Credit and Debt

Neighbors tried to intervene as teacher allegedly killed ex-wife

2013-06-17 00:00:00

Los Angeles police continued to search Sunday for a 46-year-old elementary school teacher who they said stabbed his estranged wife and left her to die on a quiet residential street in West Hills as neighbors rushed to her side. Michael Rodney Kane...

Gov. Brown targets enterprise-zone tax credits

2013-06-15 21:52:00

SACRAMENTO — A battle is raging over a California program that grants businesses tax breaks for creating jobs but prevents the public from knowing who got them and why. At issue are enterprise zones, which were established to boost employment in...

Car leasing hits record levels

2013-06-15 05:00:00

Once used mostly to move luxury cars, leasing has reached record levels, helped by easing credit restrictions and a move downmarket. Leases on Jaguars and BMWs remain plentiful, but the most-leased cars in America are now the Honda Civic, Toyota Camry,...

L.A. measure to cap marijuana shops passed with citywide support

2013-06-14 11:23:00

A ballot measure to cap the number of medical marijuana shops in Los Angeles won in last month's election with support from nearly every corner of the city, according to a Times analysis of election returns. Proposition D received majority support in...

Gear: You can charge with this card, thanks to a built-in USB plug

2013-06-08 07:30:00

How frustrating to be traveling and in need of a USB cable, and discover that you left yours at home. No problem. Just reach into your wallet and pull out the ChargeCard. No, not the credit card, but the ChargeCard credit-card-size USB charging cable....

Competition is heating up in mobile payment system industry

2013-06-13 03:00:00

Forget ka-ching. Its all tap-tap these days. Restaurants and shop owners fed up with antiquated cash registers and expensive credit card terminals are switching to cheaper devices that plug into smartphones and tablets. And companies such as PayPal,...

Standard & Poor's upgrades outlook for U.S. credit rating

2013-06-10 09:58:00

WASHINGTON -- Standard & Poor's, which downgraded the U.S. credit rating nearly two years ago, said Monday it was more optimistic about the nation's long-term fiscal situation and had removed the negative outlook from the rating. The automatic federal...

More for Your Money: Securing Chip and PIN cards ahead of time

2013-06-10 00:00:00

A couple of recent On the Spot columns (www.lat.ms/19uSnX6 and http://www.lat.ms/11J5PFc) dealt with making sure that travelers have a credit card that's compatible with foreign systems. Many U.S. cards have a magnetic stripe. They are,...

Produced By Conference: A 'gold rush' out of L.A. for tax credits

2013-06-10 07:00:00

California, beware: Film producers are increasingly sizing up rivals in emerging regional production centers outside of Hollywood, from Pittsburgh to Atlanta. That was the blunt, but all too familiar, message delivered at a panel Sunday at the fifth...

High prices are driving more motorists to rent tires

2013-06-08 08:00:00

When the tires on their Dodge Caravan had worn so thin that the steel belts were showing through, Don and Florence Cherry couldn't afford to buy a new set. So they decided to rent instead. The Rich Square, N.C., couple last September agreed to pay...

Left cash at home? Venmo helps users pay with their smartphones

2013-06-09 10:35:00

If you are one of those people who rarely carry cash or forget to take it along, there's a smartphone app that might interest you. Venmo, a digital wallet company, has an app that makes it easy to exchange money, split bills and make good on IOUs....

Californians uneasy about fracking's safety, lack of oversight

2013-06-07 05:30:00

As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll....

U.S. credit card companies are beginning to offer "smart" credit cards--that is, cards with the chips used by many foreign merchants.

2013-06-09 14:45:09

MIAMI BEACH -- Cops say David Weber broke into a car in a parking garage in Miami Beach and swiped a credit card from inside the vehicle, reports The Miami Herald.

2013-06-06 00:00:00

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This man is suspected of using stolen credit card information to buy more than $4,000 of computer equipment from a Wellington Best Buy

2013-05-31 00:00:00