A Nevada oncologist has converted his office's storage room into a chemotherapy room where underinsured cancer patients get his free service and drugs partly paid by Clark County.

Nick Spirtos, director of the Women's Cancer Center of Nevada, also uses cash donation boxes placed throughout the county to help cover the cost of chemotherapy of cancer patients, who have nowhere to go since the state cut budget for its outpatient cancer center at the University Medical Center's oncology clinic early this year.

Champagne sales are nothing to toast to this year. Makers of the bubbly are reeling from the sour economy and feelings its effects. Makers of both inexpensive sparking wines and expensive bottles are feeling the pinch following 2007's strong 4 percent gains, the biggest since the buying frenzy in 1999 to ring in the new millennium.

Nearly 21 million bottles were shipped to the United States from the region of France known as Champagne in 2007. Through August, sales were down 17 percent over the corresponding period last year, according to Sam Heitner, director of the Office of Champagne U.S.A., a trade organization, and that doesn't include the last three months of the year, when much of the Champagne is sold.

The nation won't soon forget the Wal-Mart employee in Long Island, N.Y. who was trampled to death trying to hold back thousands of angry holiday shoppers bursting through sliding glass doors anxious to get their hands on discounted merchandise the day after Thanksgiving. And for the next few weeks, people in Palm Desert, Calif. will likely discuss the two men who shot and killed each other in the aisles of Toys "R" Us, seemingly to settle an argument their girlfriends were having.

Stories like these capture the nation's attention and make headlines around the world. Commentators and newspaper editorials questioned whether greed and consumerism are trumping our values and making the holidays a particularly violent time of year.

Monster Cable Products has filed suit against a chain of glow-in-the-dark mini golf courses, alleging Monster Mini Golf infringes upon their trademark.

Monster Cable says the mini-golf chain could be confused with the maker of high-end cabling for high-definition television and other electronics.

A 25-year-old British women in Austria has given birth to a set of identical triplets, something that only happens in one out of 200 million births.

Mae Christina Astley gave birth to three girls she called Amy, Kim and Zoe by Caesarean in western Austria Monday.