22 hours ago - By Delphine Matthieussent, AP Writer
Hotels in northern Israel sent guests packing. Hospitals moved patients to the basement. Schools shut down. And residents of Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, were warned to stay near bomb shelters. Complete Story
Jul 11 - By Dan Scheraga, AP Business Writer
Joanie Edelberg has read more than three dozen dating self-help books, and she keeps them lined up on two bookshelves in her home. But despite her extensive research into the intricacies of dating and the best intentions of her friends who tried to set her up with available men, her dating life was still stuck in neutral.
Jul 5 - By Madlen Read, AP Business Writer
For 20 years, Martha Fitts drove 16 miles to and from work every day, guzzling, in total, about 6,000 gallons of gasoline. At today's prices, that's worth nearly $18,000.
Jun 7 - By Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
The best evidence yet for the oldest life on Earth is found in odd-shaped, rock-like mounds in Australia that are actually fossils created by microbes 3.4 billion years ago, researchers report.
May 30 - By Lauren Villagran, AP Business Writer
Instead of a conventional hospital birth, Heidi Teeple and her husband Rod brought baby Logan into the world while soaking together in a freestanding tub of warm water in their living room, with a fire in the fireplace and two midwives at their side.
May 27 - By Eric Talmadge, AP Writer
Shinji Ishihara's story, as he tells it, starts with a murder.
May 23 - By Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Business Writer
Instead of a conventional hospital birth, Heidi Teeple and her husband Rod brought baby Logan into the world while soaking together in a freestanding tub of warm water in their living room, with a fire in the fireplace and two midwives at their side.
May 16 - By Anick Jesdanun, AP Internet Writer
Higher interest rates initially drove Nick Sayers to the Bank of Internet. But he soon realized it's more convenient, too.
May 16 - By Karin Laub, AP Writer
He's overdrawn at the bank, owes $400 to the grocery, can no longer afford baby formula for his youngest and is trying to sell his 16-year-old car for half its value to raise cash for food.
May 10 - By Associated Press
In a May 9 story about the Internet's effect on analog photography, The Associated Press reported erroneously that photographer Michael A. Smith prints most of his work on Azo photo paper. He prints all of his work on Azo.
May 9 - By Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
With its market eviscerated by digital photography, Eastman Kodak Co. last year stopped making black-and-white photo paper.
May 8 - By Associated Press
A once-prominent doctor who allegedly killed his wife after she discovered his secret sex life has lost his bid for a new trial.
May 3 - By Theresa Agovino, AP Business Writer
In a May 2 version of this story, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Donor Egg Bank gives a woman a batch of free frozen donor eggs if none of the eggs she purchased survive the thaw. The recipient receives the free eggs if there is no live birth.
May 3 - By Associated Press
In a May 2 story about pregnancies using frozen donor eggs, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Donor Egg Bank gives a woman a batch of free frozen donor eggs if none of the eggs she purchased survive the thaw. The recipient receives the free eggs if there is no live birth.
May 2 - By Theresa Agovino, AP Business Writer
Avery Lee Kennedy isn't just a cute four-month-old. She may be the embodiment of a new avenue in fertility treatments.
Apr 29 - By Steven Gutkin, AP Writer
Ayman Shurasi invested his life savings in an amusement park for Gaza's children, replete with "flying" elephants, bumper cars and a smiling Thomas the Tank Engine.
Apr 25 - By Dave Carpenter, AP Business Writer
Mary Ann Smaby didn't get much formal advice on what to do with her life when she was a teenager and she wasn't inclined to ask for it. Career planning? That waited until well into college.
Apr 18 - By Aleksandrs Rozens, AP Business Writer
Pete Montero first listed his Ann Arbor, Mich., nearly a year ago at $379,000. The 2,600-square-foot home didn't attr'act buyers so Montero dropped the price in $10,000 increments — he's now asking $329,900 — and he's even considered remodeling the kitchen.
Apr 18 - By Associated Press
British life-insurer Standard Life Assurance Co. revealed Tuesday it recently rebuffed takeover approaches from a number of suitors and said it is pushing ahead with a planned IPO that could value it as high as 5.5 billion pounds ($9.7 billion).
Apr 12 - By Alessandra Rizzo, AP Writer
With only a two-seat majority in the Senate, a government by center-left leader Romano Prodi may have to rely on seven legislators appointed senators for life — a group that includes a Nobel Prize winner and a former seven-time premier — to ensure its survival.
Apr 11 - By Eileen Alt Powell, AP Business Writer
As the U.S. population ages, the elderly are becoming a prime target for financial abuse.
Apr 4 - By Ellen Simon, AP Business Writer
Bruce Morgan knew he was in for a long job search. Morgan has a strong resume and a Masters of Business Administration, but he also has cerebral palsy, which affects his speech. After his company, Nabisco, was bought by Kraft Foods Inc., his 25-person department was laid off on the same day in 2004.
Mar 28 - By Adam Geller, AP Business Writer
For years, Art Thomas sifted through the stories and rumors traded among relatives and he wondered: Exactly where did I come from?
Mar 25 - By
New cracks appear in Elke DeMuynck's ceiling every few weeks, zigzagging across her living room, creeping toward the fireplace, veering down the wall. Month after month, year after year, she patches, paints and waits.
Mar 25 - By Michael Kunzelman, AP Writer
Gus McKay slides out of bed at dawn, tiptoes across his family's government-issued trailer and slips into the bathroom, slowly turning the doorknob so he doesn't wake his two teenage daughters in the adjoining room.
Log In | Register
Feeds 
