YOU’RE FEELING FLUSH The answer depends on which type of mortgage is right for you. Here are your options: Getting a single mortgage for your second home; refinancing your mortgage on your first home to cover the costs for both homes; using a home-equity loan to make a down payment …

WASHINGTON – Hostile attitudes and inappropriate treatment of women persist at the U.S. Military Academy (search) at West Point and the Naval Academy (search), a Pentagon task force says in a new study. The panel called for better training of future officers at the academies, saying the value of women …

ATLANTA – Cartoon Network (search) is plenty popular with school-age children. Now they’re coming for the babies. Starting Monday, the Atlanta-based network begins a two-hour morning block of cartoons for preschoolers, even children under a year old. Other children’s networks already make programs for children that young, and Cartoon Network’s …

MALIBU, Calif. – A photographer was shot in the leg with a BB gun outside a home where he believed Britney Spears (search) was attending a bridal shower Saturday evening, authorities said. It was unclear who fired the BB as the photographer was staking out the event at the Malibu …

Ever made a decision you later regretted? Lots of people have. Whether it’s choosing the kitchen’s paint color, blurting out harmful words, or buying a “money pit” house, many of us can look back and wish we’d done things differently, though we may have learned or grown from the experience. …

A look at the 10 victims authorities have connected to the BTK serial killer (search) in Wichita, Kan.: — Joseph Otero, 38, found slain in his home along with three family members on Jan. 15, 1974. He had been strangled. Otero served in the Air Force for more than 20 …

MIAMI – Police had no suspects Sunday in the shooting of rap mogul Suge Knight (search) at an MTV awards party — a typical development in the street-justice world of rap. Knight, 40, was shot once in the upper right leg shortly after midnight Saturday at a star-studded bash hosted …

WASHINGTON – President Bush is taking advantage of Congress’ vacation and giving John Bolton (search) a recess appointment to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. What is a recess appointment? — A recess appointment occurs when the U.S. president fills a vacant federal position during a Congressional …

LOS ANGELES – When Michael Jackson (search) issued a brief statement Tuesday regretting the passing of one of his mentors, John H. Johnson (search), the subtext that caught the eye of many was where the statement came from: the office of Raymone K. Bain (search), the spokeswoman who had not …

WARTBURG, Tenn. – More than a thousand people, including the governor of Tennessee, attended the Friday funeral of the correctional officer killed before a couple led authorities on a lengthy manhunt. Those mourning Wayne “Cotton Morgan” (search) included 200 uniformed officers. Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (search) spoke at the funeral …