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The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in.

Home Style: Urns earn praise during the holidays Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 14:17 If you want a versatile tool that will help you create sensational holiday displays both inside and out, look no further than the humble garden urn.

Firing up another in a chain of Marlboros, Deborah nervously awaits a small army massing at her rural, wood-framed bungalow.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Housing Monday 30th November 2009 - 8:46am Rise in house prices 'set to ease' House prices rose for the fourth month in a row during November but there are signs the pace of the recovery may begin to ease in the months ahead, research showed today.

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A police chief says one person has been found dead in a house that caught fire in Murphy.

Investigators in Florida alerted Michigan authorities to be on the lookout Saturday for a man accused of shooting four relatives to death after a Thanksgiving dinner in South Florida.

The holidays are about enjoying time with family and loved ones. But there's so much to do and spend.

Kenny and Barbara Clopper can only imagine what life was like along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the 1800s.

Family members say an assistant federal public defender found slain in her Oregon home didn't express fear about retribution from her clients.

As White House officials fended off new questions about how a fame-seeking couple finessed their way into the president's glittering state dinner last week, the aspiring reality-TV stars themselves began trying to sell their story for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A former home of Arizona Sen. John McCain is scheduled to go up for auction next week.

A vacant home for sale in the 7900 block of South Toledo caught fire overnight Saturday in Tulsa.

One person was treated for possible smoke inhalation at a local hospital after a Thanksgiving Day house fire in McCook that has investigators blaming a turkey fryer.

Black walls aren't just for Goth kids and heavy metal fans anymore. They're popping up in upscale shelter magazines, hipster design blogs and just about everywhere in between.

An autopsy has found that an assistant federal public defender found dead in her home was strangled.Nancy Bergeson was found Tuesday afternoon lying face down in the dining room of her southwest Portland home.

Smoke and fire damage to the second floor rear of a Broadview home could be seen from the street, the result of an early morning fire on Black Friday.

The Secret Service is investigating how a couple aspiring to be reality-show celebrities managed to appear at President Obama's first state dinner without being on the guest list, provoking questions about security at the White House.

Three women and a child in bed were shot to death during a family Thanksgiving gathering in South Florida and a male relative was being sought early Friday.

From colorful glass pieces giving off sparkle to lamps and mirrors that play with the light, adding glamour to a room is easy - and something people are seeking, says interior designer Jan Showers.

Katharine Love's 99-year-old house in Johannesburg contains thousands upon thousands of antiques and bric-a-brac. Photograph: Tim Hill /Alamy I have fond memories of visiting Sir Paul McCartney's old house in Liverpool.

A village near Trowbridge has been celebrating the reopening of its only pub after it was closed for more than 18 months.

Caption: Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry 6th annual Keep a Child Alive New York City, USA .... HALLE BERRY is doubling up in the property market, selling off the Hollywood hideaway she bought in 2001 for more than twice what she paid for it.

Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger's luxury estate in Connecticut has sold for $20 million, about $8 million below its original asking price.

There were scenes of joy in Molweni area outside Hillcrest on Thursday when the government handed over a house to the family of Sikhumbuzo Mhlongo, who committed suicide after being refused an identity document.

Holy Land USA, a Bedford County tourist attraction that told the story of Jesus Christ through its scenery for nearly 40 years, is closed and headed for the auction block.

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park invites everyone to experience "Timeless Christmas at the LBJ Boyhood Home and the Johnson Settlement" on Saturday, November 28.

The first line of "defense" at the 400 Iraqi police checkpoints in Baghdad are small wands with antennas that supposedly detect explosives, but which U.S. officials say are about as useful as Ouija boards.

Share + Nov 25, 2009 3:15 pm US/Central NEW YORK 1 of 1 Holiday shoppers race around for sale items after braving the cold temperatures outside of Target as they start the traditional holiday shopping season Nov.

