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  • Urn left at Helping Hands charity in Arkansas

    Usually when a charity wants a donor to return, the agency is seeking another contribution. Helping Hands in Bentonville wants the person who left what's apparently a funerary urn to come back and get it.

  • The one that didn't get away yields long-lost ring

    The one that didn't get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man. The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn.

  • In this Nov. 19, 2008 file photo, auto industry executives, from left, General Motors Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner; Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli; and Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the automotive industry bailout. Detroit's automakers, making a second bid for $25 billion in funding, are presenting Congress with plans Tuesday, Dec. 2 to restructure their ailing companies and provide assurances that the funding will help them survive and thrive.

    THE FINANCIAL CRISIS | AUTOMAKERS

    Humbled Big 3 drive for new deal

    America's automakers said they would alter their practices in exchange for up to $34 billion.

  • Members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia show their weapons near Tibu in this 2001 file photo.

    LOS ANGELES TIMES

    Colombian paramilitaries still spreading terror

    The Colombian government insists that paramilitary gangs are extinct. Try telling that to Antonio Domingo, a poor Afro-Colombian who was rousted from his home in the dead of night in August and told to leave town or be killed.

  • ART BASEL

    Art Basel detour leads to Wynwood's holy gem

    Art at the Chapel is a modest but moving exhibit by five Miami artists at San Juan Bautista, a neighborhood church tucked into a gritty sliver of Wynwood where one homeless woman rests on a plastic carton, her gaze lost to the horizon, and another talks to herself under a No Parking sign.

  • Florida panel adopts California emission rules for new cars

    A state commission is giving its approval to toughen emissions standards for new cars sold in Florida. The Environmental Regulation Commission voted 6-1 on Tuesday to adopt California's emissions rules as a way of lowering greenhouse gases, which some blame for global warming.

  • Crist, Fla. banks halt foreclosures for 45 days

    Florida's bankers and credit unions announced Monday that they'd suspend foreclosing on homeowners for the next 45 days. Gov. Charlie Crist called a press conference to announce the halt in foreclosures, but neither he nor the president of the Florida Bankers Association, Alex Sanchez, could say just how many people this could help.

  • Passersby in the Wynwood Arts District are driven past murals during last year's Art Basel week. The event transforms Miami Beach and dramatically increases foot traffic in usually sleepy areas of the Miami mainland.

    BASEL'S LASTING IMPACT

    Art Basel: The power of art

    Art Basel and its satellite fairs have accelerated the rebirth of whole neighborhoods and affirmed the role that art plays in our lives.


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