<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcco.com/consumer/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV</title><link>http://wcco.com/consumer</link><description><![CDATA[Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:50 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[FAA Blames 819 Flight Delays On Equipment Outages]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/faa.flight.delay.2.1325419.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/faa.flight.delay.2.1325419.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights. The agency told employees in a briefing memo Friday that air travelers
experienced a total of 2,21 delays the previous day due to the
equipment outage as well as thunderstorms and other poor weather in the
Northeast.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:21:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderate Dems Swayed Ahead Of Health Bill Vote]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/health.care.vote.2.1325557.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/health.care.vote.2.1325557.html</link><description><![CDATA[With the first critical vote for the Senate health care bill slated for
Saturday night, both advocates and opponents of Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid's bill are putting pressure on the few key Democratic
senators who may or may not hold up the measure.&nbsp; A handful of conservative Democrats have expressed reservations about
supporting the bill, for various reasons, and two have not yet
disclosed whether they will vote in favor of moving the debate forward
on Saturday: Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.).<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:04:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minn. Bank To Absorb Assets Of Failed Fla. Bank]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/commerce.bank.central.2.1325344.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/commerce.bank.central.2.1325344.html</link><description><![CDATA[Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:14:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonprofit Against Violent Video Games To Close]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/national.institute.media.2.1325498.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/national.institute.media.2.1325498.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Minneapolis nonprofit group best known as a video game watchdog is closing its doors at the end of the year due to a lack of funding. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:11:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Minute: Watching Out For Phishing Scams]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/phishing.scams.spyware.2.1325202.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/phishing.scams.spyware.2.1325202.html</link><description><![CDATA[Phishing scams -- spelled with a P-H instead of an F but sounding just like "fishing" -- can get you into some hot water. It starts when you get an honest looking e-mail that tries to trick you into revealing your usernames, passwords and credit card details. According to CNET.com, more than 55,000 phishing attacks were launched in the first half of 2009. In this week's CNET Tech Minute, CNET.com's Brian Cooley tells us how to avoid getting hooked.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:16:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bacteria Prompts Vicks Nasal Spray Recall]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/vicks.sinex.nasal.2.1324617.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/vicks.sinex.nasal.2.1324617.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Procter &amp; Gamble Co. has recalled some 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex
nasal spray after the company found bacteria in samples during routine
testing.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:21:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tire Prices On The Rise After Tariff On China]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/tires.china.prices.2.1323469.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/tires.china.prices.2.1323469.html</link><description><![CDATA[The days of cheap tire prices may be gone for good. Tire prices are on the rise, in large part due to an effort by President Obama to save American jobs, CBS station KCNC-TV reports.<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:02:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feds Charge Dozens In Deaf Phone Scam]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/deaf.phone.scam.2.1323293.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/deaf.phone.scam.2.1323293.html</link><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf. Authorities say a number of companies schemed to create phony calls to a video service that allows the deaf to converse over phone lines to hearing people.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:04:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iowa Researchers Ask: Are Caged Chickens Crazy?]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/caged.chickens.crazy.2.1322123.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/caged.chickens.crazy.2.1322123.html</link><description><![CDATA[Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:31:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minn. Charitable Gambling Convention Starts Thurs.]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/consumer/charitable.gambling.convention.2.1321885.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/consumer/charitable.gambling.convention.2.1321885.html</link><description><![CDATA[Minnesota's charitable gambling industry is meeting in St. Cloud to share ideas and set legislative priorities. Allied Charities of Minnesota sponsors the Lawful Gambling Convention and Expo.
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