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First Interstate Bancorp of Los Angeles announced Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by First Bank System of Minneapolis for a record $10.3 billion, creating the nation's first...

If you wonder how much sun damages your skin, try this: Hold your inner arm, which rarely is exposed to the sun, against your face. Then compare. It proves sunlight...

Beaver Cleaver did not spend all his money on booze and broads. And he hasn't posed for any adult magazines or starred in any X-rated adult films--but there have been...

Americans move, on average, once every 11.8 years, according to an analysis of housing turnover rates in 1994. That was faster than in either 1993 or 1992, when the average...

Louisiana State basketball coach Dale Brown realizes all his rowdy Southeastern Conference coaching friends have moved on. Ten years ago, there weren't many comedy acts better than an SEC basketball...

From Albuquerque to Wyoming, old Ford pickups are falling prey to a car-theft ring operating out of southern Chihuahua, Mexico. The ring is targeting late 1970s and early 1980s Ford...

When Harriet Davis turned 65, she decided she needed more coverage for medical bills than the federal Medicare program would pay. "I wanted to protect myself," she says. So Davis...

Four central Colorado counties plan to safeguard their thriving economies by fighting the abandonment of a historic rail line. The Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads expect to merge by...

Why would the St. Louis Cardinals make it known they are planning up to $6 million in improvements in Busch Stadium, then hire Tony La Russa to manage at the...

Before Carolyn Fineran and her husband Robert Lindig bought a house they called a specialist to determine if it had good flow and positive energy--feng shui. Dominque Fratkin, a Boulder,...