David Berkowitz

A roundup of Legislative thoughts this week: -  House Bill 1135, which would have limited the public's ability to use public water if the land under the water is privately owned, was killed Wednesday in the Senate State Affairs Committee.  Good move....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Super Bowl ads this year morphed into mini soap operas. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shrugged off aliens so he could get more milk for his kids in a Super Bowl spot for the Milk Processor Education Program. Anheuser-Busch's commercial...

I was not downtown during the recent disturbances, but I will take Del. Pat McDonough's word that the groups of young thugs were, in fact, black ("Baltimore and bigotry," May 18). Here is the point I want to make: The fact that they were black had nothing...

First of all, let's explain why the serial comma is important to some people. A blog on economist.com cites an apocryphal example: "I'd like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God." Without a comma after "Rand," the writer has a mighty unusual parentage....

Jerry Newcombe Title: Senior producer, Coral Ridge Ministries, Fort Lauderdale, and host of "The Coral Ridge Hour." Other job experience: Writer or co-writer of 21 books, including 2006 bestseller "George Washington's Sacred Fire," along with Peter...

Kentucky recently received a dubious honor. In December, the Animal Legal Defense Fund based in San Francisco announced that Kentucky has the weakest laws against animal abuse in the nation. The fund said Illinois, with its strong animal abuse laws, was...

Aweek ago today, Malibu residents woke to discover that wildfire had broken out in the hills above the Pacific Coast Highway. By evening, nearly a dozen blazes were spreading across several counties, with flames igniting close to Poway, then Agua Dulce,...

Eliot Spitzer, the timing and tone of whose emergence from the land of the hairshirts has become a subject of public debate, offers the following bit of humor at a party earlier this week, according to Vanity Fair: "...The......

On a day when Internet search giant Google Inc. stuck its neck out and placed a $36 billion value on itself - higher than even McDonald's Corp.-many users found its services worthless, shut down by the latest version of the MyDoom virus, which first...

The morning talk shows were barely over yesterday when Robert K. Ressler - criminologist, retired FBI agent, the man who interviewed Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and the Son of Sam - decided to stop talking to the media....

Friday July 2, 1999      "Summer of Sam" is shorthand for New York City in the unbearably hot summer of 1977, when a serial killer known as Son of Sam terrorized the city and inspired state-of-the-art tabloid headlines such as "Killer to Cops: I'll Do It...

One evening in July 1994, 50-year-old Steven Chaifetz and his wife were eating in a popular Long Island diner when a bullet pierced his body, killing him instantly. Three days later another slug slammed into the bulletproof booth of a nearby Amoco gas...