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Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury Department will step up public pressure on lenders to finish modifying more home loans to troubled borrowers under a $75 billion campaign against the record tide of foreclosures.
Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time. There isn't a farm within miles of where she grew up on Chicago's west side, but she's set to graduate with a bachelor's degree in crop sciences... Bachelor's degree - Academic degree - Agriculture - United States - Harvest
In Louisiana, training scenarios in mock Afghan villages are created from intelligence reports fresh from the front.
An 18-year-old man shot during an argument in the hallway of a South Side building last week died Saturday night.
Talk about your brazen holiday heists.Two women drove up in a gray SUV to a southwest suburban subdivision in broad daylight, then pilfered a 6-foot-high reindeer decoration made from pine branches.The $200 decoration stood right outside a security building at the Carillon Lakes subdivision in Crest Hill. The thieves left behind another reindeer.Confronted by residents in the 2 p.m. reindeer ...
With a convicted bank robber and a former methamphetamine user in charge, John Muir Charter School on Treasure Island is not your typical public school. But the typical public school experience didn't work for the 105 students at John Muir. Among them are...
Plans for a temporary Lake Champlain ferry service aimed at providing a temporary link for the now-closed Lake Champlain Bridge are moving ahead, with the state of Vermont hiring a contractor to build the ferry landing on the Vermont side.
THINKING BIG The Golden Gate Bridge under construction in 1937, when an era of huge public works projects was under way.
A wave of M.B.A.’s, bankers, chemists and others are taking over or starting wineries and infusing them with a level of business expertise usually found only at big brands.
Locomotive engineers at Canada's largest railroad walked off the job on Saturday after talks broke down, but Canadian National Railway said it was using management and non-union staff to provide "the best possible service under the circumstances."
SUNDAY, Nov. 29 Several airlines will begin adding 10-dollar surcharges on most of their tickets. TUESDAY, Dec. 1 WASHINGTON -- National Association of Realtors releases pending home sales index for October, 10 a.m; Commerce Department releases construction spending for October, 10 a.m.; Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee hearing on aviation safety, focusing on pilot fatigue.
Timothy Walker has one message for all the homeowners facing foreclosure in Western New York: If you get a letter inviting you to come to court, don’t be afraid. Just show up.
The walkout may create difficulties for U.S. and Canadian manufacturers and resource companies.
The hearing was for the first civil suit to be heard in court involving parents suing a dairy company and a supermarket over tainted milk.
Average rates for 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages fell this week, matching a record low set last spring. Rates are more than a full percentage point below what they were a year ago, Freddie Mac said Wednesday.
Penn State Coach Cael Sanderson is redshirting his entire freshman class, considered the best in the nation, to develop their talent.
