Toys and children's necklaces made in Chinawere recalled Wednesday, including five more items from the popularThomas &Friends Wooden Railway product line, because they containdangerous levels of lead.

  

  We asked AOL users to rat out their frugal friends and family members and they did! Check out our latest installment of "The Cheapest Person I Know"and get a chuckle from these extremely extreme savings tactics.

  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Reversing course, Verizon Wireless onThursday said it will allow an abortion rights group to use itsmobile network for a sign-up text messaging program.

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of investors that had planned to buystudent lender Sallie Mae for $25 billion now wants out of thedeal, saying the current economic environment and legislation beingsigned by President Bush on Thursday make the terms no longeracceptable.

  TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says: "If the Bear Stearns chatter is true -- that Warren Buffett, among others, could buy a stake in the broker -- we could quickly blow through Dow 14,000."

  If your vision of domestic bliss is a single-family house with four bedrooms, 2½ baths, 2,200 square feet of space and a two-car garage, you'll pay $2.1 million more to buy the house in Beverly Hills than in Killeen, Texas.

  SEATTLE (AP) - Video game enthusiasts in the United Statesplunked down about $170 million on copies of ``Halo 3''in the 24hours after the Xbox 360 game went on sale, Microsoft Corp. saidWednesday.

  (Sept. 26) - Bear Stearns, its shares and reputation beaten down after the collapse of two hedge funds, is in serious talks with several individual investors, including Warren E. Buffett, to sell 20 percent of the firm, people briefed on the discussions said today.