Powerball Winners Share Lessons and Risks

COLUMBIA, Mo. — So you just won the $550 million Powerball jackpot, the second highest in lottery history. Now what?

Perhaps it’s time for a tropical vacation or a new car. There are bills to pay, loans to settle, debts to square.

Past winners of mega-lottery drawings and financial…

Four Men Sue Over 'Gay Conversion Therapy'

Four young men who say they underwent therapy that sought to “convert” them from gay to straight are suing a New Jersey provider known as JONAH, alleging fraud and accusing it of using dangerous sham tactics to try to “fix something that isn’t broken.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center…

Hall of Fame Voters Confront The 'Steriod Era'

NEW YORK (AP) — For several years, baseball fans have argued whether Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa belong in the Hall of Fame.

Starting on Wednesday, the voters who will actually decide that debate can get to work.

Bonds, Clemens and Sosa are set to show up on the…

'Two and A Half Men' Actor Apologizes

NEW YORK (AP) — Teenage actor Angus T. Jones of the comedy “Two and a Half Men” apologized Tuesday for a series of interviews denouncing his own show, an episode that has rivaled former colleague Charlie Sheen’s meltdown as an off-screen oddity.

Speaking to religious media outlets, the 19…

Grocer Gives Away Store to Employees

“It’s a Wonderful Life” has come to life in Bemidji, Minn., with a hero as public-spirited as the George Bailey of the Capra classic movie.

Grocery mogul Joe Lueken, 70, literally is giving away the store, to his 400 employees.

After 46 years running Lueken’s Village Foods…