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By The Associated Press
2010-09-04T05:08:45Z
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2010-09-04T03:53:34Z
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court has found Eminem's former production company is entitled to more money from downloads of the rapper's songs and ringtones....
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2010-09-04T03:07:46Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday....
By P. SOLOMON BANDA
2010-09-04T02:44:01Z
DENVER (AP) -- A $926 million award to thousands of Colorado homeowners in a lawsuit involving plutonium contamination from a now-defunct nuclear weapons plant was thrown out Friday by a federal appeals court....
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ
2010-09-04T00:30:52Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- More than five decades after a partial nuclear meltdown just outside Los Angeles, state and federal officials Friday announced agreements to remove all contamination and return the atomic energy and rocket engine test site to its natural state....
By TAMMY WEBBER
2010-09-03T22:10:43Z
CHICAGO (AP) -- With less than two weeks before Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn awards a lucrative, first-of-its-kind contract for the private management of the state's $2 billion-a-year lottery, some are criticizing the selection process as too secretive and questioning whether it favors one powerful bidder....
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
2010-09-04T02:54:37Z
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc.'s methods for recommending websites are being reviewed by Texas' attorney general in an investigation spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant search engine....
By MATTHEW DALY
2010-09-04T03:24:18Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What now for the Gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling....
By MARTIGA LOHN
2010-09-03T20:17:57Z
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The first known U.S. outbreak linked to a rare strain of E. coli in ground beef is prompting a fresh look at tougher regulations to protect the nation's meat supply....
By BRIAN MURPHY
2010-09-03T21:08:28Z
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said....
By MATT SEDENSKY
2010-09-03T18:46:18Z
MIAMI (AP) -- Seniors amble the nursing home's halls, while children from around the world visit for biofeedback treatments. One floor down from the hospice, middle-aged workers fill its pain management clinic. A rehabilitation center attracts people of all ages....
By SANDY SHORE
2010-09-03T19:35:05Z
DENVER (AP) -- Gasoline prices have been falling for weeks, and they could go even lower as autumn's leaves begin to drop....
By EMANUEL CAMILLO
2010-09-03T15:35:11Z
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media reported new protests in two other towns....
By ERICA WERNER
2010-09-03T19:44:58Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eager to jumpstart the economy ahead of crucial midterm elections, President Barack Obama said Friday he intends to unveil a new package of proposals, likely including tax cuts and targeted spending, to spark job growth....
By TALI ARBEL
2010-09-03T15:49:54Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. service sector, the nation's predominant job generator, expanded for the eighth straight month in August although the pace of growth slowed, according to a trade group survey....
By ROB GILLIES
2010-09-03T20:50:28Z
TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's Goldcorp Inc. said Friday it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars (US$3.42 billion), trumping a rival bid from Eldorado Gold Corp....
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
2010-09-03T20:48:46Z
HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) -- Summer is rarely a hot sales season for Campbell Soup Co., and this year's sweltering June and July made that even more true, but the company said Friday that cost-cutting and strong drink sales helped its net income climb....
By MICHAEL J. CRUMB
2010-09-03T12:34:42Z
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site....
By DAN PERRY
2010-09-03T17:37:49Z
CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) -- Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook - especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world....
By MALIN RISING
2010-09-03T11:57:51Z
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish investment bank Carnegie AB Friday said it will buy competitor HQ Bank AB, which had its banking license revoked by the financial watchdog last week....
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2010-09-03T11:02:49Z
LONDON (AP) -- BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico....
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2010-09-03T06:19:05Z
MIAMI (AP) -- A bomb squad investigated a report of a suspicious package after police evacuated four of six concourses at Miami International Airport for several hours on the eve of the Labor Day travel period, an airport spokesman said Friday....
By RAY LILLEY
2010-09-03T05:50:24Z
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The reclusive New Zealand billionaire buying the U.S. maker of Hefty brand trash bags to create the world's second-biggest packaging business started out as a tow truck driver and bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy more than a decade ago to become his country's richest person....
By EMILY FREDRIX
2010-09-03T02:55:07Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- Members of the original funk band War say they can't be friends with PepsiCo....
By ALEXANDRA OLSON
2010-09-03T02:25:08Z
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels....
By MIKE BAKER
2010-09-03T05:30:49Z
BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- A two-story Comfort Inn has become a makeshift hurricane hostel on North Carolina's Outer Banks for those who want to stay close to their homes but know they need better shelter from the onslaught of Earl....
By ROB GILLIES
2010-09-02T22:36:13Z
TORONTO (AP) -- The head of a major Canadian pension fund says a Chinese sovereign wealth fund is interested in making a joint-bid with a Canadian pension fund for fertilizer-maker Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc....
By JESSICA MINTZ
2010-09-03T01:48:51Z
SEATTLE (AP) -- Dell Inc. doesn't have to start over in its quest to become a significant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage maker....
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
2010-09-02T23:56:10Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Time Warner Cable Inc. customers will finally get access to the sports website ESPN3.com, even if they are not subscribers of the company's Internet service, according to a long-term deal with The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday....
By TOM MURPHY
2010-09-02T20:40:36Z
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Workers are paying a larger portion of their health insurance costs as businesses shift more of the burden to their employees to help ride out the economic downturn, an annual study shows....
