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Zoning rules requiring builders to sell houses at below-market prices to lower-income earners have boosted costs for other new San Francisco Bay Area homes by up to $44,000 and squelched...

Maybe Hank Aaron isn't happy about the way the normal-sized-guy home run records are being swept aside and devalued by today's Gold's Gym All-Stars. Maybe Aaron is one of the...

Purdue coach Gene Keady has turned down the head-coaching job at the University of San Francisco. Athletic director Bill Hogan said Friday that Keady had come close to taking over...

Really, the only newsy news on the steroids story is the list that was released by players union exec Gene Orza--"Things steroids aren't any worse than." The list, expanding on...

Don't be alarmed by the bright light in the skies over Philadelphia. It's only a rare astronomical phenomenon, a Harmonic Knucklehead Convergence. Terrell Owens and Allen Iverson, both in one...

Children of God Go Bowling By Shannon Olson Viking, 292 pages, $24.95 With her first novel, "Welcome to My Planet," Minnesota writer Shannon Olson was hailed as America's answer to...

Jacqueline Thompson always has been fascinated with tattoos. She remembers a tattoo her aunt in England had. "She had `mum' written on her wrist, and it was all very hush-hush,...

All the beautiful pictures of spacious, well-ordered bathrooms we see in magazines are enough to make a person cry. Most of us don't shower and shave in the kind of...

We had such a problem with voles in the garden this summer that Noi'sie the farm cat wasn't able to keep up with the mice that nibbled their way into...

Jacqueline Thompson always has been fascinated with tattoos. She remembers a tattoo her aunt in England had. "She had `mum' written on her wrist, and it was all very hush-hush,...