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By early next year, a new improved mortgage will be available from a number of lenders, featuring a 5 percent down payment and interest-only payments in the first year. You...

Pleas for world peace come in many forms. Rita Wesseling's 5th-graders at St. Augustine Elementary School in Covington are making theirs with sheets of paper folded to resemble cranes. The...

If the Elm Research Institute gets its way, our streets will never again be lined with elm trees the way they were before Dutch Elm Disease. Although such a goal...

All Bill Appleton wanted to do was create a movie similar to "The Terminator" using only his desktop computer. While that might seem like an impossible task to almost everyone...

Is it television "Homicide" or dramatic suicide? Followers of NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" (and there are relatively few, according to Nielsen ratings) have seen the Friday night series...

Two-thirds of Democrats want someone in their party to challenge President Clinton for renomination, a national poll reported Wednesday. The non-partisan survey found the reasons had more to do with...

When Whitney Gaar stopped walking and started pulling herself to the bathroom on her hands and stomach, her mother panicked. Although there was nothing physically wrong with Whitney's legs, she...

Back in 1978, the plan was to bring Holy Cross into the Big East Conference. It was going to be an opportunity to transform regional success into national recognition. Such...

A newly formed company here is capitalizing on the opportunities created by the changing health-care industry. Community Care of America Inc. is a provider of high-quality, low-cost non-acute health-care services...

As far as upholstery fabrics are concerned, things have never been better. Anything goes. Should it be dressy or casual, sloppy or pristine, the look is up to you. It's...