Rooms and Sublets

When John and Sara Kanive wanted to find a way to make their Chicago apartment stand out in order to sublet it in March, their solution was right in front of them, wagging his tail. Otis, their Great Dane-German shepherd mix, very obligingly parked...

A former Arlington Boys & Girls Club program director, arrested Friday at his New York home, returned in shackles to Massachusetts last night to face charges he sexually assaulted five young children while working at the youth organization in the late...

The spoils of countless yard sales, garage sales and estate sales fill Jim and Debbie Miaczynski's Millcreek Township home. "We've furnished basically our entire house" using items bought at such sales, Debbie Miaczynski said. In just the living room,...

PETOSKEY -- Following a recent hike in the fees it collects on local lodging rentals, the Petoskey Area Visitors Bureau is expanding its promotions of the area to potential tourists this year. The bureau — serving Petoskey, Harbor Springs and the...

Running a motel on Interstate 35 near Rundberg Lane is not for the faint of heart. Ralph Gudbaur learned that in the summer of 2008 when he confronted a man he suspected of dealing drugs in the parking lot of the Budget Lodge, where he'd just become the...

Online travel agency Orbitz Worldwide Inc. said Thursday it turned a profit in the first quarter thanks to higher hotel room bookings and sales of its vacation packages. The Chicago company reported a profit of $146.2 million, or $1.34 per share in...

Have you ever wondered what you could do with that spare bedroom in your home? There's a new trend across the country. And it's growing here. A website can turn your extra room into temporary lodging with the benefit of some extra income. It can...

From the outside, there are few hints that Gaza Hospital ever had a thing to do with medicine. Laundry hangs out the windows of the shabby 11-story building, and it is fronted by assorted shops and a sick cat named Black. Indoors, there are metal grates...

Ladies of the evening roam Federal Highway morning, noon and night. Vagrants sleep here. And dope is sold. The bad reputation linked to Hollywood's stretch of Federal Highway frustrates city leaders, who have grander plans for the key commercial...

I read Chris Epting's perspective on the beach fire issue this morning and I wanted to give you another perspective. I live in Huntington Beach about two blocks from the beach. I am not a "wealthy person" who is trying to keep others from beach...

NEWPORT NEWS — A federal judge on Tuesday vacated the capital murder conviction and two life sentences of a man who has been imprisoned for more than two decades in a Newport News case, ordering him released if he's not tried again within 120 days....

Mount Vernon Apartments in Vernon offers an ideal situation for residents who do not want to be tied down by the cost and responsibilities of homeownership. Young people who are going to college or have just graduated find that renting an apartment is a...