The 7-year-old girl who had been missing since Saturday morning was found Monday afternoon - and family said the uncle she disappeared with is expected home Monday night.
Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said detectives met with 7-year-old Kiana Reece Raiford and her mother on Monday.
“He has the utmost respect for his dad,” Raiford said. “I’m [...]
Steve Frazier, a spokesman for the FBI’s Little Rock field office, said Wednesday that the alleged theft affected Twin City Bank, a chain with 17 locations throughout central Arkansas. However, Frazier declined to offer any specifics about the supposed theft, saying any information would be passed along to U.S. Attorney Jane Duke.
“The FBI will be [...]
A fire has destroyed the childhood home of Madonna, gutting the suburban Detroit, MI house in what authorities called ‘suspicious’ circumstances.
Arson experts from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Arson Unit and the Rochester Hills Fire Department are carrying out an investigation into the blaze. They were alerted by a passer-by who saw flames shooting out of [...]
Home sales in Riverside County jumped 4.1 percent in May, compared to the same month a year ago, but prices dipped by 28.6 percent, a real estate information service reported Monday.
According to DataQuick, bargain shoppers pushed Southern California home sales higher in May compared to April, but it was still the slowest May in more [...]
For years, Ed McMahon promised wealth, comfort and happiness as a pitchman for the American Family Publishers’ sweepstakes. Now, he could use some of that cash himself.
As of Wednesday afternoon, McMahon’s Mediterranean-styled house was still in the process of foreclosure; the bank hasn’t taken it over yet and no trustee sale date has been set. [...]
U.S. home builders, struggling under sinking demand and a credit crisis, now face a fresh obstacle: competition from a flood of homes in foreclosure.
Grappling with the worst U.S. housing market downturn since the Great Depression, home builders have curbed their building activities. They’ve also been slicing through their inventories of unsold homes by slashing prices [...]
From leaner food boxes to longer waiting lists, local social service agencies are feeling the pinch. As the economy continues to tank and the cost of everything from groceries to gas keeps rising, more people are asking social service agencies for help.
But those same agencies are having trouble making ends meet, too.
“The needs are up [...]
Sometime next year, a group of scientists will introduce a new labeling system that rate every food product on a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 going to the most nutritious products.
The score will be called the Overall Nutritional Quality Index, or ONQI. The labels will appear on about 40,000 products in Raley’s stores [...]
A survey of 13 countries showed that the British consume the most fast food, just ahead of Americans. The French are the least likely to eat fast foods.
45 percent of British citizens taking the survey agreed with the statement “I like the taste of fast food too much to give it up”. Americans came [...]
Ginger inhibits the growth of ovarian cancer cells, and also modulates the secretion of angiogenic factors.
Angiogenesis is the growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels. While it is a normal process of growth and development, it is also a fundamental step in the transition of tumors from a dormant state to a malignant state.
Ginger [...]