“Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” (Pantheon), by Victoria Riskin If there was an Academy Award for movie books, Victoria Riskin would be making room beside the Oscar her father won for writing the romantic comedy classic “It Happened One Night.” Part biography, part Hollywood history, part love story, Riskin’s memoir about her […]

“Never Tell” by Lisa Gardner (Dutton). What seems like a slam-dunk case turns into something mysterious in Gardner’s latest featuring Boston Detective D.D. Warren. The police receive a report of shots fired inside a home, and when they arrive find a woman holding a gun and standing over a man’s dead body. It is soon […]

When Brian lost his first tooth, his father told him to put it under his pillow and the Tooth Fairy would take the tooth and leave money in exchange. “Why would she give me money for my tooth?” Brian asked. “Not sure,” said Dad, “but that’s what she does.” “Have you ever seen her?” Dad […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017 — and part of the rising threat is misinformation that makes some parents balk at a crucial vaccine, federal health officials told Congress Wednesday. Yet the vaccine is hugely effective and very […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Immigrants with specialized skills are being denied work visas or seeing applications get caught up in lengthy bureaucratic tangles under federal changes that some consider a contradiction to President Donald Trump’s promise of a continued pathway to the U.S. for the most talented foreigners. Getting what’s known as an H-1B visa […]

The dog and I were lazily walking the shore when the brown and white blur streaked into view from the left. Gaining speed toward the shallow bay, the Bald Eagle leveled off inches above the water, its large yellow talons fully extended in front of its body. With one quick thrust, the unaware fish was […]