AWOL tampons, gas, losing your breakfast on the doc? To prove that you are so not alone when it comes to mortifying health mishaps, Health readers shared some of their stories with us. And our own medical editor, Roshini Rajapaksa, MD, weighs in on when you really do need to talk to your doctor about an embarrassing episode or symptom.
New Mexico authorities have identified seven of 11 slain women whose remains were discovered several months ago in shallow graves in west Albuquerque, but have yet to identify a suspect in their killings, police told CNN on Thursday.
Question: What is the most aggressive asset allocation that a 70-year-old retiree should have? --Martin Reynoso, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The two federal agencies most responsible for stemming the flow of firearms to Mexico agreed Tuesday to improve cooperation after they were sharply criticized by a congressional report for lack of coordination.
The White House unveiled a strategy to combat rising drug crimes along the border Friday, vowing to curb the flow of narcotics and weapons that has been endangering more and more U.S. communities.
In the midst of a struggling economy, the Small Business Administration is hoping to create jobs and generate wealth in hard-hit urban communities by boosting small-business growth through its Emerging 200 initiative.
A 23-year-old woman suffocated her son and then buried his body beneath the sand of a playground, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said Thursday.
Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, released a composite image Tuesday of a young boy found buried beneath the sand of a local playground.
A New Mexico man has admitted to sending threatening letters filled with white powder to dozens of banks in 2008 out of what federal agents said was anger over his losses in a failed bank.
Question: I've just received the statement for my workplace retirement savings account -- 99% of which is invested in an S&P 500 index fund -- and it shows a loss of 37.5% for 2008. I'm 60, make about $100,000 and I was hoping to retire next year. What immediate next step should I be taking to recover my account value? --Benjamin, Albuquerque, New Mexico
AWOL tampons, gas, losing your breakfast on the doc? To prove that you are so not alone when it comes to mortifying health mishaps, Health readers shared some of their stories with us. And our own medical editor, Roshini Rajapaksa, MD, weighs in on when you really do need to talk to your doctor about an embarrassing episode or symptom.
New Mexico authorities have identified seven of 11 slain women whose remains were discovered several months ago in shallow graves in west Albuquerque, but have yet to identify a suspect in their killings, police told CNN on Thursday.
Question: What is the most aggressive asset allocation that a 70-year-old retiree should have? --Martin Reynoso, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The two federal agencies most responsible for stemming the flow of firearms to Mexico agreed Tuesday to improve cooperation after they were sharply criticized by a congressional report for lack of coordination.
The White House unveiled a strategy to combat rising drug crimes along the border Friday, vowing to curb the flow of narcotics and weapons that has been endangering more and more U.S. communities.
In the midst of a struggling economy, the Small Business Administration is hoping to create jobs and generate wealth in hard-hit urban communities by boosting small-business growth through its Emerging 200 initiative.
A 23-year-old woman suffocated her son and then buried his body beneath the sand of a playground, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said Thursday.
Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, released a composite image Tuesday of a young boy found buried beneath the sand of a local playground.
A New Mexico man has admitted to sending threatening letters filled with white powder to dozens of banks in 2008 out of what federal agents said was anger over his losses in a failed bank.
Question: I've just received the statement for my workplace retirement savings account -- 99% of which is invested in an S&P 500 index fund -- and it shows a loss of 37.5% for 2008. I'm 60, make about $100,000 and I was hoping to retire next year. What immediate next step should I be taking to recover my account value? --Benjamin, Albuquerque, New Mexico
With the West posting the highest regional rate of unemployment, at 8 percent, according to the latest government figures, people living there are hurting to find employers willing to take them in.
Another body was found in the same 92-acre parcel west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the remains of 10 other people have been discovered, police said Thursday.
Three more bodies and a fetus have been discovered west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where six bodies were unearthed earlier this month, police said Tuesday.
Police digging for clues in the deaths of six people found in the New Mexico desert hope the identification of one set of bones will generate leads.
The man arrested in the mailing of 65 threatening letters to banks and federal offices apparently had been irate about losing thousands of dollars in stock when a bank failed, a criminal complaint states.
"High School Musical 3: Senior Year" gives you an honest jolt of feel-good fizz. It may be as friendly and square as one of those 1950s teen romps in which the actors wore letter sweaters, but that doesn't mean the movie is an uptight anachronism.
What grumpy gramps thinks of the latest installment (but first big-screen movie) in Disney's HSM franchise
Police in Albuquerque find out how intoxicating elections and early voting can be
A witness says a balloon basket has caught on fire, separated from the rest of the balloon and crashed at Albuquerque's annual hot-air balloon fiesta
A TIME correspondent actually had a good recent experience flying commercial -- even if others had to suffer in the process
Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states
Working in secret, federal archaeologists have dug up the remains of dozens of soldiers and children near a Civil War-era fort after an informant tipped them off about widespread grave-looting
Dear FSB: In a previous question you addressed charitable contributions. Here is my issue: if an artist donates a piece of their art to a museum, can he take the deduction at cost plus 50% of fair market value?
