James Barker

The Huntington Beach High boys' track and field team had one goal entering the 2011 season: win the Sunset League championship. If they accomplish their goal, the Oilers would be end a 28-year drought. That goal is still within reach, but they will need...

Junior pitcher Alonzo Garcia allowed three hits while striking out six and walking two in San Fernando's 5-1 win over Banning. Julio Arias had two hits and Miguel Castaneda had two RBIs. Downey swept a doubleheader from Long Beach Poly,......

NEW YORK (AP) — A high-speed commuter ferry that crashed into a lower Manhattan dock, injuring dozens of people, had recently undergone a major overhaul that gave it new engines and a new propulsion system, and officials were looking into whether...

Five years ago, ACC presidents could have dismissed the blather regarding the conference’s imminent demise. After all, why dignify with comment what you know to be baseless? But today, Twitter and message boards are not to be ignored. Nor, sadly,...

Notre Dame and the ACC didn’t need one another 10 years ago, five years ago or even six months ago. But after an historic, seismic and downright bizarre spring and summer, they do now. Their partnership, announced Wednesday, is imperfect. But as...

As he has throughout this turbulent offseason, ACC commissioner John Swofford on Sunday hailed the conference as strong, secure and stable. “There’s just plus after plus after plus,” Swofford said at the league’s annual...

When tourist James Barker had dinner at the home of his Ethiopian hosts, he knew he'd have to be polite and eat whatever indigenous cuisine they offered him. He didn't know it wouldn't be cooked. Ethiopia is "a nation who generally live[s] on raw meat,...

“That Guiltiest Feeling,” by Clare Briggs. View Larger Map Jan. 10, 1920: The old prospector just wanted some money for a grubstake to go back to Mexico. "The lure of the desert proved too much for me," says James Barker, 70, a man with long prison...

Her smile stretched from one end of the rink to the other, and hundreds of young girls excitedly shrieked her name: "Kimmie! Kimmie!" The screams bounced off the rafters. Bel Air's ice princess, 16-year-old figure skater Kimmie Meissner, took her place...