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How to Find a Good End-Of-Year Deal If You're in the Market for a New Car
While incentives are not as plentiful as they typically are in December, you can still find some makes and models with good deals.
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NBC 5 Responds: How to Lower Car Insurance Costs During the Pandemic
During the pandemic, many insurance companies announced discounts or rate decreases because many drivers were staying off the roads and working from home. But consumer advocates say customers may be able to save more – especially as the pandemic continues to impact driver behavior.
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NBC 5 Responds: How to Lower Car Insurance Costs During the Pandemic
During the pandemic, many insurance companies announced discounts or rate decreases because many drivers were staying off the roads and working from home. But consumer advocates say customers may be able to save more – especially as the pandemic continues to impact driver behavior.
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GM to Offer Auto Insurance That Uses Data From Connected Vehicles to Price Rates
General Motors is launching its own auto insurance as a way to generate new revenue using its growing amount of connected vehicles in the U.S.
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State Farm Announces $2 Billion Rebate For Auto Insurance Customers
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company on Thursday announced a $2 billion rebate for their customers to help them through challenging financial times during the coronavirus pandemic. “With schools and businesses closed, and many of us sheltering in our homes, people are driving less right now, so we’re returning value to customers as we anticipate fewer auto claims,” the Bloomington,…
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Democrat Edwards Wins Reelection in Conservative Louisiana
Deep in the heart of the conservative South, Louisiana’s voters reelected Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards to a second term, shocking Republicans who had hoped to reclaim the seat on the strength of President Donald Trump’s popularity. With his focus on bipartisan, state-specific issues, the moderate Edwards cobbled together enough cross-party support Saturday to defeat Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, getting...
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Consumer Reports Offers Tips to Lower Homeowners Insurance
Buying homeowners insurance isn’t a particularly sexy task. It’s a decision that hinges on getting enough coverage, especially without overpaying. Consumer Reports can help homeowners find the delicate balance to ensure that their homes and its contents are well-protected at the best price.
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Consumer Reports Offers Tips to Lower Homeowners Insurance
Buying homeowners insurance isn’t a particularly sexy task. It’s a decision that hinges on getting enough coverage, especially without overpaying. Consumer Reports can help homeowners find the delicate balance to ensure that their homes and its contents are well-protected at the best price.
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Volunteers Needed to Help Give Cancer Patients a Ride to Treatment
The American Cancer Society’s “Road to Recovery” program provides patients transportation to and from their cancer treatments.
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Halloween Is The Scariest Day of The Year for This Financial Shock
Halloween could be scarier for your budget than anticipated: Homeowners and auto insurance claims tend to jump during the holiday. On average, Halloween has 17 percent more home claims for theft, vandalism and other crimes than any other day of the year, according to a new assessment from Travelers. That includes problems like doors kicked in, mailboxes knocked down and...
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Sears Through the Years: From Watch Seller to Tower Builder
Sears got its start as a watch seller more than 130 years ago and grew to become one of the world’s largest retailers. But the company has struggled in recent years and on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Consumer Says Wells Fargo Opened Auto Insurance in His Name
Last year, you may recall that Wells Fargo admitted to charging as many as 570,000 consumers for car insurance they didn’t need.
The bank apologized and agreed to pay back all of its affected customers. But after waiting on his refund for months, one Carrollton man called NBC 5 Responds. -
Consumers Say Auto Shop Holding Cars, Ripping Off Consumers
Two consumers call NBC 5 after “getting the run around” from an auto shop owner. They say their cars have been stuck in the shop for more than a year and the owner refuses to offer refund.
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Violence Followed Texas Church Gunman After High School
Wherever Devin Patrick Kelley went after graduating from high school, a trail of violence followed. In New Mexico, Kelley was kicked out of the Air Force following a court-martial two years after he enlisted for abusing his wife and reportedly hitting her child hard enough to fracture his skull. In Colorado, he was charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty after someone...
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‘Domestic Situation' in Devin Patrick Kelley's Family Preceded Texas Church Massacre
A 26-year-old man who had been sending his mother-in-law threatening text messages put on a ballistic vest and a black mask with a white skull face and killed 26 people with an assault rifle at her church in southern Texas Sunday, authorities said. More details about Devin Patrick Kelley’s life and death were revealed Monday as investigators continued to look...
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Texas Church Gunman Checked Each Aisle, Shot Babies at Point-Blank Range
The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church went aisle to aisle looking for victims and shot crying babies at point-blank range, a couple who survived the attack said. Meanwhile, investigators continued analyzing the gruesome crime scene Tuesday and tried to gain access to the shooter’s cellphone, a longstanding challenge for the FBI in thousands of previous...
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The Latest: Two Men Who Pursued Texas Church Gunman Attend Shooting Vigil
The Latest on the church shooting in Texas — The two men who pursued the gunman after the Texas church shooting visited a vigil together and prayed with community members mourning the 26 people killed in the attack.
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Trump: Texas Mass Shooting is About Mental Health, Not Guns
Responding to a U.S. mass shooting for the second time in six weeks, President Donald Trump said Monday that it wasn’t “a guns situation” that was behind the slayings of more than two dozen worshipers at a Texas church a day earlier.
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Another Wells Fargo CEO Faces an Angry Congress
A different Wells Fargo chief executive met a similar kind of anger from Congress on Tuesday, with politicians from both major parties saying they feel the bank has done little to change its culture since a scandal over its sales practices. Tim Sloan appeared in front of the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C., about a year since his predecessor...
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After Sales Scandal, Wells Fargo Announces Board Shakeup
Wells Fargo announced a board shakeup Tuesday, including the coming retirement of three directors, in a restructuring effort following the bank’s consumer sales scandal, CNBC reported. Elizabeth “Betsy” Duke will take Stephen Sanger’s position as independent chair effective Jan. 1, 2018, according to the bank’s announcement. Board members Cynthia H. Milligan and Susan G. Swenson will also leave the board...