WaMu and National City plummet (CNN Money) bi13221503 Shares of Washington Mutual and National both plunged Monday as fears grew about the credit crisis plaguing big banks

Why our banks took hit National City Corp.'s stock plunges on financial fears bi13221503 Just one business day after regulators seized California-based IndyMac Bancorp Inc., concerns about Cleveland-based National Corp. continued to rise Monday

You can fight City Hall, but ain't easy (Abilene Reporter-News) bi13221503 All he wanted to do was get water to a house he was renovating. What Danny Stevens got was a bureaucratic mess that left Abilene Council members shaking heads, apologizing and urging staff to reconsider the way they handle such matters. "I can't tell you how much my blood pressure has gone up morning," council member Joe Spano said Thursday after listening to Stevens ..

Bath businesses to stay open late on Fridays summer (The Times Record) bi13221503 BATH ? Merchants Bath have organized to keep the 's downtown open late on Fridays summer

A couple of fresh new townhouses: Go city modern or lake views. (Philly. bi13221503 $849,900 Philadelphia 1808 Kater St. Taxes: $1,600 (estimated), 10-year tax abatement Extra wide and luxuriously finished, three-bedroom, 31/2-bath townhouse has a handsome modern kitchen marble counters that opens out to a deck. Also offered are a garage, a finished basement powder room, and a ground-floor den sliding doors leading out to a backyard shaded by a ..

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24-Hour Room Service: Pousada Picinguaba, Ubatuba, Brazil (Belfast Telegraph) bi13221503 How to make the perfect caipirinha: top and tail a lime, quarter it, cut each quarter two, throw a cocktail shaker a heaped dessertspoon of sugar, crush a wooden spoon, add eight ice cubes, a measure of cachaça (or white rum), shake well, pour and drink

Residents excited (The Norman Transcript) bi13221503 Howard Sandlin has lived Norman for the past four decades after he left Oklahoma for greener pastures just a few miles down Interstate 35."It's a good place to raise a family, the school districts are good and we've got just about anything you want here," Sandlin said

Irvine Ranks No. 4 On Magazine's 'America's Best Places To Live' (NBC 4 Los A bi13221503 The of Irvine ranks No. 4 on Money magazine's tally of "America's Best Places to Live."..

Kuwait Crime News (Arab Times) bi13221503 Kuwait : A Kuwaiti family spent three days at Syrian border before a reprieve came way, due to inability to pay the exit fee of 500 Syrian lira, having exhausted vacation funds, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily

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24 bodies found near Mexico City - Los Angeles Times bi13221503 EiTB 24 bodies found near Mexico Los Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour ago By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer MEXICO CITY -- Gagged and bound, the bodies were dumped on a grassy roadside littered trash. Organized crime takes control parts of Mexico Kansas Star Mexicans Find 24 Dead and Suspect Drug Gangs New York Times Police find 24 bodies Mexico USA Today AFP - Reutersall 83 news articles..

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