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INDIANA FLOODING-LOANS Feds OK loans for flood-damaged Indiana counties INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal agency has approved Gov. Mike Pence's request for low-interest loans for victims of April flooding that caused heavy damage in three central...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal agency has approved Gov. Mike Pence's request for low-interest loans for victims of April flooding that caused heavy damage in three central Indiana counties. Pence's office said Friday the U.S. Small Business...

My husband and I paid our annual visit to the financial adviser who watches over our undoubtedly inadequate retirement savings, an appointment that is not unlike those with the dentist: necessary but never fun. During our meeting, I proudly listed the...

The Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point hosts its annual home and garden tour on Mother's Day, May 12. The tour will include, as usual, some of the well-known sites in the neighborhood such as the Robert Long House (circa 1765)...

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook Home was introduced with much fanfare one month ago. So far it has not lived up to the hype. The app for Android smartphones has a two-star rating in the Google Play store. And the HTC First phone -- the first to come...

Queue up for the house tours May 17-19 of Project Home in Southington. This showcase house displays the materials and features that local builders, vendors and designers now offer. The project is a joint effort between FOX CT and the Home Builders and...

It's a unique partnership between business and a Florida nonprofit: retailers provide building materials and housewares to a warehouse that distributes the items free or at cut-rate prices to other nonprofits, churches or schools. Pompano Beach-based...

A home improvement contractor who took $6,050 to renovate a Bethlehem man's upstairs bathroom instead spent the money on child-support payments and did virtually no renovations, police said. Daniel N. Diaz, 42, of the 5100 block of Spruce Road, Upper...

On busy Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, some well-kept facades conceal a secret. Behind the Mediterranean with wooden doors, the white stucco two-story with a red tile roof, the long wall obscuring a three-structure compound, hides a singular,...

DYESS, Ark. (AP) - Organizers haven't set a date yet but the restoration of the Johnny Cash home in Dyess is on track to open in 2014.   The project by Arkansas State University also includes restoration of a nearby theater and the Dyess Colony...

(Corrects Tony Hsieh's title to CEO of Zappos, not founder, in 40th paragraph) * Institutional investors inflating Las Vegas market * Fed easy money policy boosting some housing markets * Some investors backing away from housing trade * Vegas...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Michael Marchillo, a plumber, has been trying and failing for months to buy a bigger home for his family here in Sin City. He was pre-qualified by a bank for a $130,000 mortgage, which a year ago would have landed a typical three-...