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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

• Volunteer with New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Associated Content 

  Years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, there is still much work to be done in the ravaged areas of New Orleans and beyond, and several nonprofit organizations have steadfastly been rebuilding, ...

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  Related Topix: Southern University System, New Orleans (Southern University System), Home, Mortgage, Louisiana

• Louisiana

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Town of Vivian, Louisiana 

  Officially licensed Louisiana State Tigers apparel, merchandise, and gifts. Jerseys, t-shirts, caps, and sweatshirts for men, women, and kids.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Louisiana, Natchitoches, LA

• Landrieu, Vitter target loan fees

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Times-Picayune 

  Prompted by the intense lobby effort of a local mortgage broker, Louisiana's two senators have authored legislation that could force Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to suspend a new set of fees that could stall the ...

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  Related Topix: US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Louisiana, US Politics, David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, US Senate, Republican, Democrat

• Governor Jindal Signs Bills into Law

  Thursday Jul 3 | via KLFY-TV Lafayette 

  Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he has signed the following bills passed by the legislature into law: HB 10 - Richardson This bill establishes the Mayor's Court of the city of Central.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, Louisiana

• Fannie, Freddie Fail to Relieve Housing Crisis By Shunning Jumbo Mortgages

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via Bloomberg 

  Three months after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won the freedom to step up home-loan purchases, the government-chartered mortgage-finance companies are doing what critics in the Federal Reserve and Congress had ...

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  Related Topix: Louisiana, Housing, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  4 min ago | via NWI Times 

  CRAWFORD, Texas - Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in ...

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  Related Topix: Crawford, TX, George Bush, Foreclosures, Housing, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat

• No slowdown for the downtown

  6 min ago | via Edmonton Sun 

  As executive director of the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton, it's a given Jim Taylor would be revved up about the city's core.

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  Related Topix: University of Houston System, Downtown (University of Houston System), Housing, Arlington (University of Texas System), University of Texas System, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Alberta, Opinion

• Lehmans Lament

  8 min ago | via New York Post 

  Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld may have earned himself a temporary reprieve from the onslaught of bad news buffeting his firm and it just might offer him enough time to decide its fate.

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  Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Investment Services, Home, Mortgage, Business News

• Will homeowners abandon loans?

  3 hrs ago | via Coshocton Tribune 

  COLUMBUS - Experts say fretting homeowners who worry the mortgage market is worsening are, well, making the mortgage market worsen.

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

• Take Stock in Florida: Dow 14,000 salad days long gone

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Dow 14,000 - a new all time high. How long has it been? It was in July - Was it in 2003? 2004? 2005? 2006? It seems longer than just a year ago, doesn't it? Time flies when you're having fun.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Auto Dealers, Financial Markets