If every accident report filed with insurance agencies were true, America's roads would be a wild freak show of deer large enough to span four lanes and rockslides that toss boulders and trees into the path of traffic about every five minutes.
We floated over the Rio Grande and skirted the tops of green cottonwood trees with the Sandia Mountains in the distance while school kids pointed and waved at us. We waved back.
Marry me, Sue!" We've just pulled into the parking lot of Albuquerque's Jefferson Commons call center, home to 800 T-Mobile USA customer-service representatives, and outside there's mayhem. Hundreds of screaming, chanting people are standing in front of the building, bedecked in a wild array of hot-pink clothing (T-Mobile's signature color) ranging from T-shirts to cowboy hats to feather boas. They're waving signs, holding up camera phones, and generally acting like starstruck teenagers. One guy's wearing a fuchsia bathrobe; another, in a fluorescent-pink wig, is screaming, "We love you!" over and over.
With consumers screaming about abuses, more than 30 states have enacted laws banning gift cards and certificates with short expiration periods and requiring issuers to turn over cash from expired cards to the state. Eight states have added such laws in 2007 alone.
Steve Chavez is willing to go to extremes to combat rising health care costs. The president of Integrated Control Systems, a 180-employee Albuquerque construction firm, Chavez has watched costs for...
It's 7:30 P.M. on a Saturday, and the front door of a Victorian house in Oakland, California, is wide open. The owner of the home directs arrivals through the kitchen -- where Louisiana shrimp stock simmers on the stove and delicate tomato-and-white-corn tarts are being assembled on a tiled table -- and out to the backyard. Guests are gathering under a canopy of trees, sitting on the colorful cushions that surround the low tables.
The expansive swimming pool out back of the Palms hotel and casino in Las Vegas is as curved and shallow as the young women who are layered around its edges on a warm Saturday in October. One by one they swivel their heads and sit up from their chaise longues as two Armani suits stride conspicuously across their concrete plot of post-apple Eden. Even in their most relaxed moments Joe and Gavin Maloof, otherwise known as the owners of the Sacramento Kings, tend to move as if they're five minutes late for a plane. They also tend to be oblivious to their surroundings, whether they're at a Sacramento city council meeting to negotiate funds for a new arena or by a pool of nearly naked women -- against whom they stand out like incarnations of Jake and Ellwood.
New Mexico's highways were cleared Monday, a day after ice and snow had closed a section of Interstate 40 east of Albuquerque, a state spokesman said.
Icy roads and snow that stranded hundreds of vehicles overnight caused a massive 25-mile traffic jam on a section of an interstate east of Albuquerque Sunday afternoon, a state spokesman said.
Detroit led all U.S. metro areas in the percentage of homes entering foreclosure during the third quarter, at more than four times the national average, according to a report released Friday.
EIGHTEEN STATES now offer more generous minimum wages than the federal rate. So do roughly 140 cities and counties, from Albuquerque ($6.75 an hour), to Oxnard, Calif. ($12.88). The latest: Ventura...
We all know someone who's been there. You get the call for your dream gig, and you're so excited. Except for one small detail. It's in Omaha, or Tallahassee, or Albuquerque - a city you can barely find on a map.
Full disclosure: Last summer, a true love of my life, a 13-year-old black lab named Darin, passed away. I was bereft. Nine months later, my wife decided the period of mourning had come to a proper end. The two of us went to the pound and adopted a lab boxer named Zoe who was likely to be put asleep if she didn't find a home.
Home sales are slowing. Condo prices are slipping. Sellers can't get their asking prices. And real estate bulls, including Columbia University economics professor Christopher Mayer, who not long ag...
Home sales are slowing. Condo prices are slipping. Sellers can't get their asking prices.
The Georgia woman known as the "runaway bride" is unattached again.
In early spring a TV news report on KASA Channel 2 in Albuquerque noted that the housing market nationwide was slowing down, with mortgage rates and inventory rising and demand slackening.
When we profiled a group of amateur real estate speculators last year ("Riding the Boom," May 30, 2005), America was awash in a stark, raving frenzy that looked every bit as crazy as dot-com stocks...
SOARING WAREHOUSES with minimalist decor, textile factories transformed into chic spaces for the wealthy and stylish ... these days there's really nothing that unusual about real estate makeovers.
Federal authorities on Tuesday boosted to $50,000 a reward for information about 550 pounds of explosives missing from a business near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Leslie Toth is no troublemaker, although you might think otherwise when you hear about the dozen tickets she was issued by her Albuquerque homeowners association this year. Toth is the perpetrator ...
I contribute the max to my 401(k) and my wife and I both max out our IRAs. But the company my wife will start working for in January offers no retirement account of any type until she has been with the firm for three years.
Leslie Toth is no troublemaker, although you might think otherwise when you hear about the dozen tickets she was issued by her Albuquerque homeowners association this year.
A Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department helicopter that crashed Saturday in the yard of an Albuquerque home was brought down by a bullet, Sheriff Darren White said late Tuesday.
Jennifer Wilbanks, the Georgia woman who fled the state and faked her own kidnapping and sexual assault before her wedding, was indicted Wednesday by a grand jury, the Gwinnett County district attorney said.
