It is very difficult to recognize Julie Mughal's Upstate New York accent. It may be there, if she takes a moment to slow down her speech. At the fast-clipped rate she usually talks, one hears an accent from other lands. [read more]

A second student death has rocked the campus of Yale University after a young sophomore from Long Island was discovered unresponsive in his dorm room. Andre Narcisse, 19, was found unresponsive Sunday morning about 11 in his suite at Branford College, one of the school's residential colleges, according to Tom Conroy, a Yale spokesman. [read more]

Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Remarkable movie star Claudette Colbert was always considered at the very top of her game over a film career that lasted 34 years, 50 if you count an extra TV movie appearance. A consummate professional, she played the game her own way, neither fighting to be the best-regarded actress nor the most desired lover. Stories about her on-set demands never ... [read more]

SPECIAL EVENTS Voodoo Music Experience City Park. Huge music festival with eight stages, more than 150 bands, including headliners Kiss, Eminem, Widespread Panic and The Flaming Lips, food booths, interactive games and crafts, 10 a.m.-10 today-Sun. Tickets are $75, $180... [read more]

For Aisha Thomas-Petit and Danielle Etienne, it was love at first sip. [read more]