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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the storied private equity firm, is again preparing to become a public company on the New York Stock Exchange, the firm said Sunday. The listing comes more...

A thousand dollars, or even $500, can go a long way toward transforming a room -- and your attitude toward your home. Whether it's contemporary lamp shades or new doors,...

In one of its worst electoral setbacks in years, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labor Party suffered a huge defeat in a Scottish by-election whose result was announced Friday, raising new...

Kristin Lund and her husband, Peter Coccoluto, did not have the nerve to stand up to their architect. They had selected her from the seven they interviewed as the best...

Melodie Bryant, a New York City composer, never wanted the portrait of her Uncle Ivins. There were many things she did want, when her mother moved from an elegant 2,500-square-foot...

Five years ago, Tracy and Sushe Felix lived in what many people would consider an idyllic Western setting. Theirs was a 1899 Victorian, nestled into the side of a mountain...

Stacy Grout used to be amazed at all the stuff in the unfinished basement of her Denver-area home. But after years of tripping over her young sons' toys strewn about...

Poison ivy is one of those weeds proliferating like mad as rising levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide heat up the atmosphere. Researchers at Duke University who studied...

It may seem early to book for Presidents Week. But whether prompted by rising airfares or the specter of fewer available flights, tour operators say travelers have been booking unusually...

Barbara Ann Teer, who gave up a promising career in commercial entertainment to concentrate on developing African-American culture in Harlem and who founded the National Black Theatre there, died Monday...