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Previously-occupied home sales drop
Foreclosures continued to force prices down, representing a third of all sales last month. And more are expected in the months ahead. Mortgage insurer Freddie Mac said fixed mortgage rates fell for the fifth straight week this week and hit their lowest
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:07A
Consumer activists push for rental car recall law
But there is no law that requires rental agencies to pull recalled cars off the road. A recent New York Times article described how major companies told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that in some cases, they rent recalled vehicles
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:07A
Court filings advance claim Iran aided 9/11 hijackers | Philadelphia Inquirer
The lawsuit was filed in 2002 in federal District Court in Manhattan. Among the plaintiffs are Ellen Saracini of Bucks County, wife of Victor Saracini, captain of United Flight 175, the second aircraft to hit the World Trade Center, and Fiona Havlish,
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:07A
Stephen Fry defends classical music in debate
The verdict: classical music reigned victorious, 365 audience votes to 57. The singlet-clad, baseball-capped Kissy Sell Out riled against the artform's elitism and argued that there is no room for the static ritual of the classical concert hall in
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:07A
Judge: Rowan must pay $1.6 million more for Camden building it acquired in '09
argued Timothy P. Duggan, chair of Stark & Stark's Bankruptcy & Creditor's Rights Group. Rowan's lower appraised value was based on the claim that more than 30 percent of the building was not able to be rented, Duggan said. Under New Jersey law,
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:06A
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's demagoguery on immigration historic
The vast majority of the American public is not racist or "playing politics" in worrying about out-of-control illegal immigration. The enforcement of existing federal immigration law has become a joke. Drug violence in Mexico is destabilizing an entire
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:06A
Federal prosecutors say they will retry Daniel Castro on extortion charges
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they would seek to retry Castro on the charges on which jurors could not reach a verdict, including allegations that he plotted to hire strong-arm enforcers to collect a $90000 debt he was owed by a former
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:06A
Chandler Mill Bridge closing reignites controversy | Philadelphia Inquirer
County and state officials want to replace the current one-lane, 101-year-old Chandler Mill Bridge, which was closed for structural deficiencies, with a modern two-lane bridge that could handle more traffic and would, they argue, be safer.
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:06A
SOCIETY IN BRIEF 20/5
More than 40000 rural workers now have jobs, who account for 4 per cent of the municipal population. Meanwhile, the number of qualified workers in Ha Noi's suburban districts has increased by 20 per cent. Prosperity has also increased in urban areas.
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:06A
Judges to publish verdict on super-injunctions
A major review led by judges and libel lawyers into the use of injunctions to gag the media is set to be published amid fears the legal tool is damaging freedom of speech in the UK. There are growing concerns over celebrities' increasing use of
Updated: 05/20/2011 03:04A
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