LOS ANGELES - It promises to be a colorful Academy Awards season when films featuring Richard Nixon and Batman could go toe-to-toe for best picture.

“No holds barred,” Richard Nixon urges to David Frost as the two prepare to sit down for a series of interviews in 1977.

LOS ANGELES - Gerald Ford, the only unelected president in United States’ history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93.

YORBA LINDA, Calif. - The meeting between two of the most improbable cultural icons of the 1970s lasted all of 30 minutes, but it has fascinated the nation for years.

Anniversaries come and go, so much so that it’s hard to keep up with them all. But it does speak volumes about how much the world has changed that, 35 years after President Richard Nixon made his historic trip to China, how few people and media outlets commemorated the event last month.

TO OUR READERS: As quintuple homicide suspect William Miller awaits trial, Tribune assistant editor Daryl James recounts an unusual twist: How the newspaper staff handled bizarre encounters with Miller.

TO OUR READERS: As quintuple homicide suspect William Miller awaits trial, Tribune assistant editor Daryl James recounts an unusual twist: How the newspaper staff handled bizarre encounters with Miller.

Arizona’s senators received poor marks for civil liberties this week at a Valley forum featuring Richard Nixon’s former White House lawyer, John Dean.

LOS ANGELES -The Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight," slighted in earlier Hollywood honors, was among best-picture nominees Monday for the Producers Guild of America Awards.

President Bush recently pardoned 17 criminals, most convicted of minor offenses and few who served much prison time. What made it noteworthy is that Bush has issued so few pardons as president.

September 7, 2004

Few teams were hit as hard by graduation as defending 5A champion Highland this past offseason. Yet, despite the loss of nine players from last year’s team, the Hawks are heading back to the girls state semifinals for the 10th time in 11 years.

NEW YORK - He's played Beldar Conehead, Elwood Blues and Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute. But this Saturday, you can call Dan Aykroyd host.

Remember a year ago, when the circus came to TV?

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. We're finally on our own own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio."

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - It's not as if any huge shockers emerged from the Golden Globe nominations Thursday. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" lead the field with five apiece, which makes absolute sense - they're all polished, starry, classic awards-season fare.

Retired Army pilot Fred Ferguson won’t be with his comrades this week when they travel to Washington, D.C., to commemorate the first National Medal of Honor Day on March 25.

WASHINGTON - Eyewitnesses to history, Americans paraded through the Capitol on Sunday to pay their final respects to Gerald R. Ford, with parents seeking to convey to their children the significance of the 38th president's short tenure.

July 14, 1913: Leslie Lynch King Jr. born, Omaha, Neb. After his parents divorce and his mother remarries, he is adopted by his stepfather and takes his name: Gerald R. Ford.