Intelligence tests widely used to help determine the competence of criminal defendants and the placement of students are for sale on eBay's online auction site, and the test maker is worried they will be misused. ...more

December 19, 2007

For the first time, doctors have used stem cells from liposuctioned fat to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed. ...more

December 16, 2007

Doctors are encouraging a new group of people to consider getting tested for genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men. ...more

December 15, 2007

Thousands of breast cancer patients each year could be spared chemotherapy or get gentler versions of it without harming their odds of beating the disease, new research suggests. ...more

December 14, 2007

The Marine is gone. The mom who took personal leave from work also is gone. And so is the mother who claimed her daughter would choke her if she failed. ...more

November 13, 2007

As of Monday morning, just four of the original 20 participants remained in a contest to win coveted Hannah Montana concert tickets. ...more

November 12, 2007

THE PROMISES Church member Ruth McGinnis lent the Whites $170,000 in 1995 to help them buy a home. They never paid her back or cared for her as promised. LaShonda Dupree didn't get a home she believed she won in a church-sponsored essay contest in 2002. The Whites repaid McGinnis and bought Dupree a home after their stories ran in the Tribune. ...more

November 11, 2007

Item No. 1, for him: a Remington single-action revolver engraved with a scroll pattern and "Doreteo Arango" - Pancho Villa's real name. ...more

November 10, 2007

A resume and a brief job interview can't answer the question that matters most to a new hire's co-workers: Is this person an absolute pain? ...more

November 7, 2007

AT&T's strategy of selling high-speed Internet connections to temper a loss of fixed-line telephone customers may be faltering as new Web subscribers become harder to sign up. ...more

October 23, 2007