Piano man to diaper man: Elton John becomes a dad

LOS ANGELES — Sir Elton John is holding close a new tiny dancer. The piano man and husband David Furnish have become parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy born on Christmas Day. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via a surrogate, whose identity is being protected by the new parents. Zachary is 62-year-old John’s first child with the 48-year-old Furnish. The couple married in 2005.

How to Match Coupons to Sales

Q: “Jill, I’ve read your last few columns with great interest. I like your ‘clipless’ method, cutting only the coupons we need, so I save the whole coupon insert every week now. I also signed up with a grocery list service that does a great job of matching coupons to the sales at the big supermarket in my town. I have a question, though, about how to do this at other stores. We have a smaller grocer in town that has great sales and I’d like to cut only the coupons I need and use them on sales here, too. How do I do that?”

The Cold-Weather Inspection

A home inspector will point out obvious concerns to a prospective buyer, such as how well the furnace performs.

Rental Restrictions

Like a lot of other people we are facing foreclosure. How difficult will it be to rent an apartment or house with a foreclosure on our credit report?

Building Blocks

Those perhaps most affected by the housing slowdown are also the ones most poised to lead its resurgence: the small businesses that dominate the housing industry.

Holiday perfect for tax tweaks

Accountants say it’s never too early to think about taxes, because a few financial adjustments before Jan. 1 could make a big difference in your IRS bill come April.

Defense sparks Liberty to skid-busting victory

The start of the holiday break wasn’t kind to Liberty’s boys basketball team, which went 0-4 in the Foothill Holiday Classic, losing by a total of 20 points.

Mother of Ali takes over Rebels volleyball program

What was UNLV thinking, hiring Cindy Fredrick — the mother of Ali Farokhmanesh, the Northern Iowa sharpshooter who sank the Rebels basketball team last March in the NCAA Tournament — to be its new volleyball coach?

In Brief

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New lawmaker stresses roots for beliefs

Cresent Hardy may be new to the state Legislature, but he’s no greenhorn. Hardy, newly elected to represent Assembly District 20 in Clark County, traces his family history in America all the way back to the 1600s when one Thomas Hardy arrived near what is now Essex, Mass.

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