Saving money on your home
Simple strategies for paying off your mortgage sooner and reducing expenses. There are dozens of ways to make your housing investment pay off faster and at a greater return. In some cases, a small extra outlay may be required, sometimes every month, but the added expense is often pocket change when compared to the available savings.
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Robbery at Wilmington area insurance office probed
Delaware State Police are investigating a late Friday afternoon robbery at Muncie Insurance and Financial Services, 4401 North Market Street, outisde the Wilmington city limits.
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Car Choice: A little forward planning can pay dividends
Kerry Dickinson is just 16 and is already thinking ahead to when she will be able to drive. She lives in rural Norfolk and getting around is a huge problem. Although a moped is an option, she would rather wait another year and save for a safer, more comfy and warmer car. Kerry is aware that this will be costly, but wants to be prepared and have an idea about which cars she should be considering.
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Obama Criticizes Insurers in Bid to Sway Public on Health Plan
March 9 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama and his top health official are stepping up attacks on the nation’s insurers as they work to sway public opinion and persuade lawmakers to back U.S. health-care legislation.
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Insurance money seen as motive for deadly arson
Prosecutors say the owner of an apartment building in a Chicago suburb had his maintenance man set it on fire, killing seven people, because he wanted to collect the insurance money.
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Xenoport Fires Half of Workers After Drug Turned Down (Update4)
March 5 (Bloomberg) — Xenoport Inc. said it will fire half its 219 employees and shelve programs aimed at long-term development of new drugs after its lead product candidate was turned down last month by U.S. regulators.
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Assembly panel advances distracted driver bill
Police in New Jersey may soon have to note whether a driver was distracted before having an accident.
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PCCW Says Chairman Richard Li’s Buyout Plans ‘Dead’ (Update1)
March 10 (Bloomberg) — PCCW Ltd. said investors should consider as “dead” Chairman Richard Li ’s plan to buy out Hong Kong’s biggest phone company after police began a probe into the bid and judges ruled it had been manipulated.
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Senator wants La. to reject health care overhaul
BATON ROUGE — A Louisiana lawmaker wants to nullify the federal health care overhaul, if it edges through Congress.
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Foremost Insurance Encourages All Consumers to Know Their Flood Risk
Devastating floods occur throughout the United States almost every year and are the number one natural disaster in the country. That’s why Foremost Insurance encourages every person to review their flood risk leading up to National Flood Awareness Week, March 15-19, 2010. (PRWeb Mar 8, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Foremost_Insurance/flood_risk …
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