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Home mortgage refinancing benefits
A home mortgage refinance can lower a borrower's monthly payment and provide other benefits.
2010-07-12 05:00:00 -
Junk Spreads Narrow as Economic Slowdown Concern Fades: New Issue Alert
The extra yield investors demand to own high-risk, high-yield debt instead of Treasuries fell for the first time in three weeks as concern over a weakening economy subsided and investors were drawn to riskier assets.
2010-07-12 05:20:54 -
2 Chicago cousins face sentencing in Ohio plot
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge in Ohio is set to sentence two Chicago area cousins who pleaded guilty in a plot to recruit terrorists and raise money for a holy war against U.S. troops.
2010-07-12 05:43:16 -
Mortgage refinance not always worth hassle
Dear Dr. Don, We currently owe $67,000 on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for $132,000. We're seven years into the loan. We put an extra $1,000 on the principal each month.
2010-07-12 06:41:09 -
Refinance not always worth hassle
In some cases, a home loan refinance causes too many headaches to be worth pursuing.
2010-07-12 07:24:20 -
Risk lingers at NC mudslide site 6 months later
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Six months after the largest mudslide to hit the North Carolina mountains in years, residents kept from their homes for months continue living with the threat of a repeat.
2010-07-12 07:26:02 -
One-time suspect in wife's death faces new charges
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A southwestern Illinois man once ordered confined to a mental-health center in his wife's stabbing death now faces charges he assaulted the mother of his infant baby.
2010-07-12 07:58:16 -
Hefner offers to take Playboy private
CHICAGO (AP) -- Playboy Enterprises says its iconic founder is offering to buy the remaining shares of his media empire in a deal that would take the company private.
2010-07-12 08:13:16 -
Police: Belleville teen gunned down
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Law enforcers from various agencies are helping investigate the shooting death of a teenager on a Belleville street.
2010-07-12 08:13:26 -
Sea of debt
Despite holding full-time jobs, a growing legion of workers is finding it tougher to make ends meet as utility charges soar. Geoff Strong reports.
2010-07-12 08:55:42 -
Man killed in southwestern Illinois ATV wreck
SHIPMAN, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities say a man was killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was riding crashed in southwestern Illinois' Macoupin County.
2010-07-12 08:58:26 -
Chicago's new gun ordinance goes into effect
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago's new gun ordinance is now the law. The gun ordinance the City Council passed quickly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that is sure to invalidate Chicago's handgun ban went into effect Monday.
2010-07-12 09:28:16 -
Blago trial resuming, deputy on the stand
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial is getting under way again Monday with former Deputy Governor Robert Greenlee still on the witness stand.
2010-07-12 09:43:16 -
Woman ordered imprisoned in illegal immigrant case
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- A Texas woman has been ordered to spend one year and four months in federal prison on charges that she transported seven illegal immigrants in southwestern Illinois.
2010-07-12 09:43:26 -
Study tracks chemicals in Ohio River
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Researchers are detecting dozens of chemicals and pharmaceuticals in the Ohio River upstream and downstream from Louisville. The Courier-Journal reports that among the substances found were antidepressants, veterinary hormones, and cocaine.
2010-07-12 10:43:18
