Increasingly erratic behavior has friends worried - and police taking action
• Weeks after giving birth to daughter Lou, Heidi Klum took her family - including hubby Seal and her mother, Erna - shopping in Santa Barbara. The Project Runway host hit up the Solstice Sunglass Boutique in Paseo Nuevo, heading straight for the Marc Jacobs wall where she picked out a pair of gold aviators. Total cost? $290!
Extradition proceedings have begun for the pair, who are facing felony charges in Santa Barbara
The actor and Evi Quaid are being held on suspicion of burglary for allegedly failing to pay a $10,000 hotel bill
After the leak of their nude tape, the couple spend quiet time outside L.A.
A single-engine airplane made an emergency landing on a California highway Sunday morning, though no major injuries were reported, authorities said.
Environmental businesses are everywhere these days, but Ecology & Environment was eco-friendly long before green was a hot property -- or a viable business model.
In June we asked you which city you would like to see featured on the My City_My Life show, and you wrote to us with lots of ideas. They ranged from European capitals such as London, to distinct cultural hubs of South America, like Mexico City.
The singer's family hopes to hold memorial for fans on Friday at Michael's ranch in California
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.
Increasingly erratic behavior has friends worried - and police taking action
• Weeks after giving birth to daughter Lou, Heidi Klum took her family - including hubby Seal and her mother, Erna - shopping in Santa Barbara. The Project Runway host hit up the Solstice Sunglass Boutique in Paseo Nuevo, heading straight for the Marc Jacobs wall where she picked out a pair of gold aviators. Total cost? $290!
Extradition proceedings have begun for the pair, who are facing felony charges in Santa Barbara
The actor and Evi Quaid are being held on suspicion of burglary for allegedly failing to pay a $10,000 hotel bill
After the leak of their nude tape, the couple spend quiet time outside L.A.
A single-engine airplane made an emergency landing on a California highway Sunday morning, though no major injuries were reported, authorities said.
Environmental businesses are everywhere these days, but Ecology & Environment was eco-friendly long before green was a hot property -- or a viable business model.
In June we asked you which city you would like to see featured on the My City_My Life show, and you wrote to us with lots of ideas. They ranged from European capitals such as London, to distinct cultural hubs of South America, like Mexico City.
The singer's family hopes to hold memorial for fans on Friday at Michael's ranch in California
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.
The Twilight star talks about what's really going on with Entourage's leading man
The wildfire that has scorched thousands of acres and destroyed dozens of homes in Southern California for almost a week apparently was started by a power tool being used to clear brush in the area, fire officials said.
Fog, low winds and cool ocean air were giving firefighters hope Saturday that the wildfire that has ravaged parts of Southern California for days may be coming under control.
A wildfire that has engulfed dozens of homes and displaced thousands of people kept roaring in Southern California on Friday, as fire officials acknowledged they're not sure how much luck they'll have slowing the blaze.
What's wrong with cash flow management? When Masen Yaffee and Erin Lozano asked this question over coffee in 2007, the answer was: everything.
A wildfire stoked by heavy winds, high temperatures and low humidity burned high-end homes Wednesday in the foothills of Santa Barbara County, California.
A wind-whipped fire in the hills above Santa Barbara, California, expanded to 400 acres late Tuesday, putting 1,200 homes under a mandatory evacuation order and another 1,000 under an evacuation warning, emergency officials said.
Jessica Keenan tried on wedding dresses in a fancy Beverly Hills boutique, about 100 miles from the Santa Barbara, California, clinic where she gets blasted with chemotherapy once a week.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2009 Dozen Distinctive Destinations range from a quintessential New England waterfront community to an Old West boomtown in Nevada.
Firefighters will need at least until midweek to get control of wildfires that have destroyed more than 900 homes and other structures in Southern California, a Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman says.
"It was like Armageddon," says the actor, who fled with his kids but whose home was spared
Now's a prime time to enjoy a cozy bed-and-breakfast. Whether you want to trek a nature trail or shop along a dock, these places offer a great escape.
From Mexico's Guadalupe Valley to Blue Hill, Maine, these 10 waterfront getaways offer a toast to the good life.
Fast-moving flames early Friday burned the steep mountainsides a mile from homes on the northern edge of Goleta, California, near Santa Barbara.
Authorities ordered most of the remaining residents of this scenic coastal community to leave Wednesday because an out-of-control wildfire, one of hundreds in California
Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness
It's 9 p.m. Do you know where your life is? Wake up, go to work, crawl home, wrestle dinner onto the table, crash. Wake up, carpool, run endless errands, tuck the kids in, collapse into bed yourself. Whose weeknight is it anyway?
Jay Schwartz, founder of IdeaWork, can usually be found creating flashy websites and ad campaigns for clients such as Harrah's and Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity show, but he often escapes the digital realm to draw 12-foot chalk pastels on the pavement.
Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.
There's no way I'm reading now that the train has reached the ocean.
Luxurious or rustic. Remote island or classic coastal hike. Whatever your style, you can make it green.
Twin sis Tamera "has been so supportive," the Sister, Sister and The Game actress tells PEOPLE
Rescue teams on Friday found the wreckage of a plane that crashed Thursday night in the mountains of Venezuela, but none of the 46 people aboard survived, a searcher said.
With Brad Pitt in the audience and her latest director Clint Eastwood to present her with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Outstanding Performance of the Year Award for A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie signed autographs and posed for photos Saturday night with scores of fans who filled the streets.
Spelling shows off her new curves in Santa Barbara with Dean McDermott
Two years ago, when Heath Ledger and his girlfriend Michelle Williams traveled with their new baby an hour and half north of L.A. to accept the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Breakthrough Performance of the Year Award, it was just another stop in what had been a seemingly endless award season for the young actor.
