Annie Oakley

When Sarah Palin takes the stage Wednesday night, Republicans want voters to see a steely God-and-family conservative with heart, a lifetime NRA member ready to take aim at Washington -- a sort of Annie Oakley of the tundra. Democrats hope voters see...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - When Sarah Palin takes the stage here, Republicans want voters to see a steely God-and-family conservative with heart, a lifetime NRA member ready to take aim at Washington - a sort of Annie Oakley of the tundra. Democrats hope voters...

She's hunted moose at midnight without batting an eyelash, but Sarah Palin now finds herself up against the biggest beast of all: cultural expectations for women. The Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential hopeful is expected to address her...

PIONEERTOWN, Calif. — April Sall is a keeper of the Mojave Desert and its mountains, tending a private conservancy in the same canyon where her grandmother homesteaded in the 1920s. Once considered wasteland, this expanse of sunshine and wind is...

Gena Glickman believes that Manchester Community College is such a gem, she wants to hold it up as a national model. The new president of the state's largest community college says she'd like to showcase the college's initiatives in programs, its town-...

BEIJING -- The most decorated member of the U.S. Olympic shooting team goes to work wearing faded blue jeans, a weathered gun vest, a white Nike baseball cap and protective glasses with a yellow tint. And did we mention the string of pearls? "The pearls...

'History Detectives' 9 p.m., WTTW-Ch. 11 In this series' sixth-season premiere, Wesley Cowan, Elyse Luray and Tukufu Zuberi (right) research the history-making stories behind items brought to their attention by ordinary folks. This episode's objects...

(B+) Wanted "goes postal" with wireless speed. It's a tall tale of skyscraper proportions: the gory story of a put-upon accountant who discovers that he's the son of a top assassin in a secret world of super-assassins. The film pulls you by the scruff of...

In tonight's episode of "Weeds" (Showtime, 10 p.m.), Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) takes on the task of a risky border crossing into Mexico and back. She might not have been so cavalier about it had she seen two documentaries on cable tonight....

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—While Scarlett O'Hara stayed cool at home, Dorothy Gale took a year out to go skipping down a digital yellow brick road in a Hollywood film lab. The recently reunited Technicolor duo could well be spending much of the rest of the...

A bluff above Interstate 5 and the Ventura Expressway seems an unlikely place to find one of the best shrines to the American West. Well, maybe not, pardner. The Museum of the American West is the gift of Gene Autry, who made a fortune in the 1930s...