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LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche, the Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor whose work in “Six Days Seven Nights,” “Another World” and dozens of other projects dovetailed with a groundbreaking romance with Ellen DeGeneres that challenged homophobia in Hollywood, has died. She was 53.

Loren Schauers, 20, who had to have the bottom half of his body amputated following an accident says his loyal dog never leaves his side

PITTSBURGH — He might be built like a bear with shoulders as wide as Atlas', but as Cecil Usher addressed the crowd assembled upstairs at Emerson's in Market Square on the night of Feb. 28, he couldn't help but get a little emotional.

MIAMI -- The U.S. Coast Guard has been busy on the waters this year as the agency deals with a surge in migration to Florida from Cuba and Haiti.