Ga.'s system to defend the poor still struggling 5 years after costly courthouse killings caseGeorgia's public defender system is still trying to recover its financial footing five years after a courthouse gunman racked up a $3 million taxpayer-funded defense tab on the way to his conviction. The state ...

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Wine sales for 2009 are forecast to be up from last year, in a sign consumers may be regaining some confidence in the economy, a new report shows.</p><p>Market research group Mintel predicts wine ...

<div><p>Even as Chateau Lafite leads a surge for Bordeaux vintners in Asia, US retail prices for the same wines have skidded below wholesale cost as a major importer dumps stocks worth tens of millions of dollars.</p><p>US importer ...