DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - When 12-year-old Junior Robinson ambled into D.T.L.A. Bikes, a new cycle shop on Broadway, he seemed taken aback. As he walked down the stairs he stared at the graffiti art on the walls. At the bottom of the steps, he timidly checked out at the slim, bespectacled man bicycling around the shop.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute are partnering on a $4.75 million initiative to make housing, public buildings and outdoor spaces more accessible for people with disabilities and people of all ages.

BEVERLY SHORES — A man who uses a wheelchair, and who filed a complaint with the National Park Service over the Indiana Dunes not being accessible enough for people with disabilities, met Friday with the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore superintendent.

Annie Barrett with ridiculata spotted by eagle-eyed DANCMSTRs: Snuggie! Rainbow socks! ''Cafe'' menu!

TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people. Gone are the days of a deaf person driving to someone's house just to see if they are home. Wives text ...

Michelle Ann Day is restoring the original gatehouse, a $1.5 million project to rebuild the structure that once welcomed visitors entering from Woodland Avenue. With the help of volunteers, she has re-roofed mausoleums and repaired gravesites. But most of all she's reclaiming the lost pieces of people's lives.

The fourth annual Texas Bus Roundup made a pit-stop in Durant for the weekend at the Choctaw Casino Resort and KOA Camp Ground. Wagon Master Paul Lawry said his group has spent the past three year...

Isn't there anyone who thinks that "packing heat" is the answer to our crime problems in Oakland?

SEATTLE (AP) -- Daric Barton homered in his first two at-bats, including a grand slam just inside the right-field foul pole, and Trevor Cahill pitched seven sharp innings for his 18th victory to lead the Oakland Athletics over the Seattle Mariners 9-0 on Friday night.

The heat of Colorado summers identifies the abandoned homes in neighborhoods as if giant “Foreclosed” signs had been stuck in the yard. Once lush green lawns are crispy brown, the grass breaking off under your shoes. Flowerbeds are weed infested and bare young trees are dead.