A father returned to his central Michigan home late Monday to find his wife and two sons dead, police say, and the horrific scene shows the signs of a murder-suicide.
When Brian Gavitt, a physician, and his wife Gayleen, a stay-at-home mom, started to eye homes in Sacramento last winter, they knew they were looking in the hardest-hit areas of the housing bust. So the couple, who were relocating from Lansing, figured they could land a fantastic bargain in no time at all.
College students have volunteered at food pantries for years. But as buying each meal gets pricier, a growing number are finding themselves on the other side of the counter
Single-family home prices dropped 7.7% in the first quarter in the largest year-over-year decline since the National Association of Realtors began reporting prices in 1982.
How well do you and your siblings deal with conflict? Brenda Bredahl, 47, says that after her mother died in 1999 she and two of her siblings had to rely on the legal system to help negotiate with a brother over their mother's estate.
Severe storms with heavy rains, high winds and lightning swept across the Midwest to the East Coast on Sunday, flooding towns from Iowa to Michigan, threatening levees and leaving at least eight people dead.
Authorities captured a man Thursday who is accused of shooting a police chief, grazing a deputy and retreating into a house that was soon surrounded by officers
Dear FSB: I was reading your article Overtime Bomb and I have a question: We're a paving contractor company that does jobs throughout Southern California. Every day our drivers go to and from various jobsites and we pay them straight time for the travel portion. They receive time-and-a-half for the time over 8 hours a day and/or over 40 hours a week while on the job site; however the drive time does not count for OT - so, a driver can get paid for 50 hours straight-time only. We have done this for 20 years. I have never questioned or been questioned on whether it is legal or not. Is it?
Home prices continued their plunge during the last three months of 2007, setting a real estate trade group's record for the biggest-ever quarterly drop.
A father returned to his central Michigan home late Monday to find his wife and two sons dead, police say, and the horrific scene shows the signs of a murder-suicide.
When Brian Gavitt, a physician, and his wife Gayleen, a stay-at-home mom, started to eye homes in Sacramento last winter, they knew they were looking in the hardest-hit areas of the housing bust. So the couple, who were relocating from Lansing, figured they could land a fantastic bargain in no time at all.
College students have volunteered at food pantries for years. But as buying each meal gets pricier, a growing number are finding themselves on the other side of the counter
Single-family home prices dropped 7.7% in the first quarter in the largest year-over-year decline since the National Association of Realtors began reporting prices in 1982.
How well do you and your siblings deal with conflict? Brenda Bredahl, 47, says that after her mother died in 1999 she and two of her siblings had to rely on the legal system to help negotiate with a brother over their mother's estate.
Severe storms with heavy rains, high winds and lightning swept across the Midwest to the East Coast on Sunday, flooding towns from Iowa to Michigan, threatening levees and leaving at least eight people dead.
Authorities captured a man Thursday who is accused of shooting a police chief, grazing a deputy and retreating into a house that was soon surrounded by officers
Dear FSB: I was reading your article Overtime Bomb and I have a question: We're a paving contractor company that does jobs throughout Southern California. Every day our drivers go to and from various jobsites and we pay them straight time for the travel portion. They receive time-and-a-half for the time over 8 hours a day and/or over 40 hours a week while on the job site; however the drive time does not count for OT - so, a driver can get paid for 50 hours straight-time only. We have done this for 20 years. I have never questioned or been questioned on whether it is legal or not. Is it?
Home prices continued their plunge during the last three months of 2007, setting a real estate trade group's record for the biggest-ever quarterly drop.
A lethal storm system buffeted the East Coast on Friday after generating deadly tornadoes, lightning and large hail from Canada to the Gulf Coast the day and night before.
General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers still faced significant hurdles at the bargaining table Sunday despite making progress at negotiations a day earlier.
A prison parolee and sex offender is the man suspected of killing five women in the city in a little more than a month, and he could face charges in a sixth death from 2004, authorities said Friday.
A suspected serial killer has been arrested in the deaths of five women in Lansing, Michigan, and an assault on a sixth whose dog ran the attacker off, police said.
Julie Bryan had owned her coffee shop in Raleigh for about a month when she started getting letters from the North Carolina Poster Service. They came in brown envelopes with official-looking emblem...
Elk Grove, Calif., is the fastest growing city of more than 100,000 in the United States, according to the latest estimates from the Census Bureau released Wednesday.
Indianapolis was the leader among all major U.S. cities for housing affordability during the first quarter of 2006, according to the latest figures from the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo.
I am currently renting, but have been looking for the last six months or so to buy my first home. But I'm concerned that we're beginning to see a "sellers market" where I live, which, combined with the auto industry's problems, could hurt my resale value if I were to move in three to five years. Would I be better off renting for another year to see how things shape up?
This May the Supreme Court struck down laws banning direct-to-consumer shipments across state lines by wineries. The court held that Michigan and New York can't bar out-of-state winemakers from shi...
He worked as a commercial diver, retrieving cement samples for Seatec International hundreds of feet beneath the often turbulent South China Sea. It was a risky job, but the pay was good, and "it w...
Holiday travelers were stuck with long waits for flights at several major airports Wednesday as severe weather hit the eastern half of the United States.
Stolen credit cards, computer crashes, lawsuits--oh my!--any of these things leave an e-commerce site vulnerable to unexpected financial hardship. Protecting your slice of cyberspace from ruin is n...
The Ivy League degree, the Harvard MBA, and the fast-track management-training program are all useful accouterments. But what does a powerful woman need most? A larger-than-life mother. When we ask...
To anyone with a sense of traditional career paths, Carly Fiorina's chance of becoming the most powerful woman in American business would have seemed about as good as, well, a guy's. In college, wh...
Back in the stressful Sixties, ''Tell it like it is!'' was the banner and byword of rebellious youth. Now those kids have grown up. They live in the White House. They dominate the political establi...
Your December article on mortgage refinancing stated that replacing a 30-year loan with a 15-year loan can produce dramatic savings. That is not necessarily true. You reported that if Mr. and Mrs. ...
LANSING, MICH. -- Republicans can't wait to get their hands on an upcoming book by the ex-wife of Democratic Governor James Blanchard. Nervous Democrats wish they could put it on hold until after t...
The one rub of life insurance, at least from a selfish point of view, is that by the time the policy pays off, the policyholder is no longer around to enjoy it. Sure, you can borrow against its cas...
Christmas was not very merry for television stations across the U.S. The nation's three major networks, all under frugal new management, are threatening to reduce the millions of dollars they pay a...
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