It was all about the brides Sunday at this year's Oregon Wedding Showcase. People flooded the Lane Events Center to find the perfect features for their big day.

A 3-year-old business called B2R is using the spread of the Internet to transport India's outsourcing boom from metropolitan Bangalore and the suburbs of New Delhi to this speck of a farming village in the Himalayan foothills.

Debra Hodges filled  her store with more than a thousand gowns purchased from a cancer charity to help cancer patients and brides on a budget.

But for the first time in forever, the future of the Snakepit, established 1880, is in doubt.

Restaurant groupies have always been around, but they're more valuable at a time when the economy is forcing consumers to choose carefully when they eat out, and a few online posts can inform the opinions of thousands.

Prince William, with his new wife watching, starred Saturday in a charity a polo match that brought the crowd pouring onto the field in the most spontaneous moment of the couple's visit to Southern California so far.

While the ways to experience television have changed dramatically over the past decade with DVDs, digital video recorders and Internet streaming, the brutally inefficient ways of making it have not. There's little incentive to alter things.

For a time, it seemed like everyone in the town of Matehuala, Mexico, wanted the bizarre, half-Aladdin, all-Vegas pointy boots, from little boys attending church ceremonies to teenagers at the discos.

Seconds after Kate Middleton emerged in a ball gown with lace sleeves, designers around the country were sketching her look, setting in motion a mad rush for mass-produced versions that are expected to be in stores as early as late June.