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  • Real Estate Nothing to fear from zombie houses

    Zombie houses are what RealtyTrac is calling properties vacated by owners who have moved out and moved on with their lives after getting tired of waiting for their lenders to foreclose. In a new report, the first-ever "foreclosure inventory " found 301,874 "zombie" properties have been abandoned by their owners. Last year at this time some 7.73 percent of all mortgages were ...

  • Types of people the IRS pays more attention to

    nonprofit organization with conservative ties. Even so, you may be a candidate for a tax audit-and you may have no clue what you have done to warrant the attention of the IRS. The nation's tax collectors have long made it a practice to look for discrepancies, omissions and suspicious activity to uncover tax evasion and fraud. And lately, the IRS ...

  • NFL stars medical issues may be mounting

    will have surgery next week to replace a plate in his left forearm, Albert Breer and Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network report. Gronkowsk broke his forearm while blocking on a fourth-quarter extra point attempt in a 59-24 win over ...

  • China April housing inflation quickens

    By Xiaoyi Shao and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing inflation quickened in April, marking the fourth consecutive year-on-year rise and challenging policymakers who are trying to cool record home prices while supporting ...

  • Malibu retreat with four-star pedigree for sale

    Actor Nick Nolte's Malibu compound is for sale. Previous owners include comedian Tommy Chong, Don Felder of the Eagles and music producer David ...


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Movie Review

The Man in the Iron Mask

"The Man in the Iron Mask," based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, is a well-made adventure film that doesn't have much adventure. It has a lot of beautiful French locations, a stunning A-list cast of actors, and technical merit oozing from every corner, but it never really grabs hold of you the way a good swashbuckling adventure should. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the ... ...

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  • Ocean vistas at Glass House in Manhattan Beach

    The two-bedroom, three-bathroom home on the Strand features beach and ocean views, curved walls of glass, a spiral staircase, media room and billiard ...

  • Short sales routinely show up in credit reports as foreclosures

    Because of this glitch, borrowers who might be able to qualify for a new mortgage two or three years after a short sale find themselves shut out of the ...

  • When past-due payments are overseen by lawyers

    The HOA office refuses these owners' checks and payments, and they are turned away. Owners thought they were entering into a payment plan with their association, not a debt collecting law firm. Why can't owners pay at the association office? What are the legal ramifications of this law firm's admonitions? Why does the association have to pay the law firm to act as a debt ...

  • Fitch Rates New York City NYs GOs AA Outlook Stable

    New York City general obligation (GO) bonds: --Approximately $950,000,000 GO bonds, fiscal 2013 series I and J. In addition, Fitch affirms its 'AA' rating on the city's $42 billion in outstanding GO bonds. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The bonds are expected to be sold via negotiation on May 22. SECURITY The bonds are general obligations of the city ...

  • 90s game star gets a surprising new home

    "With 'Sonic Lost World,' we're going to introduce new gameplay and enemies, which is always fun," said John Cheng, president and chief financial officer of Sega of America Inc. "In terms of Sonic and his friends, he'll have his same friends there, and I think there'll be some new ones as well. It's not a reiteration. It's going to be all ...

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