Topic: Elizabeth Pena

On Sept. 23, 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the corn fields of Iowa to find out what made the American farmer tick and urged that the earth "be furrowed by plows, not rockets and tanks."

On Sept. 23, 1806, U.S. explorers Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and back.

The shocking deaths of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elizabeth Pena, Harold Ramis, Joan Rivers, Misty Upham and Robin Williams made media headlines in 2014.

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Actresses Elizabeth Pena and Stephanie Beatriz will guest star on ABC's "Modern Family" as Sofia Vergara's character's family, the executive producer said.

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Texas plans to carry out the Aug. 5 execution of Houston rapist-killer Jose Medellin despite a U.N. world court order for a stay, a state official says.

A state judge Monday set the death date for a Mexican national convicted in the gang rape and deaths of two teenage girls in Texas.