Pawn shops enter holiday-shopping fray

As retailers like Tiffany & Co., Saks Inc., Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vie for last-minute holiday sales, customers are being drawn away by a growing crop of competitors: pawn shops. From Las Vegas and Los Angeles to Miami andOrlando, pawn shops appear to have shed their stigma and become a holiday-shopping destination.“It’s crazy. Our stores are just packed...

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Have plans for Saturday? Oops

You should probably be reading this story a little faster. According to the ancient Mayans, the world is going to end Friday. In fact, it may already be gone, since it’s Saturday in Australia. So don’t be surprised if you step out the door and see nothing but smoking ruins and — if you live in Coral Gables, where strict zoning laws prohibit the apocalypse or pickup trucks...

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Huge Savings With MyBatua Season’s Sale

The online Islamic clothing store MyBatua.com brings more reasons to smile. The Store announces huge discounts and assured gifts on every purchase of women Abayas, kurtis and Jibabs.(PRWEB) December 21, 2012MyBatua.com has extended its seasonal sale on Islamic clothing range for a fortnight to appreciate the huge response of buyers. Being one of the most renowned stores for a vibrant range of Islamic...

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Disney's New Holiday Classic

ET's kid reporter Lauren Kaplan is introducing your family to what's sure to become a new holiday movie tradition.RELATED: New on Blu-ray & DVDDisney's Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups stars a brand-new litter of puppies bringing comedy that the whole family will love. Hope, Jingle, Charity and Noble are on a mission to save Christmas around the world when the holiday spirit starts to dwindle. Watch...

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Spring-ing to life

The much sought-after 529 Broadway, a two-story building on the northwest corner of Spring Street in the middle of a busy shopping district, has been sold for $150 million to Jeff Sutton, Joe Sitt, the Adjmi family and Bobby Cayre’s Aurora Capital. The 22,500-square-feet property, the subject of an off-market bidding war, will be emptied and razed....

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For the New York Stock Exchange, a sell order

NEW YORK -- The Big Board just isn’t so big anymore. In a deal that highlights the dwindling stature of what was once a centerpiece of capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange is being sold to a little-known rival for $8 billion – $3 billion less than it would have fetched in a proposed takeover just last year. The buyer is IntercontinentalExchange, a 12-year-old exchange...

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Religious leaders in Miami-Dade to help remember tragedy in Newtown

South Florida religious leaders will be remembering in the coming days the 20 children and six adults killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. On Friday, all Archdiocese of Miami schools will have a moment of prayer at 9:32 a.m. The archdiocese’s churches also will ring their bells 26 times in observance of those killed.On Sunday, Temple...

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Five Things You Don't Know About Daniel Day-Lewis

This two-time Academy Award winning actor is getting Oscar buzz again for his lead portrayal in Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic Lincoln. Here are five things you probably don't know about Daniel Day-Lewis. 1. While playing the role of Bill the Butcher in 2002's Gangs of New York, said he listened to rapper Eminem on the set to keep up his "level of aggression."RELATED: Lincoln Sweeps...

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Mom left school gunman Adam Lanza alone for days before school massacre: report

APA police cruiser sits in the driveway as crime scene tape surrounds the home of Nancy and Adam Lanza.Mass murderer Adam Lanza spent two and half days home alone with his mom’s arsenal of weapons, giving him plenty of time to hatch one of America’s worst school shootings, according to broadcast report today. Before Lanza slaughtered 20 kids and six educators...

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UBS agrees to pay $1.5 billion in settlement of Libor probe

In the largest fine issued so far in a probe of interest-rate manipulation by major banks, UBS has agreed to pay $1.5 billion in a settlement with U.S. and European authorities. The Switzerland-based bank said it had reached settlements with the Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the U.S. as well as with British and Swiss authorities. A...

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