It’s the second big advance in less than a year on the prevention front. Last fall, scientists reported that an experimental vaccine cut the risk of HIV infection by about 30 percent. Research is under way to try to improve it.If further study shows the gel to be safe and effective, WHO will work to [...]

By: John FlesherMARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) – A jury has convicted a Michigan couple of conspiring to extort $680,000 from actor John Stamos by threatening to sell photos of him with strippers and cocaine to thetabloids.Federal prosecutors say Allison Coss and Scott Sippola demanded the money but didn’t actually have any unflattering photos of the former [...]

Accused LA serial killer said to visit prostitutes
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Updated:By THOMAS WATKINSAssociated Press WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) – To many of his neighbors and customers, Lonnie Franklin Jr. was just a friendly mechanic who often stopped to chat as he tinkered on cars in the front driveway of his mint-green house on 81st Street.But [...]

An entirely different type of quintessential American art is featured at the American Sign Museum, where owner-curator Tod Swormstedt has assembled a funky collection of hundreds of roadside signs from yesteryear. From fancy gold-leaf glass to “chaser” light bulbs to flashing neon, Swormstedt’s nostalgic signs – many of them very familiar and very big – [...]

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