A suburban Atlanta prosecutor said Sunday he would be less likely to bring charges against runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks if authorities determine she left spontaneously rather than planning her disappearance.
Instead of being the center of a lavish wedding Saturday night, Jennifer Wilbanks flew home to Georgia from New Mexico, where she surfaced early Saturday morning after a nationwide missing-person search.
How do I protect my stock portfolio from the declining value of the U.S. dollar?
It may come as no surprise that where you live affects your salary.
Terrorists beware: Albuquerque-Based Applied Research Associates has invented a new, portable radiation detector that can alert authorities to even trace amounts of radiation used in small nuclear ...
Casual Apparel maker Quiksilver has acquired DC Shoes, a Vista, Calif., producer of skate-inspired apparel, for $87 million in cash, stock, and debt. Sellers Damon Way, 32, and Ken Block, 36, may t...
Gas prices rose an average of just over 3 cents a gallon in the last two weeks, continuing their record-breaking climb, the publisher of a national survey said Sunday.
The number of traffic bottlenecks on U.S. highways and interstates has risen 40 percent in five years, according to a study released Thursday by an advocacy group for the transportation industry.
STAR POWER? Celebrities crusading against evil conglomerates are nothing new. But are they effective? Chances are, Chevy Chase's invective against genetically engineered foods at Kraft's annual mee...
Hot time, summer in the city, goes the song. Yes, there are many who prefer the city to the country, even in summer, and for them, Chicago tops the list.
When Lee and Donna Haeger decided in 1991 that suburban Chicago was too cold, too expensive and too fast-paced for retired life, they sought out its polar opposite. And they found it, they thought, in the tiny and newly popular retirement town of Silver City, N.M., situated less than 100 miles from the Mexican border.
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Oct. 6-14: A plethora of hot-air balloons--750 of them, to be exact--fills the sky at the 30th annual Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. It's the largest balloon event in the world. Al...
Q. My brother and I are beneficiaries of my father's IRA. Right now it's in a savings bank CD worth about $75,000. Can the IRA be divided into two separate accounts, and must we keep it where it is...
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Besides patching together jeans, Levi Strauss has a long history of funding projects that help patch together groups of people. Project Change, an independent nonprofit originally funded by the Lev...
Personal financial advice rarely gets more personal than this. My column on picking a guardian for your child ("How to Choose Your Child's Next Mom and Dad," Feb. 21) generated a mountain of mail f...
For a long time Tom Smith, a Cherokee, considered Native Americans to be "lost in the shadows" of corporate America--widely overlooked by recruiters and purchasing managers. His own people didn't h...
By now, you've probably heard about spur-of-the-moment travel bargains--especially ones offered on the Internet. Getting a low, last-minute fare to a fabulous destination sounds great, you think, b...
The dictionary defines retirement as a "withdrawal into privacy or seclusion." Is that how you envision your later years? Or would you prefer to define your retirement as freedom from the daily gri...
So you thought trip traumas explode only in Chevy Chase movies? Well, repack that suitcase. Consider Camarillo, Calif. husband and wife Cindy Marks, 37, and Jon LeConey, 43 (right). Last September,...
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. An old saw, but it certainly describes what's been happening in late-20th-century America. The growing gap between the well-off and everyone else is the...
A year ago, historically low interest rates and good economic news sent hordes of home shoppers knocking on the doors of sellers who were more than delighted to see them. Now, however, a slower eco...
The rumors started the moment Indian Motorcycle closed shop. The company, and the flamboyant motorbikes it had made for 53 years, would be back. Today, four decades later, the rumor turns out to be...
Whether you make $25,000 a year or $225,000, you may find yourself coming up short from paycheck to paycheck. You' re not alone. Our radio callers often tell us they find it hard to control their s...
If you scoff at alternative medicine, you may want to think again. In October, the usually staid National Institutes of Health issued research grants of $30,000 each to test the effectiveness of 30...
WHAT HAPPENS when you ask seventh- and eighth-graders, awash in the formative years, what their life is like? They tell you. Sometimes they tell you about gangs and guns, or a dad that does drugs. ...
Companies shopping for locations should consider a lesson car buyers learned years ago: Small to midsize models often do the job more efficiently than bigger, better-known alternatives. As growth o...
In an aggressive drive for new business, First National Bank of Jackson, Tennessee, is opening a mobile branch office, a converted armored truck. The truck, which has two teller windows on one side...
TAXES Q. My job as a truck driver requires that I wear a uniform and clean my own shirts. Other employees deduct $400 to $500 in laundry bills annually. This alone wouldn't exceed 2% of my adjusted...
With a record 455 million people flying last year -- nearly double the number just a decade ago -- you might think that U.S. airlines would be reaping windfall profits. They're not, and that's the ...
^ ALBUQUERQUE -- Another Western myth -- the sometimes violent conflict between cattlemen and sheepmen -- is biting the dust. Over the weekend, the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association and the Ne...
ALBUQUERQUE -- Another Western myth -- the sometimes violent conflict between cattlemen and sheepmen -- is biting the dust. Over the weekend, the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association and the New ...
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