recreation and leisure

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Game of Life is known for turning events such as marriage, going to college and paying for auto insurance into moves on a ...

Ninety-seven years ago, an armistice ended World War I, which was then the greatest conflict the world had ever seen. Armistice Day became Veterans Da...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Animal rights activists applauded SeaWorld's plans to end its orca shows at its San Diego park but said the company should phase out ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The director and cast of "Warcraft" are hammering down on BlizzCon. A trailer for the film adaptation of the long-running inter...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Twister, the parlor game once too hot for the Sears catalog but cool enough for Johnny Carson, was inducted Thursday into the N...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Revelers streamed into cemeteries across Haiti on Sunday bearing beeswax candles, food offerings and bottles of rum infus...

ALEGRETE, Brazil (AP) — Wearing traditional broad-brimmed hats and red neckerchiefs, their trousers tucked into soft, leather boots, the South America...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former first lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna Bush Hager are working on another children's book. HarperCollins Publishers told The A...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two men killed by an explosion inside a World War II-era tank at an Oregon firing range were participating in a video shoot in a...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion liked working at a Las Vegas cryotherapy center so much that she stayed behind when her boyfriend move...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After just two days, Florida ended its controversial black bear hunt because a higher than expected number of bears had b...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The sound of voices in synch filled the air as two of country music's greatest vocal harmony groups, the Oak Ridge Boys and th...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cirque du Soleil has revealed one of the female leads of its first production created specifically for Broadway and, appropriately, sh...

PARIS (AP) — Her neck was broken and she was being kept alive by machines after the car crash that nearly killed her. Most people who come back from t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sixty-one wingsuit skydivers have flown into the record books, creating a diamond-shaped formation while soaring over California be...

CAIRO (AP) — Restorers put their work on the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun on display in Cairo on Tuesday, over a year after the beard ...

Fort Myers police released a description of a suspect in the deadly shooting at a zombie festival and said Monday they had heavily scrutinized a bysta...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An auction on eBay allows the public to make a different kind of purchase as they peruse the used clothing, electronics and war r...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards and "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon will be special guests helping to induct their fri...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe is no longer pressing for the extradition of James Walter Palmer, an American dentist who killed a well-known lion ca...