Ross Toro

Valentines' Day is a multi-billion-dollar business for American florists and restauranteurs.

If you can't outrun them, avoid being a victim of disasters by being prepared and heeding warnings.

Chips, wings, cookies, pretzels, popcorn... Americans will spend more than one billion dollars on snacks just for the Super Bowl.

Relative costs of caring for a pet, from Golden Retrievers to goldfish.

A new Pew Research Center study delves into how Mormons see the world and how Americans see Mormons.

Food consumption has been on the rise in recent decades, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

"Binge" is defined as five or more alcoholic drinks for males (four or more for females) consumed in a short period of time.

Australia tops a new survey that ranks countries according to how strongly they secure their nuclear materials from terrorists and other threats.

A study of the rate of eye-blinking among the candidates reveals a surprising conclusion about Rick Santorum.

High school athletes aspiring to become professionals may be in for a disappointment. Fewer than one percent of student athletes make the draft.

The total number of background checks for guns have doubled since 2000.

Did you vow to enjoy life and quit drinking in the new year? Many people are right there with you.

The cost of the bubbly is expected to rise next year, so raise your glass while you may.

In today's GoFigure we look at a Pew poll of Americans' attitudes towards Christmas.

Retailers anxiously await the final results from this holiday shopping season.

GoFigure today looks at challenges faced by military men and women returning home.

In 2008 more than a half-million people were reportedly injured in crashes that involved some type of driver distraction.

Christmas decorating drives an annual surge in sales of live and artificial trees.

A CDC study reveals that deaths due to overdose of opioid pain relievers (powerful opium-derived analgesics such as Oxycontin and Percocet) are now killing more people than heroin and cocaine.

GoFigure looks at the results of a Gallup poll of caregivers who also have a full- or part-time job.

Corporations make 5 percent of donations, compared with the 73 percent made by individuals.

NASA's Kepler space telescope is helping astronomers find planets all over our region of the Milky Way galaxy.

GoFigure looks at a College Board report showing that both public and private institutions are affected.

A study looks at whether American parents feel that they pressure their kids enough to succeed in school.

The obesity rate is triple what it was only a generation ago.