Knight-Ridder Tribune

An estimated 7 million Americans are the primary caregivers for elderly relatives, friends or neighbors. Often, helping out with household chores, personal care and medical and financial matters can be...

Ask a ballplayer his batting average, he'll tell you. Ask a prosecutor her won-lost record, she'll probably brag about it. But try asking a stockbroker or a financial adviser how...

The Mall of America has shown it can draw shoppers, but now it faces a tougher test: Can it attract enough viewers to justify a daily, one-hour television show? NBC...

Now politically correct cats can do right by the environment while offering their masters the chance to make editorial comments. Ampro Industries Inc., a western Michigan company better known for...

Our synthetic world has produced new consumers who want not only real wool but stuff right off the backs of sheep personally known to them, with such classy names as...

Lost in the gush of superlatives on the San Francisco 49ers' offense, forgotten amid the pantheon of talent, is the intense guy up in the booth, the one with the...

Good friends, I have discovered, are another reason that I am so glad I am a woman. Women's friendships are endearing, elegant and enduring-often more so, I think, than men's....

Audio is handy for many things. For instance, if you listen to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories instead of reading them silently, you get to hear his wonderful yodel-like jungle...

Fresh herbs, poultry and a little vermouth are all you need for this simple French dish that is full of flavor. Try to use fresh tarragon. It is sold in...

Lindsey Birch of Pontiac isn't the most experienced bank branch manager around, but at age 9, she's certainly one of the youngest. Lindsey runs the newest NBD Bank branch, at...