By ALAN SAYRE
2010-09-03T14:44:16Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water....
By BOB SALSBERG
2010-09-04T03:02:19Z
CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) -- The remnants of Hurricane Earl dumped wind-driven rain on Cape Cod's gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages Friday night, disrupting people's vacations on the unofficial final weekend of the short New England summer....
By MELISSA EDDY
2010-09-02T15:35:21Z
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's central bank said Thursday that it will request the dismissal of a board member whose comments stereotyping Muslims and Jews drew outrage at home and abroad....
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
2010-09-02T14:59:40Z
LONDON (AP) -- BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. technology chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored....
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
2010-09-02T14:59:13Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Orders to U.S. factories managed a slight gain in July as a surge in demand for commercial aircraft helped offset widespread weakness in other areas....
By ALAN ZIBEL
2010-09-02T14:19:21Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak....
By GEIR MOULSON
2010-09-02T13:53:18Z
BERLIN (AP) -- The European Central Bank raised its growth forecast for this year and next after a healthy second-quarter performance from the 16 countries that use the euro - but the bank made clear that the outlook remains uncertain and kept up its efforts to offer short-term loans to banks....
By ASHLEY M. HEHER and EMILY FREDRIX
2010-09-02T21:55:13Z
CHICAGO (AP) -- Burger King's new ruler could help its empire expand....
By JESSICA MINTZ
2010-09-02T22:17:41Z
SEATTLE (AP) -- Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc....
By ANDREW VANACORE
2010-09-02T21:10:48Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week....
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
2010-09-02T16:21:09Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- American companies experienced the largest drop in workplace productivity this spring in nearly four years and a rise in labor costs, suggesting businesses may no longer be able to squeeze more work out leaner staffs....
By ERIKA KINETZ
2010-09-02T12:14:01Z
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications - not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion - to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype....
By HARRY R. WEBER
2010-09-04T07:01:17Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP PLC was on Saturday slowly raising the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, careful not to damage or drop a key piece of evidence in the spill investigation....
By MARCY GORDON
2010-09-02T17:50:41Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial crisis that regulators must be ready to shutter the largest institutions if they threaten to bring down the financial system....
By DEB RIECHMANN
2010-09-02T19:02:23Z
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai reassured nervous customers at the troubled Kabul Bank on Thursday, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government....
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
2010-09-03T02:42:45Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- This year's back-to-school season isn't as big a bust for retailers as they feared - or as last year's - but it's not great either....
By STEPHEN BERNARD
2010-09-03T21:37:50Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market had its first winning week in a month thanks to better news on the economy....
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
2010-09-04T03:18:20Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work....
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2010-09-03T05:23:25Z
BANGKOK (AP) -- Oil prices lingered near $75 a barrel Friday in Asia, largely holding onto a big gain the day before as investors put a positive spin on U.S. economic reports and Asian stock markets rose....
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2010-09-03T05:46:24Z
TOKYO (AP) -- Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery....
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Realty Times
The name makes it sound like a place that you crawl in; however, most of us would probably rather pass on the crawl or even a walk-through of this area because of the lack of cleanliness. A crawlspace is typically a shallow area beneath your home between the soil and first floor. It can be very useful and even enticing to buyers if it’s kept up. On the other hand, a crawlspace can become a refuge for unwanted creatures, fungus, and termites.
The Law of Difficulty basically says this: The harder the task, the fewer the people who will try to accomplish it.
Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), and for yet another week, fixed-rate mortgages reached record lows, as did the 5-year adjustable rate in this survey.
It doesn't take a fortune teller to predict that common elements are going to wear out and it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict that HOAs are going to need money and a plan to fix them. So why do so many HOAs fail to properly plan for these predictable events and expenses?
The goal of homeowners everywhere should be to have not only functional, but beautiful entryways.
Even in the face of stagnant - or sliding - home prices, an overwhelming 90 percent of homeowners say they don't regret buying their current home, according to a new study by Bankrate, Inc.
Columnist David Fletcher talk about competitive prices, dependable closings, and less stressed reasons for a move.
Real estate properties along the Gulf Coast oil disaster zone are expected to suffer value losses ranging from 10 to 30 percent or more, but some efforts are afoot to help property owners mitigate those losses.
The landscape of American has changed over the years. As population levels grew, so changed rural and urban demographics.
Is it fair for an HOA (Homeowner Association) to prohibit or restrict a unit owner from renting out his property? Should there be a law about this? In California, these issues are currently being argued in both the legislature and the courts. In some other states the issues may already be settled; in others the debate is no doubt going on.
It's a trend that started decades ago. Even former President Jimmy Carter, in his 1979 "Malaise" speech, warned of its effects if Americans continued on their path.
For most Canadians, a home is much more than a financial investment -- it's a lifestyle choice. If you're ready to get into the real estate market but don't know if you can afford it, here's what you need to know.
Face detection, elevator music, and tips for your next big move. All of these are covered in this month's Cybertips.
With sharp drops in sales of existing and new homes plastered over the front pages and leading the nightly newscasts, it's no wonder the real estate doomsayers on Wall Street have been working overtime.