January home prices up 19% for year
The number of home sales declined 2.8 per cent in January compared with the near record level in December, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Wednesday.
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Legislature Readies For Session’s Final Week
The Oregon Legislature is getting ready for the last lap of a February session, with the state Senate working into the weekend to do some housekeeping.
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U.S. jobless, price data fan concerns on economy
The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economy’s recovery.
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Woman finds 32-year-old check for $17,500
LAUDERHILL, Fla. — An 85-year-old South Florida woman who went looking for a photo of her ex-husband says she found a $17,500 insurance claim check from 1978 instead. Barbara Cosgrove found the check, dated Jan. 23, 1978, in an unopened envelope…
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Home health care agency under investigation
HURON COUNTY — Federal agents, the Huron County Sheriff’s Department, police departments throughout the county, and medical insurance auditors, are investigating a Huron County based health care agency.
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Mill Creek man accused of defrauding victims out of $600k
According to prosecutors, Stephen Brombach, who owns Integrity Group Insurance and Financial Services in Marysville, convinced his victims to invest more than $600,000 in a phony “Real Estate Investment Fund (REIT).
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Pandas eye up the competition for the Brit Insurance Design Award
An installation of pandas who turn to follow visitors with a slightly unnerving stare is on a shortlist of contenders for The Brit Insurance Design Awards , which go on display from today.
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Personal Finance Daily: Hold the champagne on housing-market news
When you hear there’s been a drop in the rate of homes entering the foreclosure process — finally! — you start to get a little bit excited about a possible end to the travails of the housing market. Enough crisis already! Let’s celebrate! But wait.
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Simmering for decades, engineer’s grudge explodes
In the California where Joe Stack started out as a fresh-from-college software engineer, fighting the tax man was, quite literally, a religion.
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