A handcuffed Michael Jackson arrived at the Santa Barbara jail Thursday to face child molestation charges that could put him behind bars for years if convicted.
Rescue workers struggled Wednesday to rescue a 12-year-old U.S. girl who was the only survivor of a weekend plane crash in Panama
Question: Does it make sense to buy a stock just before it pays a dividend, get the dividend, then sell? Assuming no decline in value, wouldn't that yield a nice quick return? - Richard Ermolovich
"Operation Purple" camp in Santa Barbara allows children whose mothers or fathers are deployed by the military to have some summer fun with other kids who know exactly what they're going through.
Today might very well be the day that you do it. After all, you've been planning it for a long time. You're ready to ditch the job, dump the boss and start your own business. What's stopping you? It's not as if you're attached to your cubicle, despite its magnificent proximity to the vending machines. There's just that one nagging hurdle: You know nothing about starting a business. Well, nothing encouraging. You know that many fail (sure enough, about a third do in the first four years). And you know that becoming an entrepreneur costs a small fortune. That one, you'll be happy to hear, isn't necessarily true. Yes, you'll likely get your start-up money from savings and personal loans until you can win over funders with evidence of your success. But it won't take that much money. You probably already have all the technology you need at home—high-speed Internet, a computer, maybe even a nifty printer/fax/copier combo. You can rent almost anything else, from accounting help to
Housing prices continued to fall in some housing markets around the nation, according to a government agency report covering price changes during the fourth quarter of 2006, but overall showed modest growth.
On a rainy morning in Charlotte, Mike and Kathy Butler, founders of the PRstore, are hunkered down in a conference room, teaching the intricacies of logos, letterheads, and lamination to some new f...
1789: The U.S. War Department establish a regular U.S. army with a strength of several hundred men.
Helio Dayton's first surf outing ended badly. He staggered onto the beach, dazed and bruised. Years later he tried again. Now the wireless whiz kid, seen here on a wave in Indonesia, says he is obs...
As part of our Welcome to the Future special report, we recently asked for your thoughts on the future of sports and fitness.
After years of local home markets getting more and more overvalued, the trend has reversed, according to an analyis published this week.
Now that Wendy McCaw has driven away most of the editors from the newspaper she owns, the Santa Barbara News-Press, a lot of people in journalism are beginning to question what had become accepted wisdom in the past year or so - that independent, local ownership is the salvation of the ailing newspaper industry.
Indianapolis was the leader among all major U.S. cities for housing affordability during the first quarter of 2006, according to the latest figures from the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo.
"Alpha Dog," a new movie starring Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, and Sharon Stone is shot and ready to be released this spring. But it could be some time before it comes to a theater near you because the movie's main character is awaiting trial for murder.
Some of the most overheated U.S. housing markets did become a little less overvalued during the fourth quarter of 2005 -- but homes there didn't actually fall in price.
The last time my wife fainted, which happens once every decade or so, we went to the E.R., stayed for a few hours, found out that she had a concussion and got hit with a bill for $13,086.48. Then i...
Another one bites the dust
ng to tell him that his 63-year-old father had died suddenly. Then, weeks after Baran returned to school from his home in Santa Barbara, he had more unexpected news: a call informing him that he was the sole heir to his father's half-million-dollar 401(k). Stunned and upset, he barely registered a single detail from the conversation and had to call back to check the amount. "It didn't sink in," recalls Baran, 37. "I had no idea he'd saved that much." After all, Baran hadn't grown up rich. His father worked as a meter reader for an electric company for 35 years and raised his family in a modest 1,900-square-foot three-bedroom home near the University of California at Santa Cruz. But an even bigger surprise was still to come. About a week later, his stepmother e-mailed to say that he'd also inherited his childhood home, now worth $850,000, with just $148,000 left on the mortgage. Over the phone, his wife, Erin Chrislock, read him the will that had just arrived in the mail. "It was very emotional," says Bara...
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One of the favorite fantasies of the affluent post-industrial age is the retreat to wine country.
A year ago, a series of phone calls turned John Baran's life upside down. The first came as he sat in a classroom in Ithaca, N.Y., 3,000 miles away from his wife and kids. His stepmother was callin...
A year ago, a series of phone calls turned John Baran's life upside down. The first came as he sat in a classroom in Ithaca, N.Y., 3,000 miles away from his wife and kids. His stepmother was calling to tell him that his 63-year-old father had died suddenly.
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The appeal of real estate is simple: It's one area where regular people can get a significant amount of investment leverage.
Searchers used their hands to dig through thick mud and debris Tuesday in search of survivors after a mudslide devastated this coastal community northwest of Los Angeles and killed at least six people.
The judge in the case against Michael Jackson has denied the pop singer's request for a reduction in bail.
After Dennis Kozlowski and his $6,000 shower curtain, you'd think that CEOs would have shelved any grand decorating ambitions. But the yen to tell the world you've arrived can be overwhelming, says...
When oil hits $40 a barrel, as it did in mid-May, alarm bells start to go off. After all, the last time oil jumped over $40 was in 1990, during the first Gulf war, after which the economy suffered...
A judge ordered the Santa Barbara County district attorney Tuesday to give Michael Jackson's defense lawyers a copy of the warrant allowing a search of the pop icon's home, as well as documents related to that warrant.
The floors creak, the doors lock only from the inside, and the walls are paper thin -- so whispering is the norm. If this doesn't sound appealing, it's because the strange beauty of Big Sur California's Deetjen Inn so defies description.
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Turning on the tap makes it all look pretty simple, but where America's water goes, how it gets there, and who pays how much for it is downright surprising. Consider:
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If you dream on occasion about chucking it all and opening a homey bed-and- breakfast inn, pay heed to some sobering words from our veteran: start-up costs can easily exceed $100,000, and preparing...
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