The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously (2-0) to issue a one year stay of enforcement for certain testing and certification requirements for manufacturers and importers of regulated products, including products intended for children 12 years old and younger. These requirements are part of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which added certification [...]

Amway Global is initiating a voluntary recall on three of our NUTRILITE® energy bars because we have been informed that Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) is one of the peanut paste suppliers that our vendor used to make our energy bars. NUTRILITE® energy bars are sold nationwide through direct sales.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing recommendations to the regions affected by severe winter weather in Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. Power outages can occur at any time of the year and it often takes from a few hours to several days for electricity to be restored to residential areas.

North Little Rock-based Brent and Sam’s announced a voluntary recall of two flavors of Archer Farms cookies as a precautionary measure due to the recall expansion of Peanut Corporation of America’s Blakely, Georgia facility. The recalled Archer Farms cookies were sold at Target and Super Target stores nationwide.

Some of America’s most cash-strapped taxpayers - those from low- and moderate-income families - spent about $900 million in the latest year recorded for what is almost always an unnecessary product: the so-called “refund anticipation loan” at income tax time. With the opening of another tax season, consumer advocates at the National Consumer Law Center [...]

The Internal Revenue Service announced that taxpayers in Delaware, Illinois, New York and Rhode Island who file paper income tax returns will send them to different processing centers this year.

Almost three out of every five Americans have not purchased life insurance because they think it is too expensive, even though the cost of these policies has remained stable or even dropped over the past decade.

As a bartender at The Press Bar in St. Cloud, Kern Anderson has seen counterfeit bills before. He uses a brown pen to mark $10 bills and higher. If the mark on the bill is the same color as the pen, the bill is legit.

In tough times, burglary and property crimes often spike. So how do you protect your home without draining your wallet? A flimsy lock, an open window, a ringing phone – they’re all invitations to a burglar to rob your home, and all easily preventable.

Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. The makers of the tracking systems say the software can determine the viewer’s gender, approximate age range and, in some cases, ethnicity — and can change the ads accordingly.