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The Indiana attorney general's office confirmed Monday it is investigating a security breach in which Social Security numbers and other personal information were posted online for roughly 44,000 low-income Americans who applied for a federal program that provides discount Internet and phone service.

NEW YORK The Small Business Administration says it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans.

Americans got better about paying their credit card debt on time in the first three months of the year, a period when many borrowers use income tax returns to tackle their holiday season debt.

The purchase price of Miami's highly rated City National Bank of Florida is at the center of a potential criminal case now unfolding in Spain.

Hurricanes and severe storms are a part of summertime in Northern Virginia and experts are predicting a number of Hurricane experts predict that this year's hurricane season could yield four major hurricanes this year in the Atlantic in the 2013 season.

In order to get in on hot housing markets, amateur investors are buying up homes and taking risky measures -- like tapping their retirement accounts -- to fund the deals.

The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to employees of a privately-held contractor or the subcontractor of a publicly-held company.

A big brother you can trust to keep you safe, give you a hand and do right by you? Or a big brother who snoops, lies and bullies you in all corners of your life? There's a common thread running through a series of controversies dogging President Barack Obama: the federal government, and conflicting interpretations of what it is.

More than five months after the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook shootings, the town clerk's office remains steadfast in its refusal to release death certificates of the victims.

I would like to start putting some money away for my young grandson's college education.

Americans may be living longer, but our retirement plans aren't keeping up. Which means people are living longer with smaller bank accounts.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has urged successor Mark Carney not to bring to Britain his trademark policy of spelling out how long interest rates will remain low.

Tens of thousands of applicants to the Lifeline federal phone subsidy have been placed at heightened risk for identity theft after their Social Security numbers, birth dates and other pieces of highly sensitive information were included in files posted publicly online.

Having a credit check ran on you is not the same as having a background check conducted on you.

The outgoing governor of the Bank of England has warned that George Osborne's plan to boost the housing market is "too close for comfort" to a general state guarantee for mortgages.

Patch has launched a new site, Small Business Patch , to educate and empower small businesses with the digital tools, social media strategies and marketing know-how needed to ensure long-term growth.

Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase & Co cut off the bank's opponents from polling information.

The Miami-Dade Expressway Authority is well known for the busy toll roads it operates such as the Dolphin Expressway or the Gratigny Parkway.

The stock rose $7.70, or 59.2 percent, to $20.70 in afternoon trading. The shares were priced at $13, at the high end of the expected range of $11 to $13 per share.

Due to the extreme penalties behind missing jury duty, scammers are preying on victims' fear of legal action by pretending to be "jury duty coordinators" questioning consumers about recent jury duty summons.