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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

Regional Headlines

• Kansas bankers say national trends aren't reflected locally

  54 min ago | via Kansas.com 

  Kansas banks are in better shape than the handful of national banks and mortgage companies that for weeks have been making headlines.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS, Kansas

• How they voted: Kansas roll call on housing bill

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  How the Kansas delegation voted in the 272-152 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from ...

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

• AP Top Kansas News at 3:58 a.m. CDT Tuesday, ...

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Hays Daily News 

  A year after a refinery oil spill into floodwaters blanketed a third of this southeast Kansas town, little remains in the area that was damaged.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Coffeyville, KS, Kansas, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Pat Roberts, Todd Tiahrt, US House of Representatives

• Obama Veep Search Turns To Dodd

  Thursday Jul 10 | via CBS 5 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 3 comments

  Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Kansas Government, Kansas

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Kansas Storm Victims

  Thursday Jul 10 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Stafford, KS, Kansas, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Affordable oasis near the sea

  2 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Turning south onto Highway 1 from Skyline Boulevard, the road climbs to the top of a hill and then - like a rollercoaster after clanking its way slowly to its summit - plunges into Pacifica.

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• U.S. Congress approves wide-ranging housing rescue bill,

  3 min ago | via VietNamNet 

  The U.S. Congress approved on Saturday a wide-ranging housing rescue bill that will offer up to 300 billion U.S. dollars in assistance to troubled mortgage giants and homeowners.

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

• Reverse mortgage leaves borrower stunned and stuck

  3 min ago | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  Realtor Dave Berard, left, explains the terms of a reverse mortgage to William Lancaster in Lancaster's east Las Vegas home on July 17.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Las Vegas, NV, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• Economy Class

  4 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  Forget leading economic indicators, corporate quarterly earnings, record-low home equity, record-high mortgage defaults and all the rest of it.

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• Stuck in the middle: Renters swept up in wave of foreclosures

  4 min ago | via New Haven Register 

  Aurea Ortiz, a renter on Sedgewick Street in Bridgeport, is in danger of being evicted from her home because the building is being foreclosed.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Bridgeport, CT, Bridgeport Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven, CT