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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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

Local Headlines

• Home sales tumble locally

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Evening Sun 

  Home sales in York and Adams counties are plummeting like never before in recent memory. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Real Estate, York Metro, Littlestown, PA, Adams County, PA, Housing, York County, PA

• Census: Adams tops in Pa. for new businesses

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Evening Sun 

  Census statistics released by a state agency this week paint a picture of thriving business and development in Adams County between 2005 and 2006.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Gettysburg, PA, Adams County, PA, York County, PA

• Real Estate: Hanover a bright spot in declining market

  May 27, 2008 | via Evening Sun 

  In the shadow of recent statistics showing a declining housing market nationwide, affordable housing remains a bright spot, according to presenters last week at a seminar sponsored by Healthy Adams County's ...

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  Related Topix: York, PA, Real Estate, Gettysburg, PA, Housing, Adams County, PA, Hanover, PA

• Economic crunch makes it harder for families to make a living

  Dec 15, 2007 | via Chambersburg Public Opinion 

  Michelle Ruquet works 40 hours a week, and travels 70 miles a day to and from her job at Adams County Prison in Gettysburg.

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  Related Topix: Adams County, PA, Gettysburg, PA, Franklin County, PA, Chambersburg, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Drug Dealer Gets 7 To 20 Years

  Dec 12, 2007 | via WGAL 

  An Adams County man has been sentenced for his role in a drug ring. Tyrone Tengbe, 22, of Gettysburg, was sentenced to 7 to 20 years in prison and fined $30,000. Police said Tengbe brought in cocaine and heroin ...

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  Related Topix: Adams County, PA, Gettysburg, PA, Drugs, 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

• Democratic challenger trails Biggert in funds

  6 min ago | via Lincoln-Way Sun 

  Democrat Scott Harper pushed his second-quarter fundraising above that of his opponent Judy Biggert by loaning himself $50,000. Not counting the loan, the 46-year-old Oxford student received $228,192 in ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Illinois, Will County, IL

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  6 min ago | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  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 the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Clarkstown offering new incentives to retain volunteers

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  Clarkstown is offering all emergency service volunteers in the town discounted passes to the popular mini-golf course at Germonds Park.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Nanuet, NY

• Official's son got DSS broker fees, some while working for county

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  MOUNT VERNON - A real estate company run by the son of city marshal and former Democratic boss Serapher Conn-Halevi collected $162,000 in private-vendor fees from the Westchester County Department of Social ...

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  Related Topix: Westchester County, NY, New York Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  10 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion