Bern’s Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident to euthanasia and will be closed for good.

“The Last House on the Left” could be interpreted as the most vile, misogynistic “Just Say No” ad ever.

A man accused of running down and shooting an Illinois pastor to death mid-sermon left an arsenal of guns in his bedroom as well as an index card marked “Last Day Will.”

Kentucky’s stumble down the stretch has left the Wildcats in unfamiliar territory heading into the Southeastern Conference tournament.

Last year’s oil price run-up made it a good time to be an oil company CEO with a fistful of stock options, and Ray Irani of Occidental Petroleum made the most of it, cashing in $184.4 million worth.

Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay.

Last week’s peaceful Iraqi elections appear to have been a rousing success _ a major step toward a stable democracy that will hasten the day when U.S. troops can leave.

Last year’s Oscar nominations day was tragic. This year’s was bittersweet.

Var the police dog has added one more brave arrest to his record _ his last one.

Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives: It was chimpanzees for Jane Goodall, mountain gorillas for Dian Fossey and the elusive, solitary orangut