Worst jobs: Readers share stories of their stories of making a buck the hard way

For Labor Day weekend, we asked readers to recall the worst jobs they ever had. Here are their stories.

'Bad Mother's Handbook,' 'The Norm Show,' 'Thriller' DVD reviews

2007 TV movie "The Bad Mother's Handbook" is a Robert Pattinson bait-and-switch; "The Norm Show" was a by-the-numbers sitcom; Boris Karloff anthology "Thriller" deserves a renaissance

Fall movie preview: Hollywood to offer adult-oriented fare

Time to grow up. Every year, the movie business hands itself over to the kids for the summer, and the multiplex resonates with cartoon heroes, funny bodily noises and things that go boom.

College Sports Capsules: Texas in search of blood and guts running game

AUSTIN (AP) — Run, run, run. That's all Texas coach Mack Brown wants to talk about. For a program that won 25 games the past two seasons throwing the ball behind one of the most accurate quarterbacks in NCAA history, an iron-fisted commitment to building a punishing running game seems a bit drastic.

Agonising wait for children to be freed

Three American hikers held by the Iranian government for more than a year are pawns in a diplomatic game, say their families.For Laura Fattal, one of the mothers of the three hikers being held in an Iranian prison without trial,...

Waiting for Iran to free their children

For Laura Fattal, one of the mothers of the three American hikers held in an Iranian prison without trial for more than a year, the hardest thing is the silence. She writes to him daily, and believes the letters get through. But her son, Josh Fattal, isn't allowed to write back.