‘The Brave One” couldn’t have arrived at a better time. In Neil Jordan’s new movie, out Friday, Jodie Foster points her gun at a scary-looking thug, hisses “I want my dog back,” and pulls the trigger.

When Jeanne Capozzi saw two "disreputable characters" coming toward her on Broughton Street, she didn't hesitate to put her hand on the .38 caliber revolver in her purse. "The one man was watching me, ...

Nearly 75 years ago, in January 1944, Billboard magazine published its very first country chart, topped by pop crooner Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters trio’s bubbly version of a song called ...