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A black pastor will exchange pulpits with a white pastor this month in what they call another step toward racial reconciliation. Rev. Larry Rascoe, pastor of the predominantly black Nazarene...

As the Rolling Stones were gearing up for their current tour, Keith Richards revealed that he had seriously considered forcing co-founding Stone Bill Wyman to perform at the point of...

A big pot, a chicken, water and a few vegetables. So simple a prescription yet so effective a cure for the winter blahs or, worse, for that horrible cold that's...

Every day at least one baby dies in Teotonio Vilela, a dusty town of 28,000 tucked into a sea of sugar cane fields in Brazil's impoverished northeast. Sometimes three or...

Fourteen-year-old Buddy Schwabe liked the dances . . . well, to be honest, he liked the girls. Ten-year-old Douglas Turner got a real kick out of feeding dog food to...

For years, the mud-spattered riding boots stood in William Faulkner's bedroom. Many a visitor found them the most moving sight in his former home, evoking powerful images of a man...

Washington-A blanket taught Frances Varos Graves a new way to sew. Today, the 84-year-old Graves is regarded as a national expert on "colchas," intricately embroidered wool blankets that are part...

And on the seventh day, God created the Caribbean. I am contemplating this divine creation of His from the back of Big Beard's Renegade, a 42-foot, glass-bottom catamaran. Capt. Morris...

The year-end statements that mortgage lenders send to homeowners in January are an unpleasant reminder of how much interest-and how little principal-we have paid out over the last 12 months....

When you're buying a house, it's a good idea to make the contract contingent on a home inspection. The reason, as any homeowner knows, is that many, many things can...