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UK homeowners repaid a record amount of mortgage debt in the first quarter of the year, in the latest sign that the credit crunch is forcing Britons off a decade-long spending splurge.

The new member of the interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee said in a Treasury Select Committee hearing on his appointment that the market may have reached the bottom.

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

Rates for 30-year home loans inched downward this week, but still remain above record lows posted during the spring, Freddie Mac said Thursday.

The White House says its high-profile garden on the South Lawn has tested positive for lead although it is not at dangerous levels.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne is facing a sleaze probe over his second home expenses after a Commons watchdog accepted a complaint from a senior Labour activist.

Authorities have found another major marijuana growing operation in a remote area of Alameda County.

A letter Wednesday to the Housing and Urban Development Department asks the agency to rescind rules regarding real estate appraisals claiming they lead to the use of under-qualified appraisers.

Apartment prices in the typically resilient Manhattan market plunged in the second quarter by the largest annual amount in decades, data released Thursday showed.

Federal prosecutors in North Carolina filed criminal fraud conspiracy charges against Beazer Homes USA on Wednesday, but they agreed to dismiss the case if the company complies with an agreement accepting responsibility for certain wrongdoing and pays millions to victims.

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Applications for mortgages and refinancings fell in the week ending June 26, compared to the previous week, according to data released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Bank interest rates have been attracting criticism from politicians. Government MPs blocked a parliamentary inquiry into the interest rates banks are charging, the Labour Party said today.

Some of the significant cases the Supreme Court decided in its 2008-09 term: REVERSE DISCRIMINATION The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race.

Tesco may launch a bid for Northern Rock as the Government attempts to sell off the nationalised lender before the General Election, according to reports.

Vibe, the popular hip-hop and urban culture magazine founded by legendary producer Quincy Jones, is shutting down.

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram today unveiled three separate mortgage fraud indictments, including a $1.15 million conspiracy to steal identities for fraudulent loans and credit cards.

Singer Charlotte Church's former boyfriend Kyle Johnson has been arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs.

Authorities say a Jensen Beach man has been charged with domestic battery after he drenched his wife with a garden hose and elbowed her for smoking in the house.

House prices rose for the third time in four months during June as the market was boosted by a shortage of properties being put up for sale, figures showed today.