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As they seek ways to offset the downturn in home sales, real estate and mortgage brokers have recently started courting first-time buyers among the newly engaged -- at wedding expos...

Lexi James, 11, a 6th grader in Hope Mills, N.C., had been asking for a hair treatment, any hair treatment, ever since her older sister, now 13, first had her...

Last month, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, both 36, could have been working in their architecture office in New Haven, Conn., worrying about the darkening economic prospects of their profession....

Morgan Sparks, who made critical contributions to developing the second-generation transistor, which became a building block of modern electronic devices, died May 3 at his daughter's home in Fullerton, Calif....

Secret Service supervisors shared crude sexual jokes and engaged in racially derogatory banter about blacks, and passed around an anecdote about a possible assassination of Rev. Jesse Jackson, according to...

The buzz around Flight of the Conchords is huge, but that frenzy doesn't follow the band when it hits the road for real. On their HBO series, New Zealanders Jemaine...

Morris Talansky, a Long Island philanthropist and fundraiser for Israeli charities, is at the center of the growing storm surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Talansky, 75, was apparently approached...

As the supper dishes were being cleared away and the rice pudding brought out for dessert, Marvin Wyler's two wives, along with some of their children and a group of...

Some people would just as soon ignore the culinary potential of the Carolina flying squirrel or the Waldoboro green neck rutabaga. To them, the creamy Hutterite soup bean is too...

In this romantically corseted society, Ashish Chettri is as close as you get to a Don Juan. He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three...