LONDON .- A major work by French painter Paul Delaroche thought to have been virtually destroyed during a World War Two German air raid on London in 1941 has been unrolled and found to be in good condition.

He just bought Khloe Khardashian a four million dollar house. Although he does get to live there temporarily until she files for divorce in six months.

Sound advice ... more consumers are discovering that it's not just a matter of a big screen.

Investigators doubt there was any crime. Gary Alford, senior investigator at the coroner's office, tells The Courier of Houma that if there's no crime and the rib, arm and leg bones are more than 50 years old, they'll go to the state Division of Archaeology.

HARRY Potter star Daniel Radcliffe got a spell of help from his movie enemy Malfoy in a drugs row.

Three generations of Wyeth artworks will be auctioned next month, including 14 original oil canvases by N.C. Wyeth that were used to lavishly illustrate the classic adventure tale of "Robinson Crusoe." The Dec.

The last time Edwenia Cuspart saw her grandson Jamar Pinkney Sr., he had a spaced-out look on his face "like he was in another world." It was about 3:30 p.m. Monday, as he sat across from her in the dining room of her east-side Detroit home.

Everyone ends up at the Abbey . The bar-restaurant tucked into a section of lower West Hollywood near the border of Beverly Hills on the West Side of Los Angeles, has become a haven for gay boys, the girls who love them, straight-but-not-narrow couples, and the bold-faced set.

Gladys Johnson didn't allow drinking. If a liquor bottle or beer can was found inside a room, the landlady wouldn't issue a warning.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday hosts his first state dinner and -- like the US$1.4-trillion deficit -- the darn thing just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

The former Phoenix home of Sen. John McCain is going on the auction block. Higgenbotham Auctioneers, International, say bidding for the home near Central and Glendale avenues will start at $5.9 million.

Eight months ago when Candy Spelling, widow of legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling, put her 4.7-acre residence in Holmby Hills up for sale, the $150-million listing price raised more than a few eyebrows.

An Augusta County family has been displaced after their home caught fire Saturday evening.

This story originally appeared March 30, 2006. The case is still unsolved. The fatal shooting of a retired couple in their gated golf and country club community remained a mystery Wednesday.

Improperly discarded smoking materials are suspected of causing a fire this morning that damaged a Shoreline home and destroyed a car.

Mike Rann in the office Michelle Chantelois says they used for sex. The married woman who says she had a sexual affair with South Australian Premier Mike Rann says the politician a a used me to stroke his own egoa TMa TM.

The brick mansion where Fairmont lawyer Francis H. Pierpont governed the Restored State of Virginia during the Civil War is for sale.

Police investigate at the scene of a fatal garage fire that killed two in Calgary, Alberta on November 20,2009. Photograph by: Leah Hennel , Calgary Herald CALGARY- The wife of a man who died in a garage fire in northeast Calgary Friday night says she is shattered by the death of her husband, who was a oeeverythinga to her.

This photo offers just a peek of the stunning Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced home that will be sold at auction Dec.

Lydia Trinidad, longtime executive director of the Puerto Rican Association for Human Development in Perth Amboy, has devoted years to helping others.

A fire left a home with heavy damage after neighbors reported hearing an explosion in the garage.

Posted Friday, November 20, 2009 ; 09:11 AM Post Comment Updated Friday, November 20, 2009 ; 12:39 PM Carpenter admits that circumstantial evidence against him doesn't look good.

In 10 years a lot happens --from the Samaritan House opening night Dec. 1, 2000, when no one came, to Friday night when the dining room was packed with people gathered to eat a hot meal and help the organizers celebrate the start of their 10th year feeding the hungry.

Candy Spelling Stands Firm With The Nation's Most Expensive Home Listing [Pic in URL] The widow of TV producer Aaron Spelling can afford to be patient for someone to bite at the $150-million asking price for her 56,500-square-foot Holmby Hills mansion.

