GUNS N' ROSES Guns N’ Roses has released only one album since it disintegrated in 1994. That was 2008’s “Chinese Democracy,” an album that had only one original member – singer Axl......

It was high drama on Capitol Hill –- and I don’t mean about the debt-ceiling debate, for which "low" is a more apt adjective. I mean the startling appearance in the House of Representatives of one of its honorable members,......

Joe Paterno held one of his most unique press conferences Tuesday, speaking for 20 minutes from the passenger's seat of a golf cart at Penn State's indoor practice facility. During the session, Paterno said that he has no hairline fractures......

Paging Dr. Oz -- one of Oprah's anointed ones has taken ill. Lifestyle whiz Nate Berkus was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday with a case of appendicitis. "He was on the 'Today' show this morning, and he wasn't feeling......