Life

Getting a family organized requires more than a few well-chosen New Year's resolutions.

The home-improvement and design shows make it look easy: Take a simple sheet of inexpensive plywood and presto! In a few minutes, you've got a table, a cabinet or a lounge chair.

Deer are ready to start pruning our trees and shrubs. Although unconcerned with promoting plant health or esthetics, in at least one situation deer can actually help us prune well.

OK, it’s January, and it’s time to get down to paying off the bills, saving money and keeping your budget under control.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The difference between owning a ferret in Hawaii and one in Pennsylvania can be up to three years in jail — and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. - For the first time in her life, Marion Johnston says she feels old.

CHICAGO — It’s been eight years since her then-pimp took Nicole to a North Side Chicago parlour and paid $60 to have her branded on her neck with a horseshoe tattoo and tiny letters underneath, spelling “Productions.

CRESAPTOWN, Md. - Hazard Wilson's new cellmate is a hairy bundle of energy whose playful zeal can't be contained by steel doors: a five-month-old golden retriever.

LONDON - Two London-based chefs with roots in Jerusalem one day. The next, poster boys for peace.

Expect to see more diesels, more hybrids and more power in a number of all-new offerings by various manufacturers this year. By all indications, 2013 is going to be busy, with lots of choices for consumers.