Here's how experts advise wringing out the full value of cards you receive this Christmas. ...more

December 25, 2009

There was a time when free shipping was a rare deal. This holiday season, you might feel it's your right as a paying customer. ...more

December 5, 2009

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd has waited 28 years for Paul Johnson's execution. It looks like he's going to have to wait a little longer. ...more

October 29, 2009

The roughly 21,000 Florida residents whose credit card information may have been accessed by a hacker who got into records of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts last year should monitor their credit reports, the state's attorney general warned today. ...more

February 16, 2009

I graduated last spring - my dorm-room food wasn't exactly up there with the kind of food I was used to back home. ...more

August 20, 2008

Making ends meet on food stamps has never been easy for Cassandra Johnson, but since food prices began their steep climb this year, she has had to develop new survival strategies. ...more

June 22, 2008

It's a tempting offer: Free prescription medications for people who need them the most - the poor, the uninsured, the homeless. Families of people who have died from diabetes, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease call the Judeo Christian Health Clinic in Tampa every week hoping to donate leftover medications. Some bottles are full or hardly used and bear price tags in the hundreds of dollars. But the clinic's executive director, Kelly Nelson, must decline. "We can't use them," she says, "Unfortunately." ...more

May 30, 2008

Patches containing the prescription painkiller fentanyl were recalled Tuesday because of a flaw that could cause patients or caregivers to overdose on the potent drug inside. ...more

February 13, 2008

Gift cards are more popular this year and are easier to use, thanks to key rulings by the Federal Trade Commission and efforts by a number of states to regulate them, several retail experts said. ...more

December 18, 2007