What started as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated into violence and six days of civil unrest known as the Watts Riots ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

With the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Riots upon us, the annual National Night Out in Watts carried special weight.