Lessons from the pros: Diversify, watch your assets and treat your whole life like an investment portfolio. Legally, hedge funds can be marketed only to people with net worths of at least a million dollars. Feel left out? You shouldn't.

The Suburban Ranches Riding Club is rallying around a young man who was injured while riding a horse at the club’s arena. The club will be hosting a 5-D Barrel Race fundraiser Sept. 14.

With soaring gas prices leading car dealers to roll out promotion after promotion, sellers of lighter vehicles, such as scooters and mopeds, are finding their businesses rolling along nicely.

When he opened his Vespa of Toledo motor scooter dealership a year ago, Mike Kookoothe sold 35 of the two-wheeled vehicles during the summer and considered that a roaring success.

CONST. Cole Brewer leaves the hearing room at the Pioneer Complex earlier this week during an inquest into the death of American camper Donald Dwayne Lewis in August 2006. Lewis died of a gunshot wound after an altercation with Brewer.