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3 hrs ago | ContactMusic.com

Toni Braxton - Braxton and Husband Split?

Caption: Toni Braxton attends the Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation Breakthrough Ball, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, USA .... BRAXTON AND HUSBAND SPLIT? Soul singer TONI BRAXTON has reportedly split from her husband KERI LEWIS after eight years of marriage.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Toni Braxton, R-N-B, Mortgage

7 hrs ago | The Plain Dealer

You've seen the TV ads. So what is Ally Bank?

Its TV and print ads poke fun at the bait-and-switch tactics of other banks. Its interest rates on CDs have been the most generous in the industry.

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Related Topix: Mortgage

11 hrs ago | Newsday.com

Venezuelans struggling with water shortages

Every two weeks, Naisi Obando and her children join the crowd at the water truck when it rumbles up a dusty road into their shantytown.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, World News, Venezuela, Home Gardening, Hugo Chavez

Fri Nov 06, 2009

CBS News

Analysis: 10 Percent Jobless Is Obama's New World

For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, George Bush, Mortgage, Opinion

KTNV-TV Las Vegas

Fugitive held in Oakland nightclub slaying

Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a fugitive in a 2004 nightclub slaying in Oakland, Calif.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Oakland Metro, Oakland, CA, Home Remodeling

East Valley Tribune

Lower energy costs with high style

When decorating our homes, we tend to consider things like beauty and comfort, the durability of pieces we might buy or the image they project.

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Related Topix: Arts, Interior Design, Home Decorating

Clover Herald

Ahead of the Bell: Consumer Credit

Consumers likely reduced their borrowing for an eighth straight month in September, as layoffs continue and credit remains tight.

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Related Topix: Mortgage

KXLY-TV Spokane

Banks Borrow More From Emergency Fed Program

Banks borrowed slightly more from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week, while reducing their use of other credit programs designed to ease the financial crisis.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance

Thu Nov 05, 2009

FindLaw

BoE adds 25 billion pounds in monetary expansion

The Bank of England says it will pour another 25 billion pounds into the economy and keep its main interest rate at 0.5 percent for the eighth consecutive month.

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Related Topix: Mortgage

New York City's Hometown Newspaper - ...

Time to buy? Mortgage rates drop below 5%

A half-renovated Victorian era home is offered for sale in the Angelino Heights neighborhood.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Walpole, MA

KCTV Kansas City

House Votes To Expand Homebuyer Tax Credit

Buying a home is about to get cheaper for a whole new crop of homebuyers -- $6,500 cheaper.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home Buying, Barack Obama, US Senate, Republican, Johnny Isakson, Democrat, Max Baucus

WHAS-TV Louisville

Dog hailed as hero for alerting family to fire

An eastern Indiana woman says her family's dog deserves a special treat after his barking saved her family from an early morning house fire.

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Related Topix: Home Listing

The Sun Online

Shamed MPs in pay rise demand

BRAZEN MPs started lobbying for huge pay rises yesterday - just hours after a watchdog unveiled plans to clean up their expenses.

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Related Topix: Mortgage

Austin American-Statesman

Fed again pledges to hold rates at record lows

Federal Reserve policymakers on Wednesday left a key interest rate near zero on Wednesday, specifying for the first time that the rate will be kept at that level as long as unemployment remains high and inflation is stable.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Star-telegram.com

GMAC Financial Services 3Q loss narrows

By DAN STRUMPF GMAC Financial Services, the main lender for General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC, said Wednesday its loss narrowed to $767 million in the third quarter, as its auto lending unit made money while its home mortgage unit reported another loss.The company's earnings report comes a week after the Treasury Department said it was in ...

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News, US Treasury

Cleveland.com

Federal Reserve again pledges to hold rates at record-lows

Updated at 3:26 p.m. WASHINGTON -- With the recession apparently over, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday held a key interest rate at a record low and again pledged to keep it there for an "extended period" to foster the fragile economic recovery.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Thepress.co.uk

Northern Rock says it expects a 'significant improvement' despite losses in mortgage arrears

Nationalised Northern Rock has said that it expected a "significant improvement" in second-half trading as growth in mortgage arrears slowed.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, 9

MyFox St. Louis

After scandal over outrageous claims, British lawmakers face tighter new expense regime

British lawmakers will be banned from using taxpayers' money to make mortgage payments on second homes or hiring family members as staff under new rules published Wednesday in the wake of a scandal over legislators' allowances.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Conservatives (UK), Labour Party (UK)

WJXT

Feds: More Than 100 Arrested For Mortgage Fraud

A federal prosecutor says a crackdown on organized mortgage fraud this year has yielded 105 arrests from Jacksonville to Fort Myers.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Jacksonville Metro

Tue Nov 03, 2009

People's Daily Online

Whitney Houston's property loss

Whitney Houston is selling her old marital home. The 'I Will Always Love You' singer is selling the luxury five-bedroom property - where she wed Bobby Brown in 1992 - in New Jersey for just $2.5 million, less than half its estimated worth of $5.6 million.

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Related Topix: Whitney Houston, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Home Listing, Bobby Brown, R-N-B

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