Eleven months after a devastating flood, more and more lights are coming back on in Rushford.
Take 83-year-old Don Woxland. The businessman and his wife, Laurine, are putting the finishing touches on their new modular home. It replaces a 13-room mansion that was lost in last August’s flood.
The Woxlands’ neighbors across the street have a new [...]
Greater Sacramento’s home values have declined 30 percent since the peak of the housing market in fourth-quarter 2005, according to a real estate Web site.
And almost 70 percent of families in the four-county region who bought their homes in 2006 have negative equity, one of the highest rates in the nation but far from the [...]
As torrential rain and flash floods devastated the UK, the village of Quedgeley in Gloucestershire was just one of the many places that were trying to cope with the disruption, and Cannon Hygiene were on hand to help.
The UK�s leading hygiene and environmental specialists took a call from a business in the Gloucestershire village requesting [...]
Home equity loans are harder to come by as secondary market investors rethink their exposure to the struggling U.S. mortgage industry.
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Bob, a homeowner who’s short on cash, recently came across an old solicitation for home equity credit. He pondered his growing credit [...]
The first blood test for lung cancer may be one step closer to reality.
Doctors at Duke University have developed a lung cancer blood test that focuses on four blood proteins.
The test isn’t ready for lung cancer screening. But if it succeeds in further [...]
University of Minnesota scientists are field testing a beneficial insect, a stingless wasp from China also known as Binodoxys communis, that kills soybean aphids. A successful field test would be a major breakthrough in controlling a damaging crop pest. The U of M received permission from the federal government to conduct this test and is [...]
The researchers report that the invasive whiteflies are successful at least in part because they breed more when they come into contact with native whiteflies, and they also suppress the native whiteflies’ reproduction rates.
The study demonstrates that behavior can play a critical role in animal invasions, the authors say. Understanding the invasion process is important [...]
The potato cyst nematode (PCN), Globodera pallida, attacks potato crops all over the world and is particularly devastating in developing countries where the potato is a subsistence crop. A %26pound;1.7 million project led by the University of Leeds to fully sequence its DNA, hopes to shed light on the mechanisms that make the tiny worm [...]
Campbell Bary’s passion for wool knows no bounds. It causes normal social courtesies and politeness to go out the window. “When I meet a sheep farmer who’s wearing polyester or polarfleece or any of that synthetic crap then I tell them straight, it’s no use moaning to me about the price of wool,” he says. [...]
Investigators are still trying to determine what sparked last week’s fire as businesses clean up and start the rebuilding process.
Bulldozers continue to pull apart debris on Center Street in New Haven. It has been nearly a week since a roaring fire ripped through the city block and there’s still a lot of work to be [...]