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A mother of five children has been killed in San Antonio, Texas, after being struck by a driver outside her home while defending her daughter who "was being bullied from kids from school," reports say. Pennie Gomez, 36, is now facing charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following the death of Ashley Lopez on Jan. 11, Bexar County court records show. ...The report said one witness began banging on the car window to tell Gomez that she had hit someone and that person was still trapped underneath the vehicle -- but when that person tried to...

Thanksgiving is the holiday that pulls families together, squeezing them around a table for a feast of turkey, tradition and togetherness. We encourage conversations meant to be personally relevant, but sometimes they turn into a horizontal Babel, with each generation speaking in a different tongue. It's a stretch to identify an entire generation by its tastes in fashion and music, but such tastes offer strong clues. You can separate boomers from Generation Xers and millenials by who prefers the Beatles, Michael Jackson or Lady Gaga. Seniors who came of age during World War II still groove on Glenn Miller and...

Greenspan's grim diagnosis Posted: March 1, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. The job of the chairman of the Fed, it used to be said, was to take away the punch bowl just as the party got going good. Last week, Alan Greenspan did his duty. He told Congress Social Security benefits must be cut for the baby boomers, to avoid taxes having to be raised on the Gen-Xers. Like Thelma and Louise, Social Security and Medicare are headed for the cliff. For decades, our leaders, terrified of touching the "third rail" of American politics, have put...

WASHINGTON -- Anne Hare and her husband made a momentous decision three years ago: They would not have children. It's not that they don't like kids, she says. They simply don't want to alter the lifestyle they enjoy. "With kids, especially young kids, infants and toddlers, you really can't do the active stuff we like to do," said Hare, 43, a fitness program coordinator from Gainesville, Ga. Hare is among 26.7 million women aged 15 to 44 who are childless, a record number, according to new Census Bureau data from a June 2002 survey. They represent nearly 44 percent of...