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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

• Home sales tumble locally

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Evening Sun 

  Home sales in York and Adams counties are plummeting like never before in recent memory. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Real Estate, York Metro, Littlestown, PA, Adams County, PA, Housing, York County, PA

• Census: Adams tops in Pa. for new businesses

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Evening Sun 

  Census statistics released by a state agency this week paint a picture of thriving business and development in Adams County between 2005 and 2006.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Gettysburg, PA, Adams County, PA, York County, PA

• Real Estate: Hanover a bright spot in declining market

  May 27, 2008 | via Evening Sun 

  In the shadow of recent statistics showing a declining housing market nationwide, affordable housing remains a bright spot, according to presenters last week at a seminar sponsored by Healthy Adams County's ...

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  Related Topix: York, PA, Real Estate, Gettysburg, PA, Housing, Adams County, PA, Hanover, PA

• Economic crunch makes it harder for families to make a living

  Dec 15, 2007 | via Chambersburg Public Opinion 

  Michelle Ruquet works 40 hours a week, and travels 70 miles a day to and from her job at Adams County Prison in Gettysburg.

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  Related Topix: Adams County, PA, Gettysburg, PA, Franklin County, PA, Chambersburg, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Drug Dealer Gets 7 To 20 Years

  Dec 12, 2007 | via WGAL 

  An Adams County man has been sentenced for his role in a drug ring. Tyrone Tengbe, 22, of Gettysburg, was sentenced to 7 to 20 years in prison and fined $30,000. Police said Tengbe brought in cocaine and heroin ...

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  Related Topix: Adams County, PA, Gettysburg, PA, Drugs, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Yesterday | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania State University System), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

• Don Spatz,

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times 

  I've taken shots at the Pennsylvania Department of Banking for hiding behind a legal gag and refusing to say what really happened in the Wesley Snyder case.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Consumer Prices Jump by the Most Since 2005 on Surge in Fuel, Food Costs

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bloomberg 

  Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 2005 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, intensifying the pressure on households struggling with falling home prices and the credit crunch.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Ben Bernanke, Pennsylvania

• Economic Outlook: Midwestern banks to see tough round of quarterly results

  Sunday Jul 13 | via MarketWatch 

  A wave of gloomy results from the second quarter are expected to be the highlight of reports that Midwestern regional banks will issue in the coming days, analysts say.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Marshall University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  5 min ago | via Quamnet 

  "This is a challenging time for families across our nation," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, Housing, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Property cools in capital with glum economy

  6 min ago | via Viet Nam News 

  Certain sectors of the Ha Noi real estate markets have cooled over the past few months as a result of the global economic slowdown, domestic inflation and limited liquidity on the market driven by high interest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ha Tay, Vietnam, World News, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Vietnam

• Real estate newsmakers

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Originally from Long Island, N.Y., Brownyard relocated to Houston, Texas, where she was in the insurance business.

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  Related Topix: Northeastern University, Housing, Cape Coral, FL, Sanibel, FL, Morris (University of Minnesota System)

• What to do in a time of foreclosures

  3 hrs ago | via Lansing State Journal 

  'If there's ever a time to buy, it's certainly now because the prices are so low,' said David Whitcomb, broker and owner of Whitcomb Realty in Lansing.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Lansing, MI, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ingham County, MI

• Foreclosures affect communities

  3 hrs ago | via Lansing State Journal 

  The foreclosure crisis affects more than just individual homeowners. It has an impact on entire neighborhoods and communities.

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  Related Topix: Lansing, MI, Lansing Metro, Foreclosures