WWII vet reminisces on how sports help him cope with the dangers of war.
A courthouse in Coral Gables, Florida, was evacuated Thursday afternoon after several employees reported feeling ill, fire officials said.
Laura Dominguez-Vasquez and her husband, Luis, recently sold their Coral Gables, Fla., home to all-cash buyers for just under $1 million. They're now shopping for a new home and intend to pay cash as well.
A Florida high school student was killed Tuesday by another student during an altercation at the school, officials said.
People gather near the site of a stabbing at a Florida high school. (No audio)
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Defensive back Ryan Hill and safety Vaughn Telemaque will not play for Miami on Monday night when the Hurricanes open the season at No. 18 Florida State.
The economy may have pulled out of its plunge, but you'd never know by a look at many big banks.
Father Alberto Cutié and his girlfriend say "I do" at a local courthouse
The Dancing with the Stars winner faces jail time if he's convicted
Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and "Dancing With the Stars" champion Helio Castronoves was set to appear in court Friday to face allegations he used offshore accounts to hide millions of dollars in income from the Internal Revenue Service
In our new feature, "Website remedies," Fortune Small Business enlists Web marketing and search-engine optimization specialists to analyze small-business Web sites in need of an overhaul. Could your site use a makeover? E-mail us at fsb_mail@timeinc.com. Plus, share your tips for improving our featured sites in our discussion forum.
Worst month for stocks since the Great Depression. A bear market. Oil blows past $140. These are the times that try long-term investors' souls.
Dear FSB: I own three rental properties, and am trying to hang on to them as the real estate market is bad here. Each month I have to pay out of pocket to cover the mortgage. Can I claim this loss on my taxes - and is there a limit?
These are trying times for talent scouts. Not long ago, a classic "bird-dog" like Jerry Krause could make a stealth trip to central Arkansas, find a versatile swingman and acquire him before other teams had ever seen the guy play. Imagine the equivalent of Scottie Pippen today: His first-triple would be posted on You Tube before sunrise. By which time, some scouting service would have posted his seventh-grade stats on a Web site.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- The whole high school-to-college thing seemed pretty easy to Marcus Forston. The defensive tackle left Miami Northwestern High in December and enrolled at the University of Miami in January, but he never had to leave his comfort zone. When he walked into the Hurricanes locker room for the first time, Forston found his locker alongside the lockers of former Northwestern teammates Jacory Harris, Aldarius Johnson and Sean Spence.
The NFL star's murder is the latest in a string of violent incidents involving former University of Miami players. Is the school's "thug-ball" reputation to blame?
The Web is an essential tool for travelers, but as booking engines and trip forums evolve and multiply, you have to know where to look -- and whom to trust. To help you, Travel + Leisure has assembled the ultimate online guide.
Chastened by the 2000-02 crash, the mutual fund industry has morphed into a 401(k) bureaucracy, cranking out bland diversified funds and packaging them into "life cycle" portfolios that you don't have to think much about.
Money Magazine: Afford the Care You Needupdated: Sun Oct 01 2006 00:01:00
Perhaps the only thing scarier than the possibility of needing long-term health care is the prospect of not being able to pay for it. With the average annual cost of nursing-home care in the U.S. p...
Move No. 1: Lock in a fixed-rate mortgage.
Money Magazine: Stocksupdated: Sat Oct 01 2005 00:01:00
TAX STRATEGY
Burger King is seeing strong sales gains and could have an initial public offering within the next year, according to a published report.
So does that 1999 way of getting rich, the stock market, matter anymore? Yes, but definitely not as a quick way to wealth.
Money Magazine: Pimco: Hot commodityupdated: Wed Oct 13 2004 17:35:00
Never mind nanotech or biotech or Web-search IPOs. These days big money is being made on hogs, heifers and heating fuel.
When I reported in this column September 20 that there is "strong feeling" in the "Bush administration policymaking apparatus" that "U.S. troops must leave Iraq next year," Republican politicians -- most recently Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman -- disagreed. But Don Rumsfeld has not contradicted me.
John Kerry and President Bush, packing their own pencils and wearing their own makeup, will shake hands at 9:02 p.m. ET and then scoot promptly back to their 50-inch-tall podiums, 10 feet apart, in an auditorium with a temperature controlled "according to industry standard." They're not allowed, under any circumstances, to touch each other again.
CNNMoney: Fair playupdated: Tue Jun 15 2004 16:26:00
In her 12 years as a paralegal, Marlene Foth of Concord Township, Ohio had heard more than her fair share of horror stories featuring families devastated by inadequate estate planning.
Home prices are high and interest rates are low. So why not supersize your mortgage (or tack on a hefty home-equity loan) to get the house of your dreams?
Modest. As some of the country's biggest market watchers--people like Bill Miller, Robert Shiller and Roger Ibbotson--gather fundamental data to predict future equity returns, that's the word they'...
Picking funds has always been a bit like dancing on a tightrope--without a net. Just ask anyone who bought a Janus fund during the red-hot first quarter of 2000. In those three short months investo...
Q. I'm thinking of investing in stocks that Standard & Poor's plans to add to one of its indexes, such as the S&P 500. I'd like to take advantage of the so-called index effect--the anticipated upti...
Mutual funds or individual stocks? Investors often wonder which they should use to build an investment portfolio. But it doesn't have to be an either/or proposition, particularly now that the Inter...
Companies love telling you they're No. 1. So it's no surprise that American Express Financial Advisors has a new ad celebrating Nannette Nocon, a Rochester, N.Y. AmEx adviser who was named 1997's t...
Money Magazine: Is Real Estate For You?updated: Sat Aug 01 1998 00:01:00
When deciding whether to invest in REITs, or any real estate, you might conclude that since half or more of your "portfolio" is your house, you're already overexposed. After all, that's a real esta...
Ah, retirement. no deadlines, no mandates, nothing to obsess over. Well, except for your mutual funds. After all, your portfolio has to be managed, right? And it has to be managed right, right? And...
By this stage in your investing career, you have undoubtedly heard the pitch for those endearingly complex insurance-company-sponsored contraptions called tax-deferred annuities. The devices work s...
The tax bell tolleth for us all, and nobody likes its tune. Fund investors in particular may find the notes sound more sour than usual, as the staggering market of the past two years produces equal...
THIS MONTH: --Major moves at two of our fallen angels --How troubled Fidelity is shifting gears
Although people often assume otherwise, after you retire you should not change your investment goals much. Your main concern must remain increasing your nest egg so that inflation doesn't scramble ...
Did you forget to reclaim the utility deposit from the first apartment you ever rented? Or perhaps your dearly departed mother left behind a savings account that she forgot to declare in her will. ...
These agents offer shipboard experience plus deals costing 20% to 60% less than list prices. For an outfit near you, write the National Association of Cruise Only Agencies, 3191 Coral Way, Suite 63...
It's standard fund-picking advice: Seek maximum gains at minimum risk. Such an approach often leads equity investors to dollar-cost average into funds known at least as much for their methodical mi...
LIKE ALL NEW PARENTS, THE REYES of Coral Gables, Fla. have big plans for their newborn. Among them: The couple want three-month-old Sarah Isabel to have her pick of colleges when the time comes, re...
Trying to figure out whether your home's value is about to rise or fall can be devilishly confusing these days. First, the National Association of Realtors suggested that boom times were back, repo...
One of the most popular life insurance features these days is called an accelerated death benefit, or ADB. More than 1.1 million policyholders % -- nearly eight times the 1990 total -- now own whol...
Whether they choose to live in the suburbs or the city, blacks often pay steep financial and quality-of-life costs that whites do not. Two examples: Larry Tucker, 47, and his wife Gwendolyn, 42, we...
Money Magazine: TAX SIMPLIFICATION updated: Mon May 01 1989 00:01:00
As your March issue illustrates in ''The Pros Flunk Our New Tax-Return Test,'' income taxes are hideously complicated. My simple solution: require all congressmen to prepare their own tax returns, ...
PRIDE FORETOLD the fall. But Nolan Bushnell, the exuberant Silicon Valley entrepreneur, was too pumped up to notice that summer day in 1983. He had just swept across the finish line first after a g...
To entice house buyers to take out adjustable-rate mortgages, lenders are offering the option of converting to fixed rates any month from the second year through the fifth of the loan. For example,...
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