Tethered to the roof for the third year was a huge, inflatable bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade. In the past, the company has showered gifts on her for the advertising privilege, including cases of the alcoholic drink and Mariners tickets.
As crowds enjoyed the final day of Seattle’s annual hydroplane races, a handful of residents living [...]
A man, beaten bloody in his home while robbers took his computer and cell phone; a gun held to a small child’s head during another robbery; a woman tied up with T-shirts in her own apartment before being robbed.
The descriptions sound like scenes from a TV crime drama, but they are from police reports documenting [...]
On Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over IndyMac, the Pasadena, Calif., company that ran out of funding to sustain its large mortgage business. Of its $31 billion of liabilities, about a third were loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and $19 billion were deposits an unusually low percentage of [...]
FBI agents have found needles, syringes, six empty vials of deadly puffer fish toxin and a book about poisoning people in the home of a man who allegedly posed as a doctor to get the legal substance.
Agents arrested Bachner on Monday as he took delivery of a package of the deadly fish toxin at a [...]
Homebuilder Standard Pacific Corp. said Monday its net new home orders, excluding discontinued operations, for April and May fell 12 percent from the same period last year, blaming a tough housing market.
Adjusting for the number of active selling communities, new home orders, excluding discontinued operations, were down 18 percent on a same-store basis, the company [...]
Whether a Jackson firm advertised home security system installation without a license will soon be decided in Jackson County District Court.
At the conclusion of a preliminary examination today, Judge Michael Klaeren said there was probable cause to bind over the case involving the Total Security Agency but only by the “barest margin.”
Russ Jennings, who is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wizard Home Loans is to be offered for sale with an announcement expected this week, The Australian reports.
GE Money, which owns the mortgage lender, has opted for the sale to stave off a bid by Wizard founder and current chairman, Mark Bouris, who is seeking to take back control of the company.
Mr Bouris was believed [...]
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 [...]