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The Federal Communications Commission, hoping to reduce the spiraling cost of cable television, is preparing to strike down thousands of contracts this week that shut out competitors by giving individual...

If the idiosyncratic, '40s-era cottage Alice Keller bought in Shoreline, a small city just north of Seattle, had a style, it might be called classic teardown. The ceiling in one...

Sigrid Olsen, an artist and fashion designer whose clothing is sold nationwide at Macy's, has taken the concept of customer service to the extreme. Visitors who pop into her Gloucester,...

"I've got ADHD," "Extreme Makeover" carpenter-turned-home-design specialist Ty Pennington admitted happily at the late summer opening of his shop on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Calif. "That's why I called...

Five years ago, Heather Carter and Marc Gitterle were like many Americans: They lived in a four-bedroom house, they each drove an SUV and they had an awareness of environmental...

Five years ago, Heather Carter and Marc Gitterle were like many Americans: They lived in a four-bedroom house, they each drove an SUV and they had an awareness of environmental...

Sigrid Olsen, an artist and fashion designer whose clothing is sold nationwide at Macy's, has taken the concept of customer service to the extreme. Visitors who pop into her Gloucester,...

To some, it may seem like an ideal relationship: less stressful than an affair, longer lived than a fling or that elusive one-night stand. You can even sit around in...

After serving more than two years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager, Genarlow Wilson shook the hand of a warden Friday at the Al Burruss...

In a down real estate market, they came to buy. They came early, they came in numbers and they came with bank checks for $5,000. By 10 a.m. on this...