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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Realty Trac 

  The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Sex-abuse plea made in Delaware

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Daily Star 

  DELHI _ A Stamford businessman pleaded guilty to a reduced count of attempted first-degree sexual abuse in Delaware County Court on Monday just before jury selection began for his trial.

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  Related Topix: Delhi, NY, Delaware State University, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Otsego County, NY, Becker College, The College of Wooster

• Winter Carnival & Related Events

  Mar 13, 2008 | via CoopersTown Crier 

  Hartwick resident Will Nicholson purchases a copy of Cooperstown native Lauren Groff's first novel, "The Monsters on Templeton," signed at Augur's Book Store Saturday evening.

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  Related Topix: Hartwick, NY, Cooperstown, NY, Real Estate

• Sympathy for money borrowers unnecessary

  Mar 3, 2008 | via Daily Star 

  The sky is falling! The sky is falling! What to do, what to do? So goes the mantra of the Bush administration, all the presidential candidates and both houses of Congress, especially those individuals running ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

Regional Headlines

• Fitch Rates $100MM San Diego County (CA) Ser 2008B 'AA/F1+'

  10 hrs ago | via PR-inside.com 

  The long-term 'AA' rating reflects the county's very low debt burden, sound financial operations, and very strong and effective financial and debt policies, as well as concern over the economic and financial ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Financial Markets, New York

• NYC jury convicts former Haitian paramilitary leader in scheme to cheat mortgage lenders

  12 hrs ago | via Newsday.com 

  A Brooklyn jury found Emmanuel "Toto" Constant guilty on Friday of fraud and grand larceny.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, New York

• Irwin shares soar after loan sale

  16 hrs ago | via IBJ.COM 

  Columbus-based Irwin Financial Corp. shares rose 25 percent this morning, in the first trading session since the company announced late yesterday that it was scaling back its exposure to the battered mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: New York, Irwin Financial, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• N.Y. jury convicts ex-Haitian strongman of fraud

  16 hrs ago | via Buffalo News 

  A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, New York

• National City posts $1.76 billion loss for quarter

  Yesterday | via Lansing State Journal 

  NEW YORK - Regional bank National City Corp. on Thursday reported a $1.76 billion loss for the second quarter, as mortgage loans soured and it took a big charge related to previous acquisitions.

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  Related Topix: New York, Home, Mortgage, National City Corporation, Banking, Financial Services

National Headlines

• Week ends with some upbeat economic news

  11 min ago | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune 

  After weeks of one negative report after another, the economy finally got some news Friday that wasn't half bad.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures

• Many brokers risk loss of license

  11 min ago | via Indianapolis Star 

  Indiana's secretary of state warned mortgage brokers earlier this month that they would lose their licenses if they didn't pass a state- required test by Aug.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• FOCUS: Bank-run scenes create concerns

  12 min ago | via IBJ.COM 

  It was a scary scene, reminiscent of the Great Depression: Customers lined up outside California's IndyMac Bank branches to withdraw deposits after a bank run led to the bank's failure.

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  Related Topix: Evansville, IN, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Foreclosures Surge in Chicago

  13 min ago | via Chicago Sun-Times 

  Chicago ranks No. 35 on the list of the top 100 metropolitan areas with households facing or in foreclosure, as homeowners cope with a perfect storm of a weak housing market, declining home values, a rough ...

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  Related Topix: Chicago Metro, Foreclosures

• Bailout measure rewards failure

  13 min ago | via The Waterbury Connecticut Republican 

  The Federal Reserve is the latest agency to inject itself into the subprime-mortgage-industry meltdown with back-to-the-future rules intended to protect home buyers from "shady lending practices." They include ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Opinion