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Born and raised in California, Christopher Reynolds has written about travel, the outdoors, arts and culture for the Los Angeles Times since 1990. Since 2015, Reynolds has kayaked in Canada ...

UPDATE, Sept. 22: A second trailer for Red One opens with a team of taser-wielding intruders, led by Lucy Liu, who kidnap Chris Evans’ bounty hunter character on a top secret mission to rescue ...

Police said the child is safe. Sgt. Chris McCord said on Monday that the allegations remain under investigation. The man disputed the kidnapping charge during his initial court appearance Monday ...

A homeless man wearing a blond wig, makeup, pearls and high heels has been arrested for allegedly trying to snatch an 11-year-old boy from outside his Ohio home, cops said. Joshua Freyermuth, 39 ...

Chris Martin has some bad news for Coldplay fans: the band will only be releasing two more “proper” albums — and the reason comes down to quality control. Martin, 47, made the revelation ...

The series will feature a new, animated take on the classic CW series “Everybody Hates Chris,” although this new iteration will air on Comedy Central. In the series, Chris Rock narrates ...

Chris McGinn, the CEO of the Texas Association of Elections Administrators, said voters are put in suspense when their local elections department can’t confirm their address. “They send voter ...

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She also is survived by eight grandchildren: Christopher McGinn, Holly Stacey, Lori DeTemple, Russell Rock, Stacy Rock, Bradley Rhoads, Brent Rhoads and Dakota Essick. There are seven great ...

Jessyca Mullenberg's 1995 kidnapping shook her local Eau Claire, Wis., community Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has previously appeared in ...