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  • 5 Worst Home Renovation Projects The Street

    BOSTON (TheStreet) -- A new bathroom or roof can make your home a lot more pleasant, but don't expect to recover its cost when you sell.That's because a recent analysis by Remodeling magazine and the National Association of Realtors found that none of 35 upgrades studied will boost your home's value enough to cover the job's nationwide average price."You can easily put ...

  • The most expensive hospital in America

    BAYONNE, N.J. -- The most expensive hospital in America is not set amid the swaying palm trees of Beverly Hills or the luxury townhouses of New York's Upper East Side. It is in a faded blue-collar town 11 miles from Midtown Manhattan. Based on the bills it submits to Medicare, the Bayonne Medical Center charged the highest amounts in the country for nearly one-quarter of the most common ...

  • Realtor receives top state honor at ceremony

    The Women's Council of Realtors has more than 12,000 members nationally and is an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. Its mission is to empower women Realtors to reach their full potential as entrepreneurs and real estate industry leaders. Jones has worked in the real estate industry and been a member of the Association of Realtors for 14 years. She has been a member of the ...

  • Powerball jackpot hits eye-popping record

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - An electronic street sign displays the current value of the Powerball lottery in New York, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan ...

  • But does it really taste like chicken

    Beyond Meat , a Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based food company that specializes in making "chicken" from plant-based protein, claims it is 80 percent of the way toward making real-tasting fake chicken. And you can find out for yourself as their products are now in Whole Foods markets and the Tropical Smoothie restaurants in New York City, where you can substitute its fake chicken for real ...


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Movie Review

The Prince of Egypt

The Prince of Egypt

"The Prince of the Egypt" is the first feature-length animated film in many years to make a serious bid for an adult audience. Not, mind you, just to entertain the adults who have to see the movie with their children, but to attract adults on their own. With Disney reigning supreme over the animated world for the last decade, there has been little room for competing studios to make worthwhile proj ... ...

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  • Revealed Devastating impact of bedroom tax sees huge leap in demand for emergency hardship handouts for tenants

    The extent of the suffering inflicted by the "bedroom tax" can be revealed for the first time today as figures show a 338 per cent leap in the number of people applying for emergency handouts in the month since it was ...

  • China April housing inflation quickens to two year high

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in April in two years, driven by a jump in prices in Beijing and Shanghai, complicating the task of policymakers trying to cool the property sector while supporting economic ...

  • Real Estate Nothing to fear from zombie houses

    Zombie houses are what RealtyTrac is calling properties vacated by owners who have moved out and moved on with their lives after getting tired of waiting for their lenders to foreclose. In a new report, the first-ever "foreclosure inventory " found 301,874 "zombie" properties have been abandoned by their owners. Last year at this time some 7.73 percent of all mortgages were ...

  • Types of people the IRS pays more attention to

    nonprofit organization with conservative ties. Even so, you may be a candidate for a tax audit-and you may have no clue what you have done to warrant the attention of the IRS. The nation's tax collectors have long made it a practice to look for discrepancies, omissions and suspicious activity to uncover tax evasion and fraud. And lately, the IRS ...

  • NFL stars medical issues may be mounting

    will have surgery next week to replace a plate in his left forearm, Albert Breer and Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network report. Gronkowsk broke his forearm while blocking on a fourth-quarter extra point attempt in a 59-24 win over ...

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