As the holiday shopping season winds down, local and federal statistics show that reported incidents of shoplifting have increased this year. ...more

December 27, 2008

As the holiday shopping season winds down, local and federal statistics show that reported incidents of shoplifting have increased this year. ...more

December 26, 2008

Teen motherhood has gained a bit of celebrity allure with the pregnancies of Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin, but front-line professionals see a starkly different reality involving poverty, lost opportunities and a cost to taxpayers in the billions of dollars annually. ...more

October 24, 2008

The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

Mortgage brokers who haven't fled the industry or been forced out are in survival mode. ...more

February 1, 2008

For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation's unique status among industrialized countries. ...more

December 25, 2007

Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an Arizona swimming pool. Jayden Cangro, also 2, died after being thrown across a room in Utah. ...more

November 18, 2007