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An Orange County employee of mortgage giant Fannie Mae has pleaded not guilty to charges that he demanded kickbacks to provide listings of repossessed homes to a real estate broker.

Year 8 at Ramsey College have started a gardening club at their school to promote healthy eating at their school and in their community.

We tend to fall into a pizza rut, returning to the same saucy pepperoni palaces whenever the urge for a hot slice -- or exhaustion at the prospect of cooking dinner -- strikes.

A North Carolina environmental group is offering a $1,500 reward to find the thief who stole more than 1,000 Venus flytraps from a city garden in Wilmington.

Tim McGraw is pleased to be working again with Operation Homefront and Chase in giving homes to America's veterans.

I lived in a fifth-floor New York City walk-up apartment with no yard when I started getting the itch to put food to flame.

Hayes, 33, was arrested by police and the Serious Fraud Office last December as part of an inquiry stretching from the U.S. to Japan.

U.S. builders stepped up home construction in May and applied for permits to build single-family homes at the fastest pace in five years.

It's not your everyday real estate deal. A team of young entrepreneurs persuaded about 50 deep-pocketed investors to help them purchase a mountain.

On Monday, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson , who was put in the slammer one week ago to do a 30-day stint for butt-slapping his attorney, was released from prison.

As the housing market improves, a growing number of homeowners might become sellers in short order.

No, not the dinner salad you see on some menus; the salad made up of lettuce, a wedge or two of tomato and maybe some carrot threads.

PEOPLE have been urged to plant bee-friendly plants and trees after a report revealed the number of the insects in the north had dropped alarmingly.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take another dispute involving race, deciding whether people must prove they were victims of intentional housing discrimination to win lawsuits under federal law.

Builders are eyeing the next wave of potential home buyers - the so-called millennials - but whether this rising generation will embrace big mortgage debt remains an open question.

That's the question - and the fear - Chairman Ben Bernanke will face this week when he takes questions after a Federal Reserve policy meeting.

Temperatures are rising, and while that may force those of us faint-of-heart indoors for the dog days of summer, it's a tomato's dream come true.

House sellers' average asking prices have broken through the quarter of a million pounds milestone for the first time amid signs of a "widespread" upturn in the housing market.

There's nothing like a bit of sunshine to get plants putting on a growth spurt and spending time doing some gardening is a great way to get some exercise, reduce stress, boost your vitamin D levels and put heart health on the menu thanks to the harvest ahead.

The walled and gated estate includes a 1928 Spanish-style house with a porte-cochere, a swimming pool surrounded by a wide wooden deck and a tennis court on the acre of landscaped grounds.