Burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Virginia
News reporters and editors never contribute to editorial board discussions, and editorial board members don’t have any role in news coverage. Virginia residents were right to provide him with a resting place. No one relishes the idea of ...

Gail Godwin’s ‘Flora,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
If you can’t abide novels narrated by children, stop right now and go enjoy a cigar with W.C. Fields. Nobody could blame you. Those preternaturally ironic kids prancing through too many books can be gratingly false, like bears wearing pants.

2 arrested in death of Malcolm X's grandson
Citing unnamed Mexico City prosecutors, The Associated Press reported ... Shabazz had traveled to Mexico to meet with Miguel Suarez, the leader of the activist group RUMEC, an acronym for Revolutionary United Mexicans in Combat.

Bronx woman busted for posing as aunt of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim to swindle donors
A shameless Bronx woman was busted Tuesday for posing as a relative of a Sandy Hook shooting victim and scamming $240 out of donors, prosecutors said. Nouel Alba, 37, allegedly hatched the sick scheme immediately after a deranged gunman killed 20 children ...

TV Producer Ron Weaver Dies at 75
Ron Weaver, a three-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning TV producer who worked on “The Bold and the Beautiful” and who was part of the original team that created “Sesame Street,” died in his Los Angeles-area home on May 11. He was 75. Renowned for his ...

Texas Flimflam Artist Dies at 88
Billie Sol Estes turn himself into a legend as the greatest flimflam artist in Texas history. Mr. Estes, who died Tuesday at age 88, made national news in 1962, when it was revealed that he had made millions of dollars on complex schemes involving ...