Charisma News

Feb

Chinese Year of the Snake may be bad for the stock market

Label: Business

The Chinese new year, the Year of the Snake, could leave the stock market snake-bitten.Sunday ushered in the Chinese New Year...

Feb

Ambitious makeover planned for old housing project

Label: World

Denise Penegar puts a little extra effort into the teenage girls, the ones who've dropped out of high school to care for their...

All eyes on Frank Ocean as Grammy Awards approach

Label: Lifestyle

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Everybody's thinkin' about Frank Ocean.Ocean is a cause celebre and the man with the momentum as Sunday's Grammy Awards approach. One of six top nominees with six nominations apiece, the 25-year-old R&B singer turned cultural talking point will have the music world's attention.It remains to be seen if it will be the "Thinkin Bout You" singer's night, but there's no question...

For Families Struggling with Mental Illness, Carolyn Wolf Is a Guide in the Darkness

Label: Health

When a life starts to unravel, where do you turn for help? Melissa Klump began to slip in the eighth grade. She couldn’t focus in class, and in a moment of despair she swallowed 60 ibuprofen tablets. She was smart, pretty and ill: depression, attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. In her 20s, after a more...

Fee increases are making FHA mortgages more expensive

Label: Business

WASHINGTON — If you want to buy a house with minimal cash by using an FHA-insured mortgage, here's some sobering news: Because...

Feb

A delicate new balancing act in senior healthcare

Label: World

When Claire Gordon arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, nurses knew she needed extra attention.She was 96, had heart disease...

Stars salute MusiCares honoree Bruce Springsteen

Label: Lifestyle

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Be it concert or charity auction, Bruce Springsteen can bring any event to a crescendo.Springsteen briefly took over auctioneering duties before being honored as MusiCares person of the year Friday night, exhorting the crowd to bid on a signed Fender electric guitar by amping up the deal. The 63-year-old rock 'n' roll star moved the bid north from $60,000 by offering a series of...

In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen

Label: Health

At least nine polio immunization workers were shot to death in northern Nigeria on Friday by gunmen who attacked two clinics, officials said. The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio. Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of...