Officials say a man arrested for speeding was caught by photo enforcement cameras driving over 100 miles per hour on Valley freeways.

Police say thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions.

It's no fantasy. A Worcester County man is auctioning off a private bayside island in the shadow of the north Ocean City skyline, complete with its own sandy beachfront and hunting lodge.

Twilight fans are eager to catch the premiere of 'New Moon' this week but the most extreme of the bunch may be looking elsewhere.

With one suspect in jail and others suspected of involvement, investigators continue to probe a Friday arson at the home of a Caledonia marshal.

Standing outside the empty home Tuesday afternoon, Frances Greifenberger could see people moving around inside and hear the sound of glass breaking.

LANCASTER -- A woman caught burglarizing a house said she doesn't remember much about the incident.

Working out with Encino's 'Clean Momma' cLEANmomma For more information on Carolyn Barnes and her cLEANmomma fitness program and DVD, go to www.cleanmomma.com and www.youtube.com/ user/cleanmomma. The training DVD, which comes with a fitness guide, is priced at $14.95. RD WORKOUTS Detergent Bottle Curls Recycle those detergent bottles by cleaning ...

The numbers are downright staggering. According to Zillow.com, 73-percent of homes in the South - the area to which researchers assigned Texas in the study - have lost value - but just 45-percent of homeowners realize it.

This Vancouver estate is home to heartthrob vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight: New Moon , opening in movie theaters on Nov.

Dearborn -- There's a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made.

Anton McNulty A CLARE Island man who died in an Achill nursing home a few hours after an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug also had pneumonia which was the primary cause of his death.

A bill introduced to Ohio legislators Tuesday makes schools the new battlefield in the war on childhood obesity.

A 38-year-old San Jose resident accused of raping a woman in her Mountain View home in 2007 has pleaded no contest and was sentenced last week to 25 years to life in prison, Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Amy Cornell said.

A man suspected of breaking into a house that was for sale, showering there, doing laundry and putting his food in the refrigerator before the homeowner came home is being held on $50,000 bond.

They think that if we change our way of life, the terrorists will have won. In principle, I agree.

Its protracted presidential election has finally been decided, but Afghanistan is on hold.

United Hospice of Rockland may be at the end of its five-year quest to build a hospice home where terminally ill patients can be cared for in their last days.

BURNLEY MP Kitty Ussher has spoken of her sadness after she has placed her Rosehill home up for sale.

An Island woman's habit of staying up late may have allowed her family and numerous pets to flee a fire early Saturday morning unharmed.

A homeowner knew something was amiss when he came home, opened his garage door and found a white Lexus that wasn't his parked in the garage.

When President Barack Obama met with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu over coffee and sweets in his private presidential dining room off the Oval Office last week, a solemn Civil War-era painting featuring Abraham Lincoln deliberating with his generals hung above their evening tete-a-tete, as seen in an official photograph of the meeting the White House ...

Share + Nov 16, 2009 7:29 pm US/Pacific A Colorado resident came home to find an intruder had made himself at home in his house, CBS station KCNC-TV reported.

Fifteen months ago, Paul Ray and Donna Heinrich had a view of the water from the porch of their house in Gilchrist.

NORTH PORT - $26,000 for a home. While most would call it an incredible steal, others wouldn't take it if it was given to them.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities and also in Housing Monday 16th November 2009 - 2:22pm Suspended sentence for mother who left four young children 'home alone' A mother who abandoned her four young children to go on a 24-hour drink and drug binge was given a suspended jail sentence today.

UK housing market 'hit by seasonal slowdown' Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Housing Monday 16th November 2009 - 8:50am UK housing market 'hit by seasonal slowdown' Property asking prices fell by 1.6% as the housing market suffered its traditional seasonal slowdown, research showed today.

By ALAN PEPPARD / / The Dallas Morning News / apeppard@dallasnews.com apeppard@dallasnews.com If you're craving a Boeing private jet with a master bedroom, shower and dining room, Donald Trump listed his famous 727-100 with "Trump" emblazoned across the top of the fuselage for sale this week.

