In a May 17 story about New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's admission that she used a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution, The Associated Press misstated the year of her Pulitzer Prize. She won in 1999, not 1990.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution. Dowd acknowledged the error in an e-mail to The Huffington Post on Sunday, the Web site reported. The Times corrected her column online to ...

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution. Dowd acknowledged the error in an e-mail to the Huffington Post on Sunday, the Web site reported. The Times corrected her column online to ...

Jim Bellows, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and helped make "Entertainment Tonight" a TV hit, has died. He was 86. Bellows had Alzheimer's disease and died Friday ...