A Delaware judge sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter. Judge Jan Jurden noted in her order that Robert H. Richards IV ”will…

  Blacks make up the majority of the nation’s population of those serving time in different prisons, whose budgets in several state have seen dramatic…

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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - A flurry of ads on local radio in Cleveland promises to teach the public how to quickly flip homes for profit…

The most successful blacks and Hispanics are more likely to have poor neighbors than are whites, according to a new analysis of Census data. The average affluent black and Hispanic household — defined in the study as earning more than $75,000 a year — lives in a poorer neighborhood than the average lower-income non-Hispanic white […]

It’s a brutal fact that only 25 percent of baby boomers will be able to afford retirement by age 65, and thousands of them turn 65 everyday.

Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world’s richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ name was not at the top. This year, the title of “World’s Richest” went to Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim, with a net worth of $53.5 billion. Slim, whose holding company […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Earthquakes do not respect social customs. They do not coddle the rich. They know nothing about the invisible lines that in Haiti keep the poor masses packed together in crowded slums and the well-to-do high up in the breezy hills of places like Pétionville.