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Higher gas prices and a demand for smaller used cars -- like the Ford Focus, Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla -- has driven up the price that dealerships are willing to pay for trade-ins to the highest they've been in at least 16 years, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association's used...

Spring is traditionally a busy shopping season for those looking for a new car, but it's also open season on consumers for scammers looking to take unsuspecting victims for a ride, warns a consumer watchdog. The National Consumers League, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit watchdog, says its Fraud...

Vitaminwater's advertising and labeling claims are "dangerously misleading," a consumer group said in a formal complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission, which urged the commission to halt what it says are deceptive statements being made by its manufacturer. The National Consumers League,...

Obama's decision to tap Elizabeth Warren as advisor for a new financial watchdog group has raised the ire of consumer and business advocates, who argue that her appointment undercut the goals of clarity and transparency.

College students have enough to worry about without falling prey to scammers looking to steal their identities and good credit. "Identity thieves don't care if you're a struggling student and don't have a penny to your name; sometimes all they want is to exploit your clean credit record," says...

A national consumer group says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should set minimum sanitary and safety standards for pallets used to transport food, after tests revealed the presence of bacteria that cause food poisoning. "We believe it is essential to ensure that pathogens are not introduced...

Scams targeting those who can least afford to be ripped off continue to be among the most prevalent frauds committed, according to the National Consumer League's just released 2009 Fraud Center report. Topping the list are phony check scams, which now make up more than 42 percent of all...

Nearly 45% of people reporting being scammed were ripped off using a phony check scheme -- by far the largest type of fraud reported in the first six months of this year, according to the National Consumers League. The average dollar loss in that type of scam: $3,178.The group said top-reported...

At long last, President Obama has named his choice for a new leader of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. But the choice of Inez Tenenbaum is a bit out of left field. She is a prominent Democrat, rumored at one point to become Obama's education secretary. She has no background in product...