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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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

Local Headlines

• Police: Burglary suspect provides map of targets

  Jan 11, 2008 | via Sun-Journal 

  In a script that could have come from a detective novel, police say a Dover-Foxcroft man committed more than 250 burglaries and marked the towns where they were committed with an "X" on a DeLorme map.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Abbot, ME, Brownville Junction, ME, Levant, ME, Carmel, ME

Regional Headlines

• Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Earthlink 

  More Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer Nuisance wildlife specialist Richard Burton, left, holds an 8-foot long non-venomous reticulated python as wildlife rehabilitator Jen Lewis calls a friend ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Maine, Gorham, ME, Offbeat

• Cutting torch caused fire at Maine boatyard

  Monday Jul 14 | via WBZ-AM Allston 

  The Maine fire marshal's office says a blaze that destroyed a well-known boatyard was caused by sparks from a cutting torch.

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  Related Topix: Maine, Natural Disasters, Maine Government, Wildfire, Fire, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 'Your Piece of Maine' winners announced; local receives $5,000

  Thursday Jul 10 | via York Weekly 

  The Maine Association of REALTORS announced the winners of the "Your Piece of Maine" YouTube contest at a Portland Sea Dogs pre-game ceremony on June 28 at Hadlock Field in Portland.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Maine, Maine Government, Kennebunk, ME, Holden, ME

• 3 words to solve the problem Solar Thermal Heating put the black

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Cape Cod Today 

  N/AF Fair [ Forecast ] :: Monday, June 30th, 2008 Alberto's Ristorante Exquisite Northern Italian cuisine served in a casually elegant atmosphere.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Home Listing, Maine, Maine Government

• Sunday Morning Breakfast and a Lunch Buffet at the Maine Dish

  Friday Jun 20 | via Village Soup 

  BELFAST : BELFAST, YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT!!! SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST BUFFET!! OVER 20 ITEMS TO CHOOSE FROM HOT AND COLD! COME ON IN, RELAX AND ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THE BAY.

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National Headlines

• Angelo's Ashes Burned Us

  6 min ago | via New York Post 

  On July 24, 2007, then-Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo jumped onto a conference call announcing the second-quarter results of his company, the largest mortgage provider in the US with a 15 percent ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• More homeowners rent in sagging market

  3 hrs ago | via St. Cloud Times Online 

  MINNEAPOLIS - Sean Kirschner tried for a year to sell his three-bedroom home in Montrose but got only five showings even with a price reduction.

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• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  3 hrs ago | via Press & Argus 

  Mortgage companies were greedy and made mortgages that should not have been made.

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• Truth Needed To Stabilize Markets

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  It's not over. Despite mid-week relief for financial stocks, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney says the financial markets won't be able to stabilize until there is more truth-telling. Rather than ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ansonia, CT

• Plastic Problems

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  Where will the money come from? Gas and food prices are rising, mortgage interest rates are adjusting higher, loans are harder to find and unemployment is ticking up.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage