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Amos Joel Jr., an inventor whose switching device opened the way for the cellular phone business, died Oct. 25 at his home in Maplewood, N.J. He was 90. The death...

Senior Bush administration officials are completing a plan that could help up to 3 million homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages to stay in their homes, three people briefed on...

E. Roger Muir, who helped create and was executive producer of "The Howdy Doody Show," the puppet-and-people program that first hooked millions of kids on television in its early days,...

Mireille Marokvia, who described her childhood in a French village and her wartime ordeals in Nazi Germany in two stirring memoirs published when she was in her 80s and 90s,...

Four years ago, Eminem, one of the best-selling rappers in history, released his last album of original material, "Encore," and then essentially disappeared. The years since have been pockmarked with...

Heaven knows why reputable actors such as Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson and Dianne Wiest attached themselves to "Passengers," a supernatural thriller so mechanically inept and lacking in suspense that it...

The travel industry has been hit hard by the economic slowdown, particularly in the last few weeks. Airlines reported sharp declines in passenger traffic for September. Hotel occupancy rates are...

Rudy Ray Moore, whose standup comedy, records and movies related earthy rhyming tales of a vivid gaggle of characters as they lurched from sexual escapade to sexual escapade in a...

When Wendy Postle's two children were younger, saying "yes" gave her great joy. Yes to all those toys. The music lessons. The blowout birthday parties. But as her son and...

Steve and Lisa Lepito love their vacation property on Prudence Island, R.I. The beaches, blanketed with pink and yellow shells, are a bike ride away. Creeks rich with shellfish can...