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 [...]
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 [...]
Gao Ping’s arms are still bruised and scratched from scrambling over boulder-strewn roads and dodging rain-slick landslides.
The 43-year-old migrant worker wasn’t here when the earthquake struck on May 12. Instead, he is one of millions who had left their hometowns for better jobs in their country’s white-hot economy, only to race back on a wrenching [...]
L&G has based its figures on the minimum hourly wage, saying 41 per cent of us would rather splash out ï¿¡700 a year on help than roll up our own sleeves.
This is probably a good thing, if you then read the other report from Halifax Insurance, which claims more than half a million people in [...]
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 [...]
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Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.
An Associated Press analysis of financial data from the country’s largest card issuers also found that the greatest rise was among [...]
Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.
An Associated Press analysis of financial data from the country’s largest card issuers also found that the greatest rise was among accounts more than [...]
Identity theft struck more than 27.3 million Americans between April 1998 and April 2003, reports Timothy L. O’Brien, with more than a third being victimized in the last year alone. In that one-year period, businesses and banks lost $48 billion while individuals had to personally pay $5 billion in order to straighten out their [...]
A good home security system includes more than just protection against human invasion. Fire, water, and gases are among the imminent dangers that affect the safety of families and homes.
Every year fire, carbon monoxide, water, and other natural causes jeopardize domestic safety. What should you do to prepare for these dangers? [...]
The American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter received a $10,000 grant from The Home Depot to support the chapter’s goal in 2008 of educating at least 80,000 St. Louis-area residents through Community Disaster Education presentations.
The presentations are designed to prepare people for a variety of emergency situations, including fires, floods, earthquakes [...]