Personal Finance Daily: You’ll Need 11 Times Your Salary In Retirement

Excitement is growing as the drawing nears for the record-setting Powerball jackpot. Carter Evans reports from California, the latest player to join the multi-state lottery, where residents are buying up 10,000 tickets every minute.

These cars and trucks double as cabs, cargo vans, and everything in between.

Municipal bonds pay tax-free interest -- that's one of those constants on which conservative investors could always count, regardless of how tumultuous the financial markets became. Even the latest fiscal-cliff tax deal left muni bonds and bond mutual funds pretty much alone. If anything, the legislation enhanced their appeal by excluding muni-bond interest from the new Medicare investment surtax that now applies to high-income individuals.

Prices vary between gas bought with credit card and cash, stumping local consumer and a major grocery retailer.