"Billy Elliot," the big British musical about a coal miner's son who dreams to dance, bowled over Broadway on Sunday, winning 10 Tonys, including best musical and a unique best actor prize for the three young performers who share the title character.

Billy Nungesser, president of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, told a Senate subcommittee Thursday that it remains unclear who is in charge of the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

University of Florida head coach Billy Donovan filled the vacant assistant coach position on his staff Monday, landing Louisville assistant Richard Pitino, son of Donovan mentor and Louisville head coach Rick Pitino.

Then there are the true stories that still breathe, susceptible to the fickle whims and winds of life. They twist their way to fresh endings. In 1988, the Romp family of Vermont drove to New York to sell Christmas trees. Patti goaded her husband, Billy, into it, to fatten a decimated bank account. W...