O perating a small business from home can free entrepreneurs from the costs of leasing space and commuting. But too many of them may short-change themselves when it comes to buying insurance.

Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in work (Hattiesburg American)

Home for poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey is complicated. "I love this place. Yet this place has made an outsider of me," she said. Trethewey's latest collection of poetry "Native Guard," published in 2006, confronts this conflicting sense of displacement and what she calls "nostos," the Greek word for homecoming. The book takes its name from the first regiments of Louisiana Native ...

Yar’Adua Resumes Work Tomorrow (This Day)

Forty-eight hours after he returned back home from Saudi Arabia where he had spent 17 days performing the lesser hajj and also attending to his health, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is expected to resume work at his desk tomorrow, THISDAY checks have revealed.

News & Star (The News and Star)

A Carlisle father who had been missing from his home since Wednesday has been found safe and well. Grant Spencer Harrison, 41, left his Warwick Road home that morning to go to work, but never returned, leaving his family frantic with worry.

New license required for home improvement work (Townsend Times)

STATEWIDE -- Planning a home improvement project soon? Starting in October, Massachusetts will require many contractors to obtain a new license in order to be able to receive a permit to work on dwellings.