Updated: 9:03 AM Company's are giving out extra incentives for using your gift cards

Posted: 4:49 PM A strike by 14,500 longshoremen has been averted.

Updated: 4:57 PM Progress Energy Florida is seeing a new utility bill payment scam.

Posted: 8:24 AM New Year’s Day consistently ranks as deadliest day for alcohol-related fatalities.

Posted: 4:20 PM Gov. Scott and executives of Florida's largest ports are trying to avert port strikes.

Updated: 4:57 PM The 'fiscal cliff' threatens across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts with the new year.

Posted: 3:53 PM Gun rights advocates plan to offer gun training for 200 Utah teachers.

Posted: 10:45 AM The ex-con who lured two firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of gunfire left a rambling typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people,".

Updated: 4:57 PM Automatic budget cuts and tax increases are set to begin in January.

Updated: 3:33 PM An aggressive winter storm has killed 9.

Updated: 3:24 PM The National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre today called on Congress to put armed law enforcement agents in every American school.

Updated: 10:28 PM Scientists say predictions of an impending apocalypse are a bunch of hogwash.

Updated: 4:57 PM The New Year's Ball set to drop in Times Square, will have 288 crystal panels decorated with doves to mark the theme 'Let There Be Peace.'

Updated: 4:57 PM With security stepped up and families still on edge in Newtown, students began returning to school Tuesday.

Updated: 8:20 AM Democrats say meaningful action in the wake of last week's U.S. school shooting must include a ban on military-style assault weapons and a look at how the country deals with individuals suffering from serious mental illness.

Updated: 5:28 PM The president teared up, at times using an index finger to wipe at the corner of his eyes, as he addressed the nation from the White House.

Updated: 4:57 PM Twenty children were killed Friday in a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left a total of 27 people dead, including the gunman, the police said.

Updated: 6:15 PM December 7th 2012 is the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II.

Updated: 8:56 PM Fiscal cliff negotiations continue in Washington, with both political parties working to find a resolution.

Posted: 10:23 PM A 63-year-old Everett, Wash., man has been sentenced to six months in jail for fatally stabbing his ex- girlfriend's parrot with a serving fork.

Updated: 12:01 PM Lottery officials say a 52-year-old mechanic from northwest Missouri holds one of the two tickets matching all six numbers in the record $588 million Powerball jackpot.

Posted: 5:50 PM Authorities in Chile are keeping 16 suspects in jail while they investigate an alleged child prostitution ring.

Updated: 1:00 PM BP is to pay 4.5 billion in a settlement with the US government. Two company employees are being charged with manslaughter.

Updated: 12:28 AM Florida A&M University is offering to pay $300,000 to the family of a drum major who died last year after he was beaten during a hazing ritual.

Updated: 1:48 PM Florida lead the fight against the Affordable Care Act (or Obama Care) at the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. The Governor then chose not to seek federal funds for health care that are optional under the act. However, health care could very much be on the front burner again.