Wasn’t this sort of thing supposed to be a part of the Red Sox past? Bill Buckner’s booted ground ball? A “Curse of the Bambino� and World Series futility for over 86 years?

'The Apple Lover's Cookbook' by Amy Traverso is a practical apple encyclopedia with recipes for 59 varieties of apples.

A Syrian leader who waged jihad in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Iraq says that a year of reexamining the Quran has caused his group to treat other religions with more tolerance.

AP - Stocks are soaring as trading opens after applications for unemployment benefits fell to a five-month low and the government reported that the economy grew faster than previously reported this spring.

AP - An American fugitive who once hijacked a plane lived openly in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau during the 1980s under his real name and even knew U.S. embassy officials there, a former U.S. ambassador said Thursday.