Frank Lucas, at 77 years old and in a wheelchair, still has a small gang doting on him. Sons, publicists and friends swirl around Lucas in nearly perpetual commotion, fetching him everything from pills to a cooling fan. A recent visitor is directed kindly —...

Like a good Bordeaux or Chianti, some chocolate comes from a particular place _ the Indonesian island of Java or Venezuela's Sur del Lago, for example. As with wine grapes, the source of cacao beans is supposed to result in distinct flavors and aromas.Chocolate from...

Tanith Belbin overcame a wardrobe malfunction Thursday, untangling herself from a torn dress and going on to win the original dance at Four Continents with partner Benjamin Agosto.The bottom of Belbin's black with red trim knee-length dress caught her left skate in the middle of...

The nation's more than $2 trillion home mortgage business won't halt its current slide anytime soon, with mortgage originations expected to fall 18 percent next year and decline another 6 percent in 2009, the Mortgage Bankers Association predicts.And although a forecast to be released Wednesday...