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Les Claypool has made his mark on music for more than four decades with a litany of singular bands and releases. Since he introduced the world to his maniacal vision for funk metal with Primus in the ...

Brigadoon' soars at Pasadena Playhouse but 'Flower Drum Song' only intermittently comes to life at Little Tokyo's Aratani ...

Even amid an ongoing controversy, the Leapfrog Group released its semi-annual safety rankings, with hundreds of hospitals earning top marks, while just 5 got an F. Four states have the highest ...

Five Parkview Health and two Lutheran Health Network hospitals received A’s on the spring Hospital Safety Grades report issued Wednesday by The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization.

LeapFrog’s Tag Reading System was the pride and joy of my first-grade existence. Advertised in a 2009 article of The New York Times headlined “System Offers a Chance for the Littlest Reader to Get ...

Mick Fleetwood is no stranger to love, having married four women in five weddings. The Fleetwood Mac drummer and band cofounder famously romanced bandmate Stevie Nicks in 1977 between his two ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to include comment from Tenet Healthcare. A federal judge in Florida has sided with five hospitals that challenged the biannual grading system of the health ...

After a federal judge ordered The Leapfrog Group to remove safety grades it assigned to five Florida hospitals, Leapfrog told Becker’s March 16 it has pulled several grades for U.S. hospitals that ...

An independent hospital rating organization has taken down grades of a South Florida health system after a judge ruled the group unfairly scored hospitals in semiannual patient safety reports. The U.S ...

Tara covers the business of health care. Her stories focus on hospitals, doctors, and how their business practices affect patients — especially when private equity gets involved. She also writes about ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A federal judge in West Palm Beach has ruled that The Leapfrog Group’s safety grades for five Palm Beach County hospitals were “unfair and deceptive,” ordering the ...