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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