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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Realty Trac 

  The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Editorial: GOP 'Pride in Doing Nothing'

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Falls Church News-Press 

  As the City of Falls Church's representative to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority , City Council David Snyder delivered a scathing indictment against the House Republicans in Richmond who killed ...

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  Related Topix: Falls Church, VA, Virginia, Home, Mortgage, Prince William County, VA, Opinion

• Country Hit By Glut of Gloomy Economic News, Led By Inflation

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Air America Radio 

  Virginian - Pilot By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press WASHINGTON The U.S. economic downturn gained steam Tuesday, with a report of the highest inflation since the early 1980s, more bad news for banks and ...

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Fed Moves to Protect Homebuyers in Future

  Monday Jul 14 | via Air America Radio 

  Virginian - Pilot By JEANNINE AVERSA By Jeannine Aversa The Associated Press WASHINGTON Confronted by record foreclosures, the Federal Reserve is ready to give homebuyers more protection from the types of shady ...

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Washington University in Saint Louis, Washington College, Washington State University, Foreclosures, Ben Bernanke

• June 2008 Most Expensive Sales in Northern Virginia

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Virginia Real Estate News 

  All information was obtained through MRIS. JUNE'S MOST EXPENSIVE SALES Single Family Detached Homes: 1028 Towlston Road, McLean, VA 22102 -- Sold on June 26th for $5,800,000 . This 7 bedroom 7 full bath home ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Fairfax County, VA, Fairfax, VA, Falls Church, VA, Great Falls, VA, Virginia

• State Office Helps Small Businesses Survive and Grow

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Huntington News 

  July 12, 2008 State Office Helps Small Businesses Survive and Grow From The Governor's Desk A weekly column by Gov.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Virginia, Virginia Government, West Virginia, West Virginia Government, Small Business, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Airlines hope credit cards will help bail them out of financial crisis

  6 min ago | via The Seattle Times 

  Who hasn't felt guilty handing a harried flight attendant $20 for a $5 drink, then sat there waiting as he or she runs around the cabin asking other passengers for change? Alaska Airlines' recent decision to ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Travel

• DRPA touts efficiency to sell toll hike plan

  6 min ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  The DRPA is preparing to justify its proposed toll and fare hike to the public this week by demonstrating strong fiscal management, by promising to stick to its mission as a regional transportation authority ...

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  Related Topix: Camden (Rutgers University), Cumberland County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Chester, PA

• Financial crunch hitting seniors

  7 min ago | via Columbus Dispatch 

  Janet and Benjamin Thompson found themselves in the midst of a financial nightmare: an adjustable-rate mortgage about to go up for the second time, credit-card debt and rising medical expenses.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore, OH, Ohio University, Health, AARP, Home, Mortgage

• U.S. taxpayers saddled with another bailout

  8 min ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  We knew it could happen, even though they said it wouldn't. The government is using our money again to haul private companies' hindquarters out of the fire -- this time it's troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Flip side of rescue from lending bust: Homes unafforable

  8 min ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  Doug Gylfe still can't afford to buy a home in Torrance, Calif., despite a 23 percent drop in prices.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Buying, Harvard University, University of California System, Los Angeles (California State University System), California State University System, UC Los Angeles, York (Pennsylvania State University System)