Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target in price war
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.

Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died.

Workers setting up Lights on the Lake
Drivers traveling through Liverpool may have noticed a familiar sight on Tuesday.

Everson exhibit features 53 pieces unseen in U.S.
A prominent upstate New York museum is celebrating a two-year fundraising and renovation campaign by hosting a major exhibit from the National Museum of Wales.

Letterman threw spitballs from his own glass house
In March 2008, Letterman was taking potshots at Eliot Spitzer, then governor of New York, who was embroiled in an investigation into a high-end prostitution ring.

Vinyl records seeing a resurgence
Sales of vinyl records were up an incredible 124% in 2008.

CBS worker arrested in Letterman blackmail plot
A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees.

50 years later, Twilight Zone bridges time
On a Friday night in October 1959, Americans began slipping into a dimension of imagination as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. They've really never returned.

Pultizer Prize winner William Safire dies
William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79.

SU to honor actor, author with alumni awards
Syracuse University is recognizing author Joyce Carol Oates and actor Frank Langella with its highest alumni award.