March 6, 2012 A Livonia man is suing the AMC Theater chain because the price of snacks is too high.
Joshua Thompson paid $8 for a box of candy and a Coke, and has since filed a class-action lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court.
I have news for you, Joshua, and yes, I'm using all caps because I am indeed yelling:
March 2, 2012 Last year consumers fought back, and won, after Bank of America began instituting debit card fees. Never one to say quit when it comes to collecting more fee's, Bank of America is now trying out new charges that can be applied on checking accounts.
A man in Indiana won the $34.5 million lottery jackpot, but never got divorced so his estranged wife wants a piece of the winnings. He took a lump sum of $15.9 million and the woman claims the couple has been married for four years and have two kids together. She says they never got divorced and recently got back together, after separating for a while.
For the second time in less than a week, prices at the pump have jumped. This time up to $3.69 a gallon. Petroleum industry analysts have speculated that the price could be over $4 a gallon as a national average by April. Talk of $5 a gallon by Memorial Day is being bandied about.
Whitney Houston may have had one of the most recognizable voices in pop music, which brought her great success, fame and fortune. Apparently, the singer’s financial resources may have dwindled down to almost nothing, since her family sold footage of her celebrity-attended funeral to a variety of global media outlets.
Facing huge budget shortfalls, the United States Postal Service has proposed solutions including closing hundreds of post offices and eliminating Saturday deliveries. Now it may be considering jacking up the price of stamps, too.
Over the last few months, there has been some data that suggests the sluggish economy could be improving. Mainly, the unemployment rate, which has dropped to 8.3 percent after reaching a 26-year high of 10 percent in late 2009. However, according to a new survey from Poll Postion, the public is split on whether America is entering into a period of economic recovery.
Freelancing allows you to make money on your own terms without permanent employment, but it also means you don’t have access to certain perks like group insurance, administrative support and job growth assistance. Though, since a reported 30 percent of the US workforce is now freelance, that has changed.
Target stores say they can tell when someone is pregnant based on their spending habits and recently knew before someone's father. One dad went to Target to yell at them because they were sending coupons for baby items to his daughter and he wanted them to stop mailing them. Come to find out, the teen was pregnant and he went back to the store to apologize.
Ticket prices for movies recently hit an all-time high of almost $8.00, and with the current state of the economy, that’s meant a lot of people don’t head to cineplexes as often as they used to.
But that doesn’t mean folks aren’t seeing movies — they’re just finding more cost-effective ways to do it.
If you filed your taxes electronically, you may be wondering where your refund is. And, if you visited the IRS website’s “Where’s my refund?” page, you may have been given an error message that says the IRS has no information about your return.
