Lifestyle and Budget

U.S. tourists are roaming the streets of Old Havana, listening to lectures on Art Deco architecture and meeting with jazz musicians.

Missouri's largest electric company said Monday that it plans to invest $135 million in energy efficiency programs for customers over a three-year period.

Despite an early start, sales data provided to The Associated Press shows that stores may once again have to rely on procrastinators to save the holiday shopping season.

Colorado was poised Wednesday to award more than $8 million for medical marijuana research, a step toward addressing complaints that little is known about pot's medical potential.

Shoppers at an eastern Massachusetts toy store are getting an early Christmas present: All their layaway bills totaling $20,000 have been paid off by an anonymous woman dubbed "layaway angel." Employees at the Toys R Us in Bellingham, about 40 miles southwest of Boston, told The Milford Daily News (http://bit.ly/1DowWID ) that the woman paid off all 150 of the store's layaway accounts Wednesday.

The felines are fighting back — on the bookshelf.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc. shares plunged Friday after the teen retailer gave a weak profit forecast for the key holiday shopping season.

The holiday shopping season is always a make-or-break period for struggling retailers.

The crowds of bargain shoppers rushing through store doors the day after Thanksgiving are thinning out.

Before some people opened their eyes, Black Friday was already well underway.

An estimated 600,000 Nevada shoppers hit stores on Black Friday while others used the day to make a point on behalf of the retail workers who stocked the shelves and rang up the purchases.

Stores are welcoming a second wave of shoppers in what has become a two-day kickoff to the holiday shopping season.

Turkey, stuffing and a helium-filled Thomas the Tank Engine are on the menu as friends and families gather across the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Falling gas prices.

Wal-Mart's chief merchandising officer for its namesake U.S. division has left as the discounter makes leadership changes to perk up sales only days before the start of crucial holiday shopping season.

Thanksgiving could be the best day to shop all year.

Thanksgiving could be the best day to shop all year.

That's not mistletoe.

Whether women pay more than men for comparable products and services depends on what they're buying — and where they're buying it.

The ex-wife of energy giant Continental Resources Inc. CEO Harold Hamm plans to appeal a judge's ruling that awarded her nearly $1 billion in a divorce settlement.