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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

Local Headlines

• Farmland values rise as crop prices soar and demand for home sites climbs

  Feb 22, 2008 | via Kansas City Star 

  Real estate signs linger for months in the yards of unsold houses in Kansas City.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Mitchell County, KS, Agriculture, Science

Regional Headlines

• Obama Veep Search Turns To Dodd

  Thursday Jul 10 | via CBS 5 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 3 comments

  Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Kansas Government, Kansas

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Kansas Storm Victims

  Thursday Jul 10 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Stafford, KS, Kansas, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Starbucks closing 600 stores nationwide

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator is still feeling the pain from ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Ohio Democrats get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via WXIX-TV Cincinnati 

  Governor Kathleen Sebelius is telling Ohio Democrats that the door of the White House only opens through their state.

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  Related Topix: Kansas Government, Kansas, Ohio, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures

• Ohio Democrats to get pro-Obama message

  Saturday Jun 21 | via KansasCity.com 

  Democratic governors who won in states that twice backed George W. Bush have lessons to offer presidential nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama, one of those governors planned to tell Ohio Democrats on ... 5 comments

  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Kansas Government, Kansas

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  7 min ago | via The Leaf Chronicle 

  I'm responding to the article dated June 29, 2008, "Local industry a big deal to Little." First of all, I would like to say in the rise of the real estate market there was one good thing I found when moving to ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clarksville, TN, Opinion

• Letter: Council decisions

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Editor: After reading Stuart Rawling's letter of July 11, I would also like to add some of my additional concerns regarding the City Council and its decisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Welcoming foreclosure

  3 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

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

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  10 min ago | via The Herald 

  Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  28 min ago | via Tideland News 

  In today's market, selling a home involves much more than posting a "for-sale" sign in the yard.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Construction