A southwest Phoenix home was destroyed after flames engulfed the entire structure Sunday.

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William Paul Young walked into an Office Depot in Portland, Ore., four years ago to make some copies of a book he had written.

The death of Alex Adkins' wife left him with the pain of loss. Eight years later, it also left him with the desire to change some of the designs in the house the couple had shared with three boys until she died.

Puppies are cute, but a lot of work, says Plover veterinarian Diane Scott. 'When you adopt a dog, you pretty much know its personality, but you never know when you adopt a puppy what its personality will be like as a dog,' said Scott who is an advocate for dog adoptions.

A South Side woman was charged last night with murder in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a sport-utility vehicle early yesterday.

Take a close, hard look at the new $6,500 federal tax credit for so-called "move up" homebuyers that passed the Senate and House this month.

In the following press release the Santa Clara County District Attorney annouced that at arraignment this week, 42-year old Lawrence Maschino pleaded guilty to charges including writing checks with insufficient funds, using a victim's personal information without authorization, and grand theft of personal property over $400. In addition, Mr.

Cold weather fire safety is very important. Don't let this happen to you. photo courtesy of Avoca Fire Dept As the cold weather starts to make its way through the region, families will have to turn on their furnaces, water heaters, and wood burners to warm up their homes.

A former Colorado home builder agreed Friday to plead guilty in Los Angeles to a federal conspiracy charge in connection with a $16 million fraud scheme involving a Southland banker and real estate agent.

Cars with sightseers drove up and down Oliver Road on Friday, some stopping to take a better look, others snapping photos.

Someone set a vacant house on fire Thursday afternoon in a Sharon neighborhood that's seen a few other arson fires in the past couple years.

U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre ordered Anniston architect Julian Jenkins to repay $300,000.00 to Alabama's two-year college system for helping its former chancellor obstruct justice during a federal grand jury investigation of corruption in the system, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.

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This airy design, Plan E-2611 by the Home Plans LLC, displays fresh style. The facade has intricate brickwork, attractive columns and tall, multipaned windows.

Firefighters on Thursday afternoon battled a house fire in Mayfield Heights. The fire broke out around 3 p.m. at the home on Longwood Avenue.

San Bernardino County narcotics agents have seized 1,300 pounds of marijuana during a raid of an Ontario home used by a Mexican drug cartel.

A body burned beyond recognition was found in a rural home that also completely burned Tuesday on Highway 96.

Police received a call about a home invasion from the woman, who lives on Winkler Street, at 9:50 a.m. She reported that two white males wearing hooded sweatshirt-style jackets forced their way into her home after ringing the front door bell.

By Julianna Cummins It's not often one sees a man in an orange suit. But in Kensington Market, Yehudah Cullman, 38, is just part of the eclectic scenery.

Home buyers in much of the United States paid thousands of dollars below asking prices in September, but had slightly less negotiating power than in August, real estate website Zillow.com said on Wednesday.

The idea behind staging is to make the home look uncluttered and as professionally decorated as possible so it appears fresh and inviting to potential buyers.

Narcotics detectives raid what they call "a typical weed and crack house" By Rick Pfeiffer rick.pfeiffer@niagara-gazette.com Niagara Gazette Falls police narcotics detectives, along with members of the department's Emergency Response Team took a bite out of the city's weed trade with a raid Wednesday night on a Tennessee Avenue home.

While on bail for a charge alleging he burglarized a city home, Storm Addison broke into a New Castle home, stole valuables, fled on a "gas-powered bicycle" and failed to stop for police, according to court records.

RUSSELL BRAND has sparked rumours he is planning to quit his native Britain to move to America with his girlfriend KATY PERRY after putting his London home up for sale.

Indianapolis- Firefighters were kept busy Monday night and into Tuesday morning on the near west side as crews fought four working fires within a five hour span.

