With a name like "Dance Marathon," you would expect to enter the River Ridge High School gymnasium to find staggering couples with matching numbers pinned to their backs struggling to hold each other up. Actually, dancing was just one small part - and an optional one at that - of the event members of the school's Future Business Leaders of America held last Saturday. They called their fundraiser event "Dance Marathon" as more of symbolic choice than a literal description. ...more

February 14, 2009

Sydney Pollack, 73, a director and producer of popular Hollywood movies for nearly four decades, including the comedy "Tootsie," and who won Academy Awards for "Out of Africa," died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He had cancer. ...more

May 27, 2008