Lifestyle Wire

  • The signs your dog needs a dental checkup
    Caring for your dog's teeth is not only an important part of grooming; it is an integral part of keeping him healthy. Brushing your dog's teeth is a task that should be done regularly to keep his mouth and teeth in tip top shape. There are times, however, when your dog needs a dental professional. To help you keep your dog and his pearly whites healthy, the American Kennel Club reveals the signs that mean it's time to visit the dentist. Among them:
  • Family Meals Matter: Fall in love with family meals
    Love is in the air this week and we're celebrating with family meals! Eating together at home improves nutrition and brings you closer together as a family when you turn off electronics and tune in to each other. This week, we've compiled red or chocolate themed recipes keeping in the spirit of Valentine's Day to help you fall in love with family meals.
  • Moms Gear: Remote control brings an added plus to this space heater
    The Lasko 755320 Remote Control Ceramic Tower Heater with Digital Display may well be heaven sent to that parent who knows what it's like to have kids battling it out for a prime spot in front of the space heater. This heater is clearly a floor model, which means there is no reason for children to be picking it up and moving it around like, well, a cat; it can also be set to oscillate, allowing the heat to reach more than one child.
  • Refined, with a side of wacky
    The 54th annual Grammy Awards had plenty of head-turning moments. It was impossible to ignore Nicki Minaj's red nun's habit or Fergie's orange see-through gown.
  • New Jersey remembers Houston before she was a pop queen
    Outside the Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, the flag flew at half-staff in the icy wind as Principal Henry W. Hamilton remembered the gangly 15-year-old who lived up the road, and who excitedly showed off her modeling portfolio to him one afternoon in 1978.
  • Houston's tone in 'I Will Always Love You' was pure, game-changing
    LOS ANGELES - The voice floats confidently but quietly in the first few lines of Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You," the song for which the superstar vocalist, who died Saturday of undetermined causes at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, will always be remembered. Hear it rush out of the radio unexpectedly, and it has the power to transform your world.
  • As Facebook IPO nears, the case for dull stocks
    Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.
  • Some can find nice tax-season surprises
    After the financial stress of the last few years, your tax return this year might offer you some of the first relief you've had in a long time, but it also might deliver some disappointment.
  • Whitney Houston: Voice for ages tarnished by addiction
    The voice floats confidently but quietly in the first few lines of Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You," the song for which the superstar vocalist, who died Saturday of unknown causes at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,will always be remembered.
  • Whitney Houston, pop titan, dies at 48
    Whitney Houston, a willowy church singer with a towering voice who became a titan of the pop charts in the 1980s and 1990s but then saw much of her success crumble away amid the fumes of addiction and reckless ego, has died. She was 48.
  • Whitney Houston, 48, found dead in Beverly Hills
    Singer Whitney Houston, who reigned as one of the world's top pop stars in the 1980s and '90s but suffered from recurring bouts with drugs and alcohol, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room Saturday.
  • As Facebook IPO nears, the case for dull stocks
    Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.
  • Week's recalls: chandeliers, coffee makers, lamps
    Crystal chandeliers with a dangerous tendency to fall, single-cup coffee makers that may spray scalding liquid on users and lamps that may start fires are among the consumer products recalled this week.