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The Justice Department on Thursday trumpeted its efforts to crack down on mortgage fraud, saying it launched an interagency plan to detect costly scams.
Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Housing and Urban Development Inspector General Kenneth Donohue held a news conference in Washington to introduce "Operation Stolen Dreams," a three-month-long "takedown" […]

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Smallwood Drive School may have been toppled from first place this year, but it still has the best cumulative three-year score of any elementary school.
The three-year standings are determined by averaging each school's ranks in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Smallwood was No. 1 the first two years, then slipped to No. 2, yielding an average […]

Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday added Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach to his list of counties he has declared to be in a state of emergency as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On April 30, Crist declared a state of emergency in several Florida Panhandle counties, following the April 21 […]

Comcast Corp. launched its high-speed wireless data service in Houston this week, adding its name to the growing list of local competitors in the wireless data market.
In late March, Kirkland, Wash.-based Clearwire Communications LLC expanded into the Houston area with its mobile Internet service. Sprint launched its 4G wireless service in March as well.
Comcast’s “High-Speed […]

A group of noteholders of bankrupt regional theme park operator Six Flags Inc said on Sunday it submitted an alternative reorganization plan that transfers most of the equity to them.
The group said their plan, submitted to Six Flags’ board of directors on November 25, was supported by noteholders owning more than $500 million of […]

To Val Sklarov, giving tax breaks and millions of dollars in city loans to move a law firm a few blocks across downtown is basically un-American.
But is it legal?
That’s now a question for the courts to decide, after Sklarov filed a lawsuit last week challenging St. Louis city incentives for the redevelopment […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats offered more tax cuts in talks with their prospective coalition partner as they bid to break a deadlock that’s holding up the formation of Germany’s next government.
The Christian Democratic Union raised the amount it’s prepared to spend in tax cuts to 20 billion euros ($30 billion) from an […]

U.S. foreclosure filings climbed to a record in the third quarter as lenders seized more properties from delinquent borrowers, according to RealtyTrac Inc.
A total of 937,840 homes received a default or auction notice or were repossessed by banks, a 23 percent increase from a year earlier, the Irvine, California-based seller of default data […]

The Federal Reserve signaled that the U.S. economy’s return to growth is insufficient to withdraw stimulus as officials seek to reduce the highest unemployment rate in a quarter century.
While the economy has “picked up,” the central bank’s planned asset purchases will help ensure a “gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization,” the […]