Jerry Sacharski crafted his first batting tee from metal piping, some pieces of rubber and part of a garden hose. Half a century later he still was coaching T-ball, a game that introduced baseball to millions of kids from backyards to the White House lawn

A man who helped popularize T-ball as an organized youth sport has died.

Paul Graham III scored 25 points to lead Florida Atlantic to a 67-61 victory over Denver on Thursday night, extending the Pioneers’ road losing streak to 43 games.

Japanese electronics company Pioneer Corp. says it will cut 10,000 jobs globally.

More than 50 years after her refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white woman set the stage for a similar act of defiance by Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin is finally getting her due as a civil rights pioneer.

His memories of Helen Keller are vivid, if not entirely favorable: She had big hands, a forceful personality, and not much of a sense of humor.

Teena Marie was first recognized as an R&B talent in the 1970s when she signed a recording deal with Motown at the tender age of 19.

Pioneer photojournalist Cornell Capa has died at the age of 90.The death of Capa (KAP’-uh) was announced Friday by New York’s International Center of Photography, which he founded.Capa _ the brother of the famed photographer Robert Capa _ was a pioneer...

Investors stripped nearly a fifth off the value of Pioneer Corp. on Wednesday, the day after the troubled Japanese electronics company warned it is heading for a fifth straight year of heavy losses as it wrestles with costly restructuring at its ailing...

In a double-barreled approach to environmental restoration, Appalachian mountains scarred by strip-mining are being planted with American chestnut trees, a species that has been all but wiped out in the U.S. by a fungus.For the past 30 years or so,...