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To change or not to change the last name – as a newlywed, that's the biggest question you face after the "I do's. " Taking hubbie's last name is traditionally considered the way to go, but the reasons for bucking the trend are many: Personal identity, professional affiliation, and the plain old hassle of legally changing your name. Still, 88 percent of women make the switch, according to a 2008 study by TheKnot.com, a wedding planning web site. And six in 10 brides say their new last name was the biggest change in their post-wedding lives.

Jose Baez just can't seem to stay away from controversy. In the nearly three years he's represented Casey Anthony — whose case has enough drama of its own — Baez has been linked to a "spokesman" who tried to extort a journalist, and was working with lawyer Todd Macaluso until he got in trouble with the California Bar last year. Now, Baez is working with a woman who's married to a killer sitting on Florida's death row. The latest revelation came during jury selection this week, when mitigation specialist Rosalie Bolin appeared at the defense table with Anthony.

Publix is changing its rules for redeeming coupons, placing limits on their use and which ones it will accept in many cases. The new policy, announced Wednesday, comes as the Lakeland-based supermarket giant and other grocery chains deal with rising food prices and an explosion in the popularity of coupon clipping. As of May 23, Publix stores will no longer accept coupons from drugstores such as CVS and Walgreens for anything other than prescriptions. Competitors' coupons can be used only for identical products — not on purchases of store brands or foods such as meat from the butcher's department.

Jon Bon Jovi , of course, has seen a million faces and he's rocked them all. Yeah, that lyric sounded silly in 1986 and it hasn't evolved into anything that's any less embarrassing after 25 years. Then or now, you don't want to be caught by the motorist in the next lane belting out " Wanted Dead or Alive " along with the car radio. But give credit to Bon Jovi, and the band that bears his name. With a loaded six-string on his back, he has persevered through grunge , boy bands , rap-metal and his own flirtation with country music to emerge as an unassailable vanguard of arena rock.

The Villages linebacker Noor Davis will play his college football at Stanford. At a press conference at the Villages Charter School on Friday, Davis went through a recap of his recruiting process, said his thank-yous and then said, "it was my dream to have my little brother pick out my hat. "So Gabriel, we don't have to wait 'til January. I'm ready now, are you ready?" Gabriel shook his head, everyone stood and after an uneasy pause, he picked up the Stanford hat for Noor to place on his head.

Jonathan Alper has gotten a spate of calls from people who tell him they plan to hit the jackpot with their next investment — in the Iraqi dinar. So certain are the would-be investors of the expected returns on their foreign-currency trades that they are afraid of being targeted by creditors or the Internal Revenue Service. So they call Alper, a Lake Mary lawyer and asset-protection specialist, hoping to shelter their anticipated bounty. "I've had nearly a half-dozen calls in the past year like that," Alper said recently.

Walt Disney Co. revealed a few details about the popularity of its cruise line last week as it discussed its fiscal second-quarter earnings with stock analysts. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said the company's three-ship fleet is more than 95 percent booked for the current quarter (spring), 86 percent booked for the fourth quarter (summer) and almost 60 percent booked for the company's fiscal first quarter (fall). "Which is pretty interesting, considering the new ship has 4,000 guests on it, a considerable number of staterooms," Iger said.

Inside Disney's Star Tours, workers are prepping walls, high-definition screens and assorted droids for the attraction's grand reopening next Friday at Hollywood Studios. Outside Star Tours, anticipation is building among Star Wars and Disney enthusiasts, so much so that a few fans wait at the attraction's entrance every day, in case there's an unannounced preview of the simulator thrill ride. The revamping of Star Tour represents the highest-profile addition to the Disney World parks in 2011.

Is anybody else wondering why Tiger Woods is falling apart right before our very eyes? Why the aches and pains and strained tendons and ruptured ligaments are starting to happen more and more often? Why his body simply doesn't recover as quickly as it once could and why his ball doesn't travel as far as it once did? Anybody else wondering if Tiger's prolonged winless streak is due more to the fact that his old swing coach has been fired or the fact that his old blood doctor has been indicted?

Meet tiny Dancer, a rust-colored, long-haired Chihuahua that may just be the world's smallest dog, weighing 18 ounces and standing not much more than 4 inches tall. Dancer's owner, Jenny Gomes, said the diminutive Lake County canine may be on his way to being named the world's smallest living dog by Guinness World Records. And Dancer may have a legitimate claim to the title. The last smallest dog -- measured by height -- was Danka Kordak of Slovakia, which stood 5.4 inches high, according to Guinness officials.

A Saudi Arabian student who investigators say spat in the face of a Walmart customer after the customer told her she was going in the wrong door remains in jail on a hate-crime charge, Palm Bay police said. Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi, 31, an engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, was being held late Tuesday at the Brevard County Jail. Bail is set at $5,000. Al-Doaifi was arrested Sunday on a charge of battery. The hate-crime determination means the charge could be elevated to a felony, said Yvonne Martinez, a police spokeswoman.

Another twist in the Casey Anthony case? Who'd have thought? After a mysterious "private matter" halted the much-anticipated jury selection process on Wednesday — spurring speculation about a plea deal for Anthony or the possibility that her attorney, Jose Baez, had fallen ill — everyone is expected to return to court this morning to resume the painstaking process. Just before court broke for lunch, Perry made it clear that he expected opening statements to begin Monday morning in his Orange County Courtroom.

"Can we eat now?" asked Jackson Middle School sixth-grader Alexandria Johnson, sitting at a desk in the back row of Theresa Perreault's classroom. "Because I'm hungry. " After getting a 'yes,' Alexandria pulled open the metallic wrapper holding a warm turkey sausage biscuit and bit off nearly half of the breakfast sandwich. In the few weeks since her school has begun offering breakfast in the classroom, Alexandria said she's been eating every day and seeing a difference. At first, she thought adults pushing breakfast were just trying to get rid of school food.

As the curtain falls on the 2010-11 college football season, it's time to start thinking about next season. To get you fired up for next year, here is our 2011-12 college football preseason rankings. No. 1 Oklahoma Buzz: Hard not to argue that the Sooners should be the No. 1 team. They return QB Landry Jones and WR Ryan Broyles but need to replace RB DeMarco Murray. No. 2 Oregon Buzz: The Ducks are primed to make another run at the BCS title with QB Darron Thomas and LaMichael James both back to a very talented offense.

The Food and Drug Administration is urging consumers not to use a weight-loss product called Fruta Planta because it has been associated with several heart attacks and one death. The maker of the product, Kissimmee-based PRock Marketing, is recalling all lots of Fruta Planta and another product called Reduce Weight Fruta Planta. It is the same product, marketed under two different names. FDA testing of the product found that the weight-loss product contains sibutramine, a drug that was pulled from the market in December for safety reasons.