Here are some safety suggestions for people who encounter cougars:
Some facts about the cougar, also known as mountain lion, puma, panther and catamount:
Anna Lashley can't forget her surprise when she looked out her kitchen window three years ago just south of Milwaukee and spotted what she believes was a cougar.
Life in tent No. 16 is one of hardship, fear and mourning, but Rita Tichetti and her family feel lucky to be alive.
A new line of housewares and furniture bearing the name of Country Living magazine will debut at Sears and Kmart stores this fall, executives said Monday.
Catering to baby boomers and seniors who've lost savings during the recession, retirement-housing designers and developers are shifting to smaller homes that are more energy efficient and maximize space.
From a one-time $250 payment to a 50 percent increase in the limits for reverse mortgages, there are some housing-related items in President Barack Obama's stimulus plan that potentially can help seniors maneuver through difficult economic times.
For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.
Photos dangled from the charred ceiling, paintings decorated soot-stained walls. Red shards from the shattered roof lined pathways cleared through broken glass.
Picture a neighborhood where doors can be left unlocked, where 20 families gather to eat in a common home twice a week, where solar panels help heat homes, where everyone relies on each other and determines the fate of the community together.
After back-to-back hospital visits for congestive heart failure, Eva Olweean figured her health was back to normal. But the nurses at her retirement home knew better: Motion sensors in the 86-year-old's bed detected too many restless nights.
A Japanese tourist who spent three months living in Mexico City's airport has returned home.
The safety net is almost gone, the nest egg is cracking.
There are countless personal finance books that advise readers on budgeting, investing and paying down debt. Few leave the tips aside and ask you to question your relationship with money and the reasons you spend what you do.
Oh, what a difference a bath can make.
Attention retirees, smaller cities throughout the South want you.
Hiroshi Nohara is on a layover at the Mexico City airport. It has lasted almost three months, and he has no plans to leave.
Ski season's coming, and with it the traditional flurry of sales in second-home markets in mountain resort towns in the West.
The fishermen were hauling in the first net of the morning when the tiger pounced.
When this campaign ends, after future presidents have come and gone, and when today's young people are grown old, history will remember Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as the day a black man became the presidential nominee of a major party.
A woman was cleared of all charges Monday in the shooting of a commune founder nearly killed by a shadowy figure on the stairwell of his compound.
Damien Barilko, co-founder of the Paris electric bike company Velocito, said sky-high gas prices have finally succeeded where environmentalists and governments have failed: persuading motorists to go green.
The distinguished voice on the radio advertisement pitching reverse mortgages has a familiar ring: Yes, that's James Garner, the venerable television and film actor.
