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.