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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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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Lawyer faces 27 felony charges

  12 hrs ago | via Mt. Airy News 

  Heartland Publications news JEFFERSON - Former Jefferson attorney Michelle Shepherd was indicted Monday by an Ashe County Grand Jury on 26 class C felonies totaling in excess of $3.3 million and one class H ...

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  Related Topix: Ashe County, NC, Mortgage, Home

• With a land-transfer tax proving unpopular with voters, the General...

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Watauga Democrat 

  With a land-transfer tax proving unpopular with voters, the General Assembly may be removing it as a revenue option for local governments.

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  Related Topix: Clay County, NC, Polk County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Real Estate

• Attourney under investigation

  May 23, 2008 | via Jefferson Post Online Edition 

  Law enforcement officials have revealed they are investigating Michelle Shepherd, a Jefferson attorney.

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  Related Topix: Ashe County, NC, Home, Mortgage

• The Elk could be back on the endangered species list. Following...

  May 20, 2008 | via Watauga Democrat 

  COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE The Elk could be back on the endangered species list. Following closed session at last Thursday's regular Boone Town Council meeting, council members unanimously agreed to rescind a ...

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  Related Topix: Watauga County, NC, Boone, NC, Mortgage, Home

• Thousands of people, most of them Appalachian State University...

  Apr 29, 2008 | via Watauga Democrat 

  Former Pres. Clinton stumps for wife at ASU Thousands of people, most of them Appalachian State University students, waited more than two hours to hear former Pres.

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  Related Topix: Boone, NC, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Wray to attend issues conference

  15 hrs ago | via Home in Henderson 

  Rep. Michael H. will be among the thousands of legislators who will gather in New Orleans this summer for the National Conference of State Legislatures' annual Legislative Summit.

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  Related Topix: Southern University System, New Orleans (Southern University System), Mortgage, Personal Finance, North Carolina, Carolina (University of Puerto Rico System), University of Puerto Rico System

• With N.C. Legislature done, '09 challenges begin

  21 hrs ago | via Wral.com 

  Democrats adjourned the General Assembly citing their usual list of accomplishments, which they'll use in appealing to voters to stay in charge of the Legislature for the next two years.

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  Related Topix: Weather, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Natural Disasters, Personal Finance, Drought, US News, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

• Bail out failing banks and mortgage-holders on the brink of foreclosure?

  Friday | via WWNC-AM Asheville 

  North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx takes a firm stand on the troubles in the mortgage and banking industry, by saying 'definitely not'. Foxx believes that liberals in Congress pushed banks to abandon ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia Foxx, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

• NC legislators trying to meet last-minute requests

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via HendersonvilleNews.com 

  Gov. Mike Easley signed the state budget bill into law Wednesday, removing a major obstacle that could have prevented the Legislature from adjourning for the year by the end of the week.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

• Senate backs Easley's mortgage foreclosure plan

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via WAVY-TV Portsmouth 

  A plan to help North Carolina families struggling to make their mortgage payments is on the fast track in the General Assembly.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...

  12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...

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  Related Topix: World News, Kabol, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Asia, Home, Mortgage, Weather, Junction City, CA

• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  11 min ago | via The Daily Star 

  OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

• Words from the

  16 min ago | via Safehaven 

  "The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...

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  Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  20 min ago | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 2 comments Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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• US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound

  22 min ago | via Voice of America 

  The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, DC, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance