Boys survive week in boxcar drinking stale beer

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Two boys who hopped a freight train and got locked in a boxcar say they survived for more than a week by drinking the cargo: stale beer from mostly empty bottles being returned to a brewery. more...

Octogenarian was toast of simpler era

ALTADENA -- "You can call me a two-dollar whore, but don't call me a racist," says Dixie Granat, 80, who recently served time for trying to run over an African-American teen-ager with her Suzuki Samurai. more...