At least once a week a reader emails me to ask whether they can improve their credit with a prepaid card. Although the answer is a bit more complicated than this, I tell them no. If you are rebuilding your credit, the best type of card to use is a secured credit card.

People of all ages pay $2,500 a night to sleep where Snooki and the gang do their reality TV show. 'It's like you are buying 15 minutes of fame,' one says.

Four Georgia men in their 60s and 70s were arrested Tuesday, accused of being members of a right-wing militia group that plotted to attack federal office buildings and to disperse a deadly biological poison in Atlanta.

Updated Nov 2, 2011 2:22 AM ET Embattled Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt agreed Tuesday to sell the ballclub, with the team to be auctioned in bankruptcy court, the Los Angeles Times reported. The sale is expected to include Dodger Stadium and the surrounding parking lots.

The suicide bombing last weekend in Mogadishu - allegedly by a Somali American from Minnesota - has highlighted the important role played by U.S. citizens in the operations of al-Shabab, the Islamic terrorist organization battling the government in the war-torn east African nation.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. - Three people were killed and three others wounded when at least two gunmen opened fire as partygoers left a Northern California warehouse early Sunday, authorities said. The gunmen started shooting as a group of people walked out of the building around 1:20 a.m., San Leandro police Sgt.

STOCKHOLM - A Canadian-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for his discoveries about the immune system but hours later his university said that he had been dead for three days. The Nobel committee had been unaware of Ralph Steinman's death and it was unclear whether the prize would be rescinded because Nobel statutes don't allow posthumous awards.

What we learned during Baltimore's 34-17 dismantling of the Jets on Sunday night. 1. So much for it being a "passing league." Joe Flacco didn't complete a pass for 35 minutes of game action. He finished 10-of-31 for 163 yards and a pick and he was the far better quarterback Sunday night.

CHICAGO - A 71-year-old Washington man accused in the 1957 kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl has been charged in a separate case with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl from the same small town. Illinois State Police announced the grand jury indictment of Jack McCullough on Friday but didn't say when the sexual assault happened.

ACAPULCO, Mexico - The bullet-riddled, bound bodies of seven men were dumped Sunday at a downtown bus stop in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, police said, as drug violence claimed at least 20 people this weekend along a stretch of coastal tourist destinations.

Corporate Income Tax has never been a *smaller* portion of the total tax revenues than it is today. Corporate Income Tax peaked in the 1950s/1960s around 20% of all tax revenues (and that was with paying other taxes that existed then).

Updated Sep 22, 2011 10:17 AM ET Linebacker Bryan Kehl wasn't surprised by the actions by Giants safety Deon Grant and linebacker Jacquian Williams on Monday night when they allegedly faked injuries to slow down the Rams' no-huddle offense and save a timeout in the first quarter. Perry Fewell coaches that," Kehl said.

Jorge Posada came off the bench and helped the Yankees to yet another first-place finish with a go-ahead single in the eighth inning, and New York swept the Tampa Bay Rays by identical 4-2 scores in a day-night doubleheader Wednesday to win the AL East.

JACKSON, Ga. - Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection late Wednesday for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer, maintaining his innocence until the end after convincing thousands of it, but not the justice system. Davis was declared dead at 11:08 p.m. EDT, a prison official said.

JACKSON, Ga. - Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection late Wednesday for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer, maintaining his innocence until the end after convincing thousands of it, but not the justice system. Davis was declared dead at 11:08 p.m. EDT, a prison official said.

A hotheaded Queens bodybuilder killed his dog by tossing it out of a third-floor window - then played dumb, telling cops he was asleep the whole time. Milan Rysa, 30, hurled Brooklyn, a Chinese Shar-Pei weighing about 50 pounds, out of his apartment on Steinway St. in Astoria as he played thumping dance music about 8:30 p.m Monday, police and witnesses said. "I saw it coming out the window," a shocked witness said, declining to give his name. "I heard the yelp when it hit the ground. I heard the thud. It just missed a woman." Witnesses said Rysa looked out the window, saw a crowd gathering near Brooklyn's broken body, then shut off the music and the apartment's lights.

GREENWICH VILLAGE - Police are looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 23-year-old woman as she tried to enter her apartment in Greenwich Village. Police said the woman was entering her apartment at approximately 2:00 a.m. on Thursday last week when a man grabbed her from behind and physically and sexually assaulted her. The victim was taken to a hospital where she was treated and released.

An elderly Texas man who was trapped in his car for two days wrote what he thought was a farewell message on the car's armrest, saying he wasn't trying to kill himself and suggesting the road he was on should be fixed. Robert Porter, 85, drove his car down a steep rural road near his Kerrville home in central Texas early last week to look at a pond. He couldn't get the two-wheel-drive vehicle back up the soft caliche road, and the car rolled off the path and became stuck near the bottom of a ravine