Wall Street prepares to close out 2009 on an upbeat note with the market holding hefty gains from a stunning comeback following a disastrous start to the year. The stock market enters the final week of trading at its highs for the year on the heels of a stunning nine-month rally that lifted the main indexes from their lowest levels ...

The Rev. John "Bootsie" Wilson, a former lead singer and last surviving member of the soul group The Silhouettes, has died. He was 69. Wilson died Sept. 21 at his home in Spartanburg, S.C., after batting cancer and a kidney ailment, his ...

Ever since Americans sent their children to one-room schoolhouses, parents have known what makes a good school: an inspiring, organized, creative teacher. But researchers haven't been able to quantify what exactly makes a teacher effective and how to tie that to student achievement. Now the Bill ...

Mike Myers flop "The Love Guru" emerged as the front-runner for Hollywood's least coveted awards show -- the Razzies -- here Wednesday, the annual Oscars parody that salutes the worst-of-the-worst. Myers's comedy, about an ice hockey player who enlists the help of a mystic guru to help him turn around his professional and personal fortunes, earned seven nominations for next ...