A seagoing superhero, Popeye was first seen in 1929 in E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre. The comic strip itself had been running, dispensing fairly cockeyed mock-adventure continuities, since King Features Syndicate introduced it in 1919. Segar,...

Popeye the Sailor is a comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar,[1] and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Segar's first Thimble...

A 4-year-old girl was mauled at a children's birthday party by a cougar that had been brought in by a wild-animal business to entertain the youngsters, authorities said.The girl was attacked on Nov. 18 at the home of Goya Foods president Francisco Unanue during a...

Abraham Lincoln apparently doesn't attract votes like he used to in Illinois.The state Bureau of Tourism announced the results of its "Seven Wonders of Illinois" promotion, which the public began voting on in February. And nowhere on the list is anything to do with the...

Selected home-video releases:"300"This year's first $200 million hit was a marriage of ancient history and modern Hollywood bloodshed, filtered through the visual wizardry of computer-generated animation. The adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel combines live-action actors with surrounding backgrounds added later through digital imagery, a...

An alleged drug cartel hit man who is among the suspects in the 1993 slaying of a Mexican cardinal was arrested in the border city of Tijuana, authorities announced on Saturday.Alfredo Araujo Avila, also known as "Popeye," allegedly worked for the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug...