Beazer Homes USA News

Hundreds of Charlotte-area homeowners will receive payments as part of a $50 million settlement announced Wednesday by federal prosecutors.

Mary Newsom, associate editor of the Charlotte Observer, has been writing about growth, development, urban design and urban life since 1995.

In 2005, Frantz Stanfield was eager to move his family into a northwest Charlotte neighborhood that seemed far removed from the sounds of police sirens and heavy traffic.

A federal bill of information and a deferred prosecution agreement relating to Beazer Homes USA, Inc.

The Department of Justice, under pressure to mete out blame for the credit crisis, has wrapped up a deferred prosecution agreement with Beazer Homes USA .

Beazer Homes USA, Inc. entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina.

The Federal Trade Commission announced a major crackdown on scammers trying to take advantage of people worried about the economy by promising jobs that don't exist, get-rich-quick schemes, debt-reduction scams and other phony services.

Federal investigators filed mortgage and accounting fraud charges Wednesday against Beazer Homes USA, but the homebuilder will escape prosecution because it agreed to pay victims $50 million and accepted responsibility.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are Acuity Brands Inc., Illumina Inc., and Beazer Homes USA Inc.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today sued Michael T. Rand, the former chief accounting officer of Atlanta-based Beazer Homes USA Inc., for conducting a multi-year fraudulent earnings management scheme and misleading outside auditors and internal accountants in order to conceal his wrongdoing.

Atlanta-based TechBridge, a nonprofit dedicated to helping other nonprofits use technology to increase capacity to serve our community, is pleased to announce that Cindy Tierney, SVP and CIO, Beazer Homes USA, Inc., has been named as Vice Chair of the TechBridge Board of Directors.

In late February 2009, I wrote an article in which I picked 5 stocks to watch for the short term: Beazer Homes USA , Russ Berrie & Co.

After processing the latest plans to save our financial system, I'm tempted to buy a bank stock.

The chart below shows the new privately-owned housing starts from January 1959 to May 2009.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc., up $1.43 at $30.27 The pharmaceutical company bought fast-growing generic drug maker Arrow Group, which it said would boost yearly sales to $3 billion.

Shares of Beazer Homes USA Inc. were down 10% in early trading Wednesday after Standard & Poor's downgraded the home builder's credit rating.

Residential construction activity rose significantly in May as housing starts overall jumped 17.2% from April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 532,000, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday morning.

Surprise Councilman John Williams and a few volunteers knocked on the doors of more than 200 homes in a Sierra Montana neighborhood Saturday asking property owners to sign a petition that would keep streetlights from being turned off next month.

Beazer Homes has promoted J. Ray Phillips to vice president of operations in Florida.

Fri, Jun 12, 2009 See the Smart Living magazine cover Beazer Homes USA Inc. appears to have modified a marketing campaign after being hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit by competitor Pardee Homes.