What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

OGUNQUIT, Maine—He was the Tom Hanks of his time: a leading man with a winning manner and breezy charm who always got the girl. But the film career of William Haines, one of early Hollywood's ...

Fifty years ago this month, one of the biggest movie stars who ever called central Virginia home died. He was a huge box office draw in his prime, starred in dozens of films, and gained even more ...