Way before “Disney on Ice†there was a show featuring live actors and costumed characters called “Disney on Parade.†My family went to see it at the Scope Arena in Norfolk, Va., in 1972 when I was 8, and I remember it like it was yesterday. It was incredible to see Snow White and the [...]
By Mark Sievers Giving money to heirs is very confusing this year. First, realize that the tax on giving money to heirs is a transfer tax, not an income tax. Unless Congress acts, there is no estate tax at all this year, but next year everything over $1,000,000 will be subject to as much as [...]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — It sounded like a great idea three months ago: Hand homeowners a $6,500 tax credit to find a new place to live, giving a thrust of energy to the housing market’s recovery. So far, people are staying put. In November, the federal government extended a tax credit of up to [...]
AP Technology Writer SEATTLE — Dell Inc. hopes to expand a key part of its business through a deal to sell computer hardware and technology consulting to medical practices that want to use new electronic medical records and related services from the American Medical Association. Dell’s announcement was timed for today’s start of the annual [...]
Associated Press Writer KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber targeted NATO forces today outside the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing four civilians, the Interior Ministry said. It was not immediately known if there were any NATO casualties. The attacker waited in a station-wagon taxi near a bridge between the airport and city [...]
Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES — For two decades, Los Angeles built libraries with a vigor rarely seen in the nation, spending $335 million to get books and computers within the reach of those who might not otherwise have them. Now, it’s getter harder to get inside the buildings. A hobbled economy has left the [...]
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — Lil Wayne may be a self-professed gangsta with the gunshot wound to prove it, but he’s made plenty clear how he feels about doing time behind bars. “I’d rather be pushin’ flowers,†he raps in 2008′s “A Milli,†“than to be in the pen sharin’ showers.†He might have [...]
Associated Press Writer HOUSTON — It’s a 28-word word law that federal prosecutors have used for more than two decades to send high-profile public officials and corporate executives, including former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling, to prison. But the law’s future could be in doubt as Skilling’s appeal of his criminal convictions — in which [...]
AP Medical Writer CHICAGO — One in four U.S. parents believes some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about vaccine risks think their children should be vaccinated. Most parents continue to follow the advice of their children’s doctors, according to a study based on a survey of 1,552 parents. [...]
AP Medical Writer CHICAGO — The odds of obesity appear stacked against black and Hispanic children starting even before birth, provocative new research suggests. The findings help explain disproportionately high obesity rates in minority children. Family income is often a factor, but so are cultural customs and beliefs, the study authors said. They examined more [...]
Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO — A registered sex offender was arrested Sunday in the disappearance of a suburban San Diego teenager as some 1,400 volunteers spent the weekend searching a park and surrounding area where she disappeared three days ago, authorities said. The arrest came after about 120 law enforcement officers and the volunteers [...]
Associated Press Writer HONOLULU — The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that “urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.†But the devastating tidal surge predicted after Chile’s magnitude 8.8-earthquake [...]
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