A wind stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento burned dozens of homes Tuesday and has forced thousands of fire-weary residents to flee, state officials said.
Firefighters were also struggling against a sudden drop in humidity and a 10-degree spike in temperature as a heat wave forecast to linger until the weekend grips much of the state.
Fire crews [...]
Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.
The decision is bad news for home owners and sellers and makes Wisconsin the only state in the country barring civil fraud cases in real estate transactions, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley said. [...]
Authorities in southwestern Minnesota are investigating a home invasion in which an intruder was shot and wounded.
Police responded to a call shortly after midnight from a home near Truman, which is southwest of Mankato. Marcella Sauck called to report that a man was in her home and assaulting her husband, Elmer.
Marcella Sauck was flown to [...]
DeKalb County police are looking for two home invaders who tied up a wife and husband in their house Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened around 3 p.m. in a neighborhood near Emory University, police said. A woman living in the 2800 block of Laurelgate Drive on the DeKalb side of Atlanta pulled into her driveway to [...]
It always has been good to be home but not quite like this year. Credit better rest, a familiar routine, knowledge of a ballpark intricacies, a roster customized to maximize those intricacies, what have you. Simply, playing at home is an advantage.
Home teams in 2008, however, are winning 58.0 percent of their games, more three [...]
Police are investigating the theft of 6,000 comic books reported stolen last month from a Bellevue home.
Police suspect that someone with ready access to the home took the collection because there were no signs of forced entry. However, police don’t think the current residents were involved, Grannis said.
It was unclear whether any of the comics [...]
A multimillion-dollar home at the center of a dispute between 50 Cent and the mother of his son was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Friday.
Six people, including 50’s ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and their 10-year-old son, Marquise, were taken to a hospital after suffering smoke inhalation and later released. A firefighter suffered a minor eye [...]
Brink’s Home Security Holdings Inc. on Friday filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to its anticipated spin-off from Brink’s Co.
The deal has been approved by the Brink’s board. No shareholder vote is required.
Under terms of the deal, Brink’s shareholders will receive a tax-free stock distribution from the new company.
As separate [...]
Surprise police are searching for three people who reportedly broke into a home early Saturday morning and held a man at gunpoint while they stole items from the residence.
The victim said he was awoken by three intruders inside his home in the 15900 block of Mountain Vista Ranch Boulevard about 2:30 a.m., said Surprise Lt. [...]
Home Affairs Director-General Mavuso Msimang has stuck to his guns about allegations that members of Parliament’s Home Affairs Portfolio Committee were “actively in contact†with departmental officials accused of corruption.
This came despite this week’s declaration by the committee’s chairman, Patrick Chauke, that Msimang had failed to substantiate his claims against the MPs.
Msimang told the Sunday [...]