Shopping carts will soon be running through the aisles where the rides and midway games of Kiddieland once stood.

Ford is the only Big Three automaker to be cited by Consumer Reports as producing cars with "world class reliability," according to the magazine's latest survey. Asian brands again dominated the magazine's 2009 Annual Car Reliability Survey, with eight of

There is a warning about a new scam that could cost you big bucks. It involves text messages claiming to be from Chase Bank.

The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to tap Google Inc. for government e-mail and other Internet services. The Council Members voted unanimously Tuesday for the $7.2 million deal with contractor Computer Sciences Corp. to replace

Stocks mostly fell Tuesday as mixed reports on home prices and consumer confidence gave investors little incentive to step into the market. A decision by IBM Corp. to double its stock-repurchase plan propped up the Dow Jones industrials, but the

Consumers' confidence about the U.S. economy fell unexpectedly inOctober as job prospects remained bleak, a private research group saidTuesday, fueling speculation that an already gloomy holiday shoppingforecast could worsen.

A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit'sthousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to drawattention to foreclosures that have battered the region.

Home prices rose for the third straight month in August, data Tuesdayshowed, a key sign for a broad and sustained housing recovery. TheStandard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 major citiesclimbed 1 percent from July to a seasonally adjusted

The government will release figures this week expected to show that theeconomy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is inthe early stages of a recovery. But the following week, the governmentwill issue another set of figures

The Ricketts family now officially owns the Cubs and Wrigley Field after a financial closing Monday.

Loraine Mullen-Kress carries a Bank of America credit card and religiously pays off her balance. "Flawless credit," she boasts. Yet now, her good credit habits could cost her. Earlier this month Bank of America started notifying customers like Mullen-Kress that

Every week in Denver county there are anywhere between 100 and 150homes that go into foreclosure, CBS station KCNC-TV reports. That's according to Stephanie Fix withRE/MAX, a realtor who specializes in what are called short sales -- aprocess that can

PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year. Sony Corp. and the DVD

Paranormal Activity" has won a weekend battle of fright films over part six of the "Saw" franchise. Paramount'supstart chiller "Paranormal Activity" went into nationwide release andtook over the No. 1 spot with $22 million. That compares to just $14.8million for

Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in Augustafter drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative,according to university officials.

Mark McGwire is back in baseball, reunited with Tony La Russa as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach.La Russa agreed to return for a 15th year as manager Monday with a one-year contract, the first time he hasn't had a

Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes has agreed to sell the bankrupt franchise to the NHL. The agreement, which still must be approved by Judge Redfield T. Baum, was announced in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Monday after attorneys met for more

Will it be cheesesteaks or cheesecakes? The U.S. senators representing the states of Pennsylvania and New York are betting local delicacies in a friendly wager over the World Series, CBS station WCBS-TV reported.If the Yankees win, Sens. Charles Schumer and

The ESPN production assistant whose affair with baseball analyst Steve Phillips led to his termination has also been fired from the sports network, a spokesman said Monday. Mike Soltys, a representative of ESPN, said Monday that 22-year-old Brooke Hundley had

Hundreds of friends and team mates have joined family members at a Miami church to say their final farewells to University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard who was stabbed to death last weekend.