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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Public safety employees get help with homeownership

  Mar 21, 2008 | via Columbus Ledger-Enquirer 

  NeighborWorks, CB&T create incentive plan BY HARRY FRANKLIN - hfranklin@ledger-enquirer.com -- A new program targeting Columbus public safety employees could enable many of the 1,400 workers to become ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Columbus, GA, Muscogee County, GA

• Columbus landmark comes down

  Jan 3, 2008 | via Columbus Telegram 

  A long familiar landmark along U.S. Highway 30 will soon be only a memory for Columbus area residents.

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  Related Topix: Willow-Island, NE, Lincoln, NE, Home Listing, Home, Columbus, NE

• USDA has low-interest home repair loans available

  Dec 17, 2007 | via Grand Island Independent 

  KEARNEY The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development has low-interest loans available to very low income rural homeowners.

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Kearney, NE, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Recent Nebraska newspaper editorials

  Thursday | via Beatrice Daily Sun 

  Excerpts from recent Nebraska daily newspaper editorials on topics of statewide interest.

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  Related Topix: Grand Island, NE, Creighton University, Home, Mortgage, Nebraska Government, Nebraska

• Biz briefs: SeaSucker.com leases port space

  Friday Jul 18 | via HeraldTribune.com 

  Published: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 3:53 a.m. MANATEE COUNTY SeaSucker.com has leased 11,000 square feet of office/warehouse space at the Port Manatee Commerce ...

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  Related Topix: Nebraska Government, Nebraska, Restaurant Management, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Body found in Beaver Creek is missing Neb. woman

  Saturday Jul 12 | via KRDO 

  The Eagle County coroner says the body found in Beaver Creek is that of a missing Nebraska woman.

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  Related Topix: Nebraska Government, Nebraska, Real Estate

• Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System Expands to 14 States

  Jun 23, 2008 | via Mortgage News Daily 

  The Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators announce that six more states -- Connecticut, Louisiana.

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  Related Topix: Nebraska, Home, Mortgage

• Search continues along Beaver Creek for Nebraska woman's body

  Jun 22, 2008 | via The Daily Sentinel 

  A Nebraska woman who fell into a creek in Eagle County was presumed drowned Sunday, authorities said.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Nebraska

National Headlines

• Housing rescue passes

  6 min ago | via Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville, Virginia 

  The candidates for the 5th District House seat in the November election differ on the merits of the housing legislation passed by Congress last week.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Banks rally as CEOs hold off on shares

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  With many banks still reporting massive writedowns and even quarterly losses from bad mortgage investments, it certainly seems like an odd time for financial stocks to rally.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wachovia Corporation, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services

• Mortgage firm rescue bill awaits Bush's OK

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners Saturday as part of an election-year housing plan that also aims to calm jittery financial markets and bolster the sagging economy.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Financing completed for Pa. shopping center

  3 hrs ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has completed a $54 million financing of Paxton Towne Centre in Harrisburg, Pa.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, Harrisburg, PA, Home, Mortgage

• Local communities sit half-built, fully troubled

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Michael and Judith Van Dress have a lot of privacy and not a lot of competition when they use the brand-new fitness center at their condominium in Concordia.

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  Related Topix: Cape Coral, FL, Housing, Lee County, FL, Naples Metro