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 [...]
Anthony Tesvich, a former highly paid Home Depot flooring buyer, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Atlanta to four crimes, including tax evasion and fraud.
He was the mastermind behind a kickback scheme that netted him millions of dollars and filled the pockets of several former Home Depot colleagues with hundreds of thousands of dollars [...]
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 [...]
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Home mortgage lenders are following the lead of enthusiastic infomercials by touting some compelling advantages of a new generation of first-lien home equity lines of credit.
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Borrowers who have great credit have always been wooed by lenders with the best interest rates and [...]
Even if you’ve never hacked your way through a jungle, you can imagine there are plenty of pitfalls. Poisonous snakes, annoying insects, and dangerous species-these are all perils you face when you veer off the beaten path. Tapping your home equity is no different. With a home equity loan, there are as [...]
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 [...]
Nationwide, the federal government paid at least $1.3 billion in crop to people who do no farming at all. Some of them collect hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The payments were originally intended to be a first step towards eliminating costly, decades-old farm subsidies. Instead, they have grown into an even larger subsidy that benefits millionaire [...]
Some of Washington’s most partisan politicians are pushing a plan together to turn American doctors on to computerized drug prescriptions.
Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who ran for president in 2004, is joining with conservative former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on a plan to give [...]
Going against conventional wisdom, property experts say sellers are better off ensuring their homes are clean and tidy than sinking cash into bathroom and kitchen renovations. At the height of the property boom, investing thousands of dollars in do-up projects could double seller’s returns. But with the national median house price dropping from $350,000 [...]