What’s the difference between Class A, Class B and Class C mutual fund shares? QUESTION: What’s the difference between Class A, Class B and Class C mutual fund shares? Does it have to do with the loads one is required to pay? ANSWER: As you suspect, the difference lies in …

LA PAZ, Bolivia – Bolivia‘s presidential front-runner said Tuesday he would not allow unlimited production of coca, the crop used to produce cocaine, but would call a referendum to ask how it should be controlled. “There won’t be the free cultivation of the coca leaf,” Evo Morales said at news …

If you think turning 40 is bad, just wait until you turn 44. Researchers say that’s the age when people feel most depressed. Using data on two million people from 80 countries, researchers found an extraordinarily consistent pattern in depression and happiness levels that leaves us most miserable in middle …

WASHINGTON – The Senate is set to begin voting on dueling economic aid proposals, as senators rush to add jobless benefits and tax rebates for high earners, the elderly, and disabled veterans to a House-passed package. Senate Democrats and some Republicans are teaming up to tack $32 billion onto the …

FOLSOM, Calif. – A concert marking the 40th anniversary of Johnny Cash’s famous concert at Folsom State Prison has been scrapped, with the prison and the promoter blaming each other for the cancellation. The tribute concert, scheduled for Sunday, was to have been staged in the same prison cafeteria where …

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. – A body believed to be the last of four children who were allegedly tossed from a coastal Alabama bridge by their father was recovered Sunday morning, authorities said. The body of an Asian child was found about 10 a.m. in the Gulf of Mexico off …

SKOPJE, Macedonia – A Macedonian Army MI-17 helicopter crashed Saturday 25 kilometers southeast of Skopje, near the Katlanovsko Blato area, killing all 11 people on board. The Defense Ministry confirmed the accident, the deadliest ever for the Macedonian air force. The helicopter was returning from Bosnia, where Macedonia contributes 30 …

CHICAGO – A criminal justice student who said she knew one or two songs by R&B star R. Kelly and described his music as “old stuff” was added to the jury in the singer’s child pornography trial Tuesday. She joins three other jurors who were chosen on Monday. A total …

JERUSALEM – Orthodox Jews have burned hundreds of New Testaments in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in Israel. Uzi Aharon, the deputy mayor of the central Israeli town of Or Yehuda, says he got into a loudspeaker car last Thursday and urged people to turn over hundreds …

PHILADELPHIA – A Boy Scouts of America chapter embroiled in a battle over gay rights has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia to avoid eviction from their city-owned headquarters. The federal lawsuit seeks to stop the city from evicting the Scouts or from charging the group about $200,000 …