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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

• The Epitaph for Adams County

  Nov 29, 2007 | via GettysBLOG 

  There is an epitaph in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, a throwback to the old west days of Wyatt Earp, and the Cowboys gang.

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  Related Topix: Chambersburg, PA, Home, Mortgage, Gettysburg, PA

• Business people

  Jun 15, 2008 | via Herald-Mail 

  Several trainers from Total Fitness Specialists Inc. recently attended the American Fitness Professionals & Associates annual Fitness, Trainer, Sports & Mind Body Conference in Ocean City, Md.

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  Related Topix: Ocean City, MD, Housing, Clear Spring, MD, Real Estate

• Home prices, sales dip in Franklin County for 2007

  Feb 18, 2008 | via Chambersburg Public Opinion 

  Home prices in Franklin County dipped slightly in 2007 amid signs of a slowing national housing market. 2 comments

  Related Topix: Greencastle, PA, Franklin County, PA, Housing, Real Estate, Home, Home Selling, Opinion

• Franklin County Habitat gets new director as 22nd house is built

  Jan 20, 2008 | via Herald-Mail 

  By DON AINES chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, PA. - Larry McCarthy and Dan Dunton were spackling drywall seams Friday in a rancher on Candlestick Court that, in a matter of weeks, will become home to ...

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  Related Topix: Fayetteville, PA, Chambersburg, PA, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Habitat for Humanity of Franklin County nears completion of 22nd home

  Jan 19, 2008 | via Herald-Mail 

  Michelle Bowen recently was named executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Franklin County.

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  Related Topix: Fayetteville, PA, Chambersburg, PA, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Yesterday | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania State University System), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

• Don Spatz,

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times 

  I've taken shots at the Pennsylvania Department of Banking for hiding behind a legal gag and refusing to say what really happened in the Wesley Snyder case.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Consumer Prices Jump by the Most Since 2005 on Surge in Fuel, Food Costs

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bloomberg 

  Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 2005 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, intensifying the pressure on households struggling with falling home prices and the credit crunch.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Ben Bernanke, Pennsylvania

• Economic Outlook: Midwestern banks to see tough round of quarterly results

  Sunday Jul 13 | via MarketWatch 

  A wave of gloomy results from the second quarter are expected to be the highlight of reports that Midwestern regional banks will issue in the coming days, analysts say.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Marshall University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  5 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  5 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  6 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  8 min ago | via Portland Tribune 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  9 min ago | via The Post-Star 

  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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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Home Listing, 2008 Presidential Election