Firefighters from more than a dozen agencies on Monday were battling to stop a 700-acre wildfire as it came within a mile of about 2,000 homes on a hot and windy day, officials said.
Two volunteer firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, said Mary Kay Hicks, a Texas Forest Service spokeswoman. No other [...]
Authorities in southwestern Minnesota are investigating a home invasion in which an intruder was shot and wounded.
Police responded to a call shortly after midnight from a home near Truman, which is southwest of Mankato. Marcella Sauck called to report that a man was in her home and assaulting her husband, Elmer.
Marcella Sauck was flown to [...]
Some East Bay residents are calling on three national banks to renegotiate their mortgages to help them avoid losing their homes.
About two dozen people protested outside the Antioch branches of Countrywide, Wachovia and Washington Mutual on Friday.
The protest was organized by a Contra Costa County interfaith group that wants the banks to convert customers’ risky, [...]
The family of an elderly dementia patient who was raped by a carer in her nursing home say they are appalled that her attacker has been sentenced to serve only six months in jail.
Thirty-six-year-old Henry Alexander was found guilty of raping the 85-year-old woman while he was washing her at her Mount Eliza nursing home [...]
Two brothers who worked together as window cleaners plunged 47 stories yesterday morning with their scaffold from the roof of an Upper East Side apartment building. One was killed, cut in half by a wooden fence in an alley below, and the other was gravely injured but somehow survived.
The cause had not been determined, the [...]
The Home Depot Inc. wants to build a store in Cameron Park, but some nearby residents are rallying opposition.
The home-improvement retail chain is targeting 33 acres off Highway 50 near Cambridge Road and Country Club Drive. It has submitted a pre-application for a 103,000-square-foot store plus a 35,000-square-foot garden center. Another 123,000 square feet [...]
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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 [...]
Let’s not assign blame. Let’s forget that dads, and guys in general, are apt to say things like, “I don’t need a present. I have everything I need” or “I just want everyone to be happy” or, worse, “I don’t know.”
But all of us Dad, Mom, significant other, child, co-worker need to recognize [...]
Activists are urging Home Depot, which recently unveiled an environmentally conscious marketing program, to withdraw advertising from Fox News, whose hosts and commentators dismiss global warming as liberal hysteria. But Home Depot is unswayed, and the environmentalists appear to be doing something they generally discourage: wasting energy.
A short video by Robert Greenwald, Fox Attacks: The [...]