A Tuesday night fire destroyed a building that formerly housed Naughtins Marine, Saugatuck Township Fire Chief John Blok said.

A a fairytale castlea , which is believed to be the most expensive dwelling on sale in Lancashire has come on the market for the first time.

Cash-strapped ... Robbie Williams has suffered a 90 per cent drop in earnings over three years.

FULLERTON A fire destroyed a two-story house, injured a firefighter and killed two dogs, a Fullerton fire official said.

The people of this small Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : A U.S. lawmaker wants federal investigators to assess the risk for E. coli contamination in food used for school meal programs.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Housing Tuesday 10th November 2009 - 8:40am UK house prices 'continuing to rise' - RICS House prices continued to rise during October despite an increase in the number of homes being put up for sale, research showed today.

Singer Melanie Brown, also known as Scary Spice from her days with the Spice Girls, and Mel B during her time Las Vegas, has purchased a gated home in the San Fernando Valley area for $3.15 million.

Gulf Coast residents hunkered down at home and in shelters Monday as a rare late-season tropical storm headed their way, bringing with it the potential for high winds, flooding and up to 8 inches of rain in some places.

A Roanoke man has plead guilty on charges of having child pornography, and more charges are pending.

Lois McIvor first went on the Holiday House Tour fundraiser for the Festival of Trees to help find her way around Peterborough.

As a single father of two, Don Guldan knew he had to move his family out of their 40-year-old mobile home, so he turned to Marshfield Area Habitat for Humanity.

Gulf County, Fla: A family's home is completely destroyed after a fire ripped through on Gulf County residence Thursday night.

After notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, the son who many thought would succeed him fled Colombia, assumed a new identity and lived a low-profile life as an architect in Argentina.

YOBS left a teenager lucky to be alive after a firework set off a blaze in his house.

It's been a labor of love over the last decade for Greg and Barbara Robinson, owners of the Astor House Bed & Breakfast Inn in Green Bay, but they have put the business up for sale to pursue another - as yet undetermined - path.

The Solano County Sheriff's Office drug enforcement team arrested a Vallejo woman Thursday on various drug charges.

First-time home buyers have been getting tax credits of up to $8,000 since January as part of the economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year.

A CARE home that is controversially ending its day service could be sold by the charitable trust that owns it.

A NEW children's home has been given the go ahead - despite residents' fears about anti-social behaviour.

Actors Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman were among the 10 registered bidders at Australia's most exclusive auction this week, when Sydney's poshest residence went under the hammer.

SPRING VALLEY - A home on Paikin Drive was heavily damaged Thursday in a fire reported to police shortly before 10 a.m. No one was home at the time, and no one was injured in the blaze.

One of my favorite traditions during the holidays is to learn about other people's holiday traditions.

It's going to be another big boost for the economy. That's what realtors are saying about the extension of the first-time home buyer's tax credit because it's been expanded to also include current homeowners who are buying new homes.

Hide your couches. Rumor has it that Tom Cruise is moving to San Francisco . A home in San Francisco's famed Sea Cliff neighborhood is rumored to have been purchased by the "Mission Impossible" star.

Mary Burgess has seen a lot in one century - including the birth and growth of nearly 340 collective children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and even great-great-great-grandchildren - with more on the way.

The board of directors of the Downtown Dover Partnership agreed Thursday to throw its weight behind an effort by Queen Anne's County, Md., to become the site of a federal diplomatic training facility.

Among the amenities created during the extreme makeover of the Okvath family home in Gilbert.

Set on almost one-quarter of an acre on Smith Cove, a new Mediterranean-style home with a red clay tile roof is swathed in cream-colored stucco with contrasting wooden shutters.

Two Ada County Sheriff's deputies were treated for smoke inhalation after helping to get an elderly woman out of a burning home in southwest Boise Wednesday morning.

