Today is Blumesday -- not a typo, as it turns out, but a holiday concocted to celebrate the beloved young-adult author Judy Blume.

Today is Blumesday--not a typo, as it turns out, but a holiday concocted to celebrate the beloved young-adult author Judy Blume. Bloomsday, which honors James Joyce's "Ulysses," took place on Sunday.  As NPR reports, Blumesday was created by writers Joanna Miller and Heather Larimer, who, try as they might, found they were never quite able to embrace Joyce's vast novel. "We sort of self-deprecatingly said, 'Well the only way we could participate in Bloomsday was if it were Judy Blumesday.' And then the joke turned into, 'Wait, why aren't we doing this?" Miller said, on NPR's "Morning Edition."

Unlike the steelworkers and shipbuilders who worked with vast quantities of asbestos decades ago, the latest round of mesothelioma sufferers tend to be more idiosyncratic, changing asbestos litigation.

The U.S. and Europe increasingly are moving in different directions to modernize air-traffic-control networks and the result threatens to undermine progress on both sides, a Federal Aviation Administration official says.

Congressional interviews with Internal Revenue Service employees so far have undercut assertions by agency officials and some Democrats that the targeting of conservative groups was solely the work of agents in the Cincinnati office.

The National Security Agency sweeps up data on millions of cellphones and Internet communications, but it has disclosed new details that portray its efforts as tightly controlled and limited in scope.

Ventura firefighters and police are investigating a pair of suspicious brush fires that occurred in the north end of the city Sunday.

President Obama arrived in Northern Ireland for a summit that will center on the intensifying showdown over Syria's civil war, amid rising tensions between world powers over the conflict.

The Oxnard School District wants to eliminate retiree health benefits for new teachers.

Santa Monica gunman John Zawahri's stockpile of 1,300 bullets shows the need for legislation to restrict ammunition purchases.

From what I've been reading, the Santa Monica killer was packing an illegal assault rifle and 40 high-capacity ammunition magazines. He sprayed 100 bullets and had access to 1,300.

A boy died at a hospital after a vehicle hit him while he was riding a bicycle Sunday in Camarillo, sheriff’s deputies said.

A Camarillo collision caused a 12-year-old bicyclist to be hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, officials said.

A salsa festival in Moorpark on Sunday focused on honoring service members as well as food and dancing.

Yale University has acquired a vast and renowned collection of English lawbooks and legal manuscripts assembled by the barrister Anthony Taussig.