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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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Local Headlines

• Critical areas, car seat laws launch

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Daily Times 

  SALISBURY -- Starting today, state laws will go into effect to protect children through dental care, required car seats and lead restrictions in toys.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Somerset County, MD, Salisbury, MD, Annapolis, MD

• Florida woman sentenced to over 4 years in fraud scheme

  May 9, 2008 | via Mortgage Fraud News 

  In the following press release R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida , Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Michael Fithen, ...

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  Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Secret Service, Home, Mortgage

• Three Sentenced in Florida for Multi-Million Dollar Mortgage Fraud Scheme

  Apr 25, 2008 | via Federal Bureau of Investigation 

  R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that defendants Richard Weldon ...

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  Related Topix: Coconut Creek, FL, Deerfield Beach, FL, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Florida, Home, Mortgage

• Feldman's building up for sale

  Jan 27, 2008 | via Daily Times 

  From the rooftop, a picture-perfect view of the sunset over the Wicomico River is enough to entice a hesitant prospector to swoop up the landmark Feldman's building off The Plaza downtown.

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• Woman Dies After Fight Over Rifle

  Dec 29, 2007 | via ThePittsburghChannel 

  A struggle over a rifle in Somerset County led to a woman being shot to death, police said.

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  Related Topix: Somerset County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• US presidential election won't stop foreclosures 4:54AM ET

  14 hrs ago | via BusinessWeek 

  Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Pennsylvania, 2008 Presidential Election, Foreclosures

• Chester County

  16 hrs ago | via Baker County Standard 

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• Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'

  21 hrs ago | via Log Cabin Democrat 

  In this April 1, 2008 file photo, Joseph Barratt, 55, and others demonstrate outside a HOPE NOW home ownership preservation workshop at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage

• Budget not only bill state legislature passes

  Friday | via Standard Speaker 

  By ROBERT SWIFT Harrisburg Bureau Chief HARRISBURG While the state budget commands the lion's share of attention this time of year, state lawmakers also approved three major pieces of legislation that will ...

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  Related Topix: Pittston, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Pennsylvania

• Ex-Reading broker gets 12 years in $29M mortgage scam

  Thursday Jul 3 | via InYork 

  HARRISBURG -- A former mortgage broker sentenced to federal prison Wednesday blamed his poor business acumen for causing hundreds of Pennsylvania homeowners and investors to lose more than $29 million in what ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lancaster County, PA, Berks County, PA

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  7 min ago | via The Daily News 

  IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.

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  Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion

• Pawning Jewels Or TV's For Gas $$$

  7 min ago | via WBAL-AM Baltimore 

  This Liberty Loan and Jewelry employee holds up a ring and a necklace recently sold at the shop.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Gwynn-Oak, MD, Mortgage, Home

• American dream goes global

  11 min ago | via Boston.com 

  She was raised in a little wooden house with a thatched roof in the Dominican Republic, a nation she left behind 17 years ago to clean offices in Boston's skyscrapers and dorm rooms at Harvard University.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, World News, Dominican Republic, Central America, Boston, MA

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  12 min ago | via Jacksonville Daily News 

  Columnist's Note: This letter has been edited for length. Dear Troubleshooter: I read your column all the time and find it most informative.

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  Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  16 min ago | via The Business Journal of Phoenix 

  High foreclosure rates and the increasing number of individual and small-business bankruptcies are keeping attorney Dan Gukeisen’s services in demand.

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