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Family Holidays have three children. My will and my living trust state that everything goes to them. My son recently told me that he and his wife of eight years are separating. They are not getting a divorce. Is she entitled to half of my son’s inheritance when I pass away? My stocks and money [...]

Prison Talk, a big board with nearly 150,000 members and 2,500 regular readers a day, is a case in point. It caters to what turns out to be an underserved consumer niche: family and friends of the incarcerated. Prison inmates, whose Internet access is extremely limited, also turn up periodically, usually seeking pen pals [...]

Giovanina Sabataso was quite the cook. So much so that her legacy and that of her husband, Giuseppi, continues to be carried on some 75 years later.
It was Palm Sunday 1933 when the Sabatasos opened The Palms Restaurant on Strongs Avenue. Today the landmark restaurant operates under the stewardship of another generation of Sabatasos, who [...]

His death was announced by State Senator Karen Johnson, who was his aide while he was governor. He had Alzheimer%26#8217;s disease for years and was at the Arizona State Veteran Home in Phoenix until recent weeks, when he went into hospice care. Mr. Mecham (pronounced MEE-kam), who always attributed his downfall to political [...]

The long anticipated deal between the Mountain West Conference’s niche TV network the mtn. and satellite carrier DirecTV is awaiting final signature.
The breakthrough was announced Thursday by San Diego State athletic director Jeff Schemmel. Hayne Ellis, manager of public relations for the Centennial-based studio, confirmed an agreement has been reached and an [...]

What did your child do at nursery today? Dressing up? Messing around in the sandpit? Perhaps baking fairy cakes? Or was he or she learning to read and write?Under new government guidelines for early-years education, three- and four-year-olds should be taught to “form simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation”, and write in different forms such as [...]

Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — On a sweltering day in September 2006,
almost a year before the collapse of the housing market and the
ensuing credit crunch, Paul Singer, the founder of hedge fund firm
Elliott Associates LP, took the podium at a New York financial
conference to [...]

‘There was a lot of tension but there were 31 police officers and hundreds of us from the community. Eventually they just left,’ she recalls with satisfaction.With sporadic running water and electricity and scant services, the barrio would often erupt into violent protests. ‘It has always been a revolutionary neighbourhood,’ Rodriquez says. ‘I became an [...]

The nature of that change is as mercurial as Cuba itself: where strident communist doctrine and tropical hedonism cohabit, where the superficial impression of quick-hit, sensual exotica (beloved by the ubiquitous tourists) belies canny preparations for Castro’s death, and hides those yearning for transformation out of the country’s hardships.The more President George Bush denounces Cuba, [...]

When were you happiest? When Peta picked me to be on their first Times Square anti-fur billboard.What is your earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.Which living person do you most admire, and why? Brigitte Bardot for defending animals and not caring what people say.What is the trait you most deplore [...]