"All politics is local," Tip O'Neill instructed us, and All the King’s Men adds a postscript: nowhere is more local than Louisiana. Adrian Hall's play, adapted from Robert Penn Warren's novel, opens with a song from native Louisianan Randy Newman

The secretive society gains a higher, hipper profile as younger men seek out a place for fraternal bonding. IN LOS FELIZ, across from a 7-Eleven on North Vermont Avenue, a few dozen men in their early 20s to late 80s share a dinner behind closed doors.

The state has called for a life sentence for the two men convicted of the murder of Strand teenager Monique Martin, who was doused with petrol and set alight, and has agreed that the third accused should be sent to a correctional facility for rehabilitati

When John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, confessed to a 10-year battle with the eating disorder bulimia, he threw a light on the disturbing and growing prevalence of eating disorders in our society. The 69-year-old's admission of a vicious c

The FBI had developed an interest in my family shortly before I was born. One morning, my dad attended a meeting of local chicken farmers to discuss the price of eggs. Two agents picked him up as he walked home, and questioned him about possible Communist