Females: Lab/pit bull/boxer mix, white, 4 months; beagle mix, tri-colored, 2 years; Lab/beagle mix, black/white, 7 months; Bernese Mountain mix, black/brown, 6 years.

Pictures of Marcus Miller often show him wearing what is almost a trademark porkpie hat. Truth is, the extraordinary musician wears many hats, some of them simultaneously.

Randy Pausch's speech was viewed by millions online Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and

As industry and society become more Web-enabled, there is growing backlash among those who feel the medium is negatively impacting our collective intelligence.

BLACKSTONE — A public library bustling with patrons is supposed to be a good thing, right? Not when a lot of those patrons are jobless. The economy has taken a nose dive and public library usage is soaring.