Angels right fielder Torii Hunter, whose son was arrested this week, has been placed on the restricted list, a vehicle that provides more flexibility than the more commonly used disabled list. When the Angels placed outfielder Torii Hunter on baseball's restricted list, it focused attention on a rarely used vehicle available to clubs in the major leagues.

ATLANTA — Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her…

ATLANTA — Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her…

Giants fans are all over the place with opinions on whether the team should sign Tim Lincecum to a contract surpassing $100 million, but imagine the views in Texas on Josh Hamilton . Hamilton has surpassed Matt Kemp as…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The real issue with breast-feeding is this: Too few infants who could really benefit from it are getting mom's milk. Sure, Time magazine's cover photo of a woman breast-feeding h…

Photo of mother breast-feeding her 3-year-old sparks conversation, but not the right conversation, expert says The cover of the latest Time magazine illustrates a story about 72-year-old pediatrician Dr. William Sears with a photo of a nearly 4-year-old boy standing and suckling at the breast of his 26-year-old mother.

Photo of mother breast-feeding her 3-year-old sparks conversation, but not the right conversation, expert says The cover of the latest Time magazine illustrates a story about 72-year-old pediatrician Dr. William Sears with a photo of a nearly 4-year-old boy standing and suckling at the breast of his 26-year-old mother.

With the Tuesday death of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, PEOPLE readers reflect on the classic book

I first found baseball, or baseball found me, as Jim Bouton might say, back in the early 1980s. Situated as I was in central Indiana, it made perfect sense that I gravitated to the Cincinnati Reds, particularly because they were the only team on local television at the time. I bought into the club when they were hapless losers, oblivious to the glory days that lay just a few years in the past …

As I mentioned in the SNL Sketch Predictor on Friday, athletes generally make the worst SNL hosts. And I'm sorry to report that Eli Manning did not exceed my reasonably low expectations. That said, at least Manning's training and experience as a professional athlete meant that, even as his comedic talent failed … More »