The home of a Texas judge who ordered the removal of hundreds of children from a polygamist ranch is being guarded by police after Utah and Arizona authorities warned the state to be on the lookout for polygamist “enforcers.”
The Deseret News reported in a copyright story for Wednesday’s editions that police guarding the judge’s San [...]
Rose Tremain won the Orange Broadband Prize for women’s fiction last night with The Road Home, a topical novel about an Eastern European immigrant.
Tremain, 64, had been shortlisted four years ago but the British author has never won any of the top three literary prizes the Booker, the Costa and the Orange despite being a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The past few weeks, Adobe has been doing its best Apple imitation, with a slew of product news aimed at creative professionals.
Macworld has already carried profiles of Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com this week. But I thought it would be a good idea to look at Monday’s announcements from a creative pro perspective.
With Acrobat 9 Pro, [...]
Home builders Hovnanian Enterprises and Toll Brothers Inc. have had a tough week, reporting quarterly losses amid the suburban housing slump. But home builder Lennar Corp. was granted a gift from San Francisco voters on Tuesday night.
City voters soundly supported a measure that will allow the Miami-based builder to develop a sprawling, 770-acre property into [...]
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 [...]
Philadelphia courts will launch a pilot program next week requiring mediation between homeowners and lenders before foreclosure can occur.
The program is one part of a plan Mayor Michael Nutter unveiled Wednesday to address a nationwide mortgage crisis affecting many Philadelphia homeowners.
The city has already taken steps to address the problem, including delaying the sheriff’s sales [...]
Home prices in Britain fell 2.5 percent in April, Nationwide, the country’s largest building society said Friday.
Prices have fallen seven consecutive months and are now 4.4 percent below a year ago.
Home prices in Britain peaked in October at an average price of $367,7620, the report said.
Howard Archer, an economist at Global Insight, said April’s figures [...]