Staging a home for sale can set it apart from the competition and make it inviting to the greatest number of buyers.

Updated 7:22 p.m. By Perry Bacon Jr. The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that extends several measures designed to spur the economy and help people who have lost their jobs, including a provision that will extend unemployment benefits for up to 20 weeks in states with high unemployment rates.

An eastern Indiana woman says her family's dog deserves a special treat after his barking saved her family from an early morning house fire.

The Sowell home has come to be known as a house of horrors, but for one Cleveland woman it was for more than 40 years simply her home.

A Huntington man is in jail after police seized 70 HCl generators and other components used in making methamphetamines from he and his wife's property Monday.A On November 2, Huntington County police report they went to Shawn and Michelle Prater's home at 9702 W. 700 North and in plain view found meth making materials.

Deputies confirm Nick Ray, 39, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the garage of his home, after engaging in a standoff with authorities for hours.

Police rescued six dogs and five puppies Tuesday night from a southwest suburban home apparently being used to train pit bulls for fighting.

An early morning blaze destroyed a home at 199 Main St. in Doaktown on Monday. Michele Gilks photo An early morning fire destroyed a home at 199 Main St.

Blinded by death, shrouded in secrecy and driven by recklessness could be used to describe the Mexican drug cartels however, these terms are used to describe our own government agency, ICE.

Whitney Houston is selling her old marital home. The 'I Will Always Love You' singer is selling the luxury five-bedroom property - where she wed Bobby Brown in 1992 - in New Jersey for just $2.5 million, less than half its estimated worth of $5.6 million.

More interested in grandchildren and vacations than grand galas and gatherings, Albemarle County winemaker and philanthropist Patricia Kluge has put on the market for $100 million her 24,000-square-foot Albemarle House estate and 300 acres surrounding it.

DeFuniak Springs, FL A part-time resident of Walton County arrives at his house north of DeFuniak Springs and finds that it had been ransacked, and used as a party site.

Householders and businesses were hoping the worst was over after forecasters said showers will clear in the worst-hit flood areas of the UK.

The average cost of a UK home is now 7.1% or 11,000 higher than when house prices hit their low point in April, according to Halifax Photo: GETTY The average cost of a UK home is now 7.1% or 11,000 higher than when house prices hit their low point in April, according to Halifax.

Whitney Houston's dramatic contemporary estate, where local officials and neighbors mingled with celebrities at the pop star's 1992 wedding reception, has been put up for sale with an asking price of $2.5 million, less than half its assessed value.

When they went looking for models of how to rein in neglectful landlords, Town Manager Chris Clark and Police Chief Dan Charette didn't find much of a trail to follow.

Whitney Houston's New Jersey estate, where she married Bobby Brown in 1992, is for sale.

A clean-up operation is under way after heavy rain and strong winds caused flooding across the UK.

In some areas there is a shortage of desirable, well-priced listings. Sellers who don't need to sell now are waiting for a better market.

A Government minister is aiming to become the first gay MP to get 'married' in the House of Commons, it emerged today.

House prices edged ahead for the third month in a row during October as the market continued to be supported by a shortage of properties for sale.

Two more suspects were arrested Tuesday night on charges of mortgage fraud and grand theft stemming from the numerous grow houses discovered and dismantled in Highlands County in 2007.

A cooking fire damaged the kitchen of a home at 3622 Blake Road Saturday around 1:26 p.m., according to Ashtabula Township Fire Department reports.

For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don't come to work, you don't get paid.

On Saturday, a two-alarm fire tore through several townhomes located on 900 block of Cypress Station in north Harris County.

An Orchard Mesa man was behind bars Saturday on suspicion of firing two guns multiple times inside a home and using a sword to cut up the walls while a woman and three children were present, according to the Mesa County Sheriff's Department.

Actress Meg Ryan, who will star opposite Timothy Hutton in the December comedy "Serious Moonlight," also seems to be getting serious about selling her Bel-Air home.