Knight-Ridder Tribune

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, Gary Trent was a football player and diver. He was also a truant, a drug dealer and a thief. A basketball player? Sorry, no time...

When USAir wanted to drum up some business in general, or promote a new route or two, it offered bonus frequent-flier mileage for a limited time to anyone who flew....

A custom van? The last time you looked, they had shag carpeting on the walls, barrel chairs that swiveled and bubble side windows, peaking through the painted mural of a...

Glenn Miller, in a black head scarf patterned in red skulls and a black T-shirt with cutout sleeves, stands at the tasting bar spinning a '91 cabernet in his wine...

The keen eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope are shattering scientists' pet theories about two fundamental questions about the universe: What is it made of? And how old is it?...

Just as many discriminating mail-order shoppers look forward at this season to the Neiman-Marcus or Saks Christmas catalog, movie buffs await a similar treat-the Movies Unlimited Video Catalog. The weighty...

Q-We're planning to buy a house. We had a bad experience in California, and my husband is convinced we need to put 20 percent down. That means another six to...

General Motors will expand a year-old sales strategy that's beginning to boost the automaker's tepid California sales by lowering prices and simplifying purchases. When the automaker introduced California Value Selling...

With the exception of the "Look Who's Talking" trilogy-hugely lucrative titles in which the meditations of babies and pets were given voice by the likes of Bruce Willis, Danny DeVito...

The 200th anniversary of the U.S. Capitol is celebrated on a silver dollar now being sold by the U.S. Mint. The coin carries a bold image of the Capitol dome...