A special vaccine court ruled against parents with autistic children Thursday, saying that vaccines are not to blame for their children's neurological disorder. ...more

February 12, 2009

We've pinched and reorganized our household budgets. But we still often overpay for commercially bottled water. On an annual basis, the typical American consumer spends $1,400 on bottled water versus 49 cents for the same amount of water from our kitchen faucet, according to the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit consumer group in Maryland. ...more

August 21, 2008

Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power. ...more

July 18, 2008

The impact of skyrocketing aviation fuel prices could result in massive job losses, declining business activity and reduced tourism as early as the second half of 2008, the Business Travel Coalition, a Radnor, Pa.,-based business consumer group, warned Monday. ...more

June 24, 2008

U.S. insurance companies systematically overcharge customers and underpay consumers' home and auto claims to pad their already-fat bottom lines, a consumer group said Thursday. ...more

January 11, 2008

More than half of Florida's low-income Medicare beneficiaries who now pay no premiums for their prescription-drug plans will be forced to change plans for 2008 to keep the full subsidy, a consumer group said Thursday. ...more

November 9, 2007

As oil prices climb toward the once unthinkable $100 a barrel level, fears that the U.S. economy could tip into recession also are rising. ...more

November 2, 2007

When a series of killer hurricanes walloped the Gulf Coast in 2005, costing Allstate Corp. a record quarterly loss of $1.55 billion, the company tried to make sure its bottom line would never be hit so hard again. ...more

October 16, 2007

Search for a culprit in the 90 brands in the recent recall of canned chili, stew and other products, and you weave back to a single manufacturer. ...more

September 3, 2007