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Continuing a multi-year trend, consumers are facing higher beef prices in 2014. Still, beef is expected to remain "king of the protein" among shoppers.WOB

A new survey reveals that one of every six workers in our country can't stand their job.

"Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson will return to work on A&E's reality show despite his comments about gay immorality, the channel said Friday, reversing its decision to suspend him after facing a backlash and threatened boycott.

Despite a string of summertime flops, Hollywood is expected to have a banner year at the domestic box office, coming in just shy of $11 billion, the largest annual take ever. But because of higher ticket prices, actual attendance at North American theaters remained flat after a decade of decline.

Police in Connecticut released thousands of pages of documents Friday from the investigation into last year's school massacre in Newtown, which could shed additional light on the world of the 20-year-old gunman.

Target said Friday that debit-card PINs were among the financial information stolen from millions of customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month.

Electricians working atop a New York City skyscraper on Friday installed the last of the 2,688 crystal triangles that give the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball its shimmer, including a panel dreamt up by a 12-year-old former cancer patient.

After Aaron Collins died suddenly, his family began carrying out his final wishes. In his will, Collins made a simple, yet outlandish request: Go out for dinner, and leave a generous tip -- we're talking $500 for pizza.

Stocks are higher in quiet trading on Wall Street as traders return from the Christmas holiday.

Ready to ring in the new year, Americans look ahead with optimism, according to a new AP-Times Square New Year's Eve poll. Their ratings of the year gone by? Less than glowing.