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While there has been a bump up in the number of single-family home permits issued in Warren County for the first six months of 2010 over the same time period a year ago, foreclosures are on track for yet another record year.

A third finance company in a disastrous ring of lending in Nelson may be placed into liquidation later this month and the Serious Fraud Office has confirmed it is now investigating allegations of wrongdoing.

Evidence shows credit-card rewards aren’t good for us in the long run. Here’s what you can do to wean yourself off them.

‘Your credit history is history,’ says the Radio Rentals ads, and I just had to find out why anyone would seek out customers with a proven inability to pay bills.

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Washington Post Friday, July 30, 2010 iStockphoto.com After the recession forced credit card companies to purge their rosters of the riskiest loans, the industry is facing a new dilemma: customers who are too good. Card issuers have long found their bread and butter in penalty fees and high interest rates paid by consumers who carry a balance. But that business model has been upended by the …

CAR NOT STOLEN, HE BOUGHT IT FROM ‘MIKE’ Darcy Bowerman told a Sudbury judge he thought he had legitimate ownership of the 2010 Kia Forte he was driving around town early Tuesday of this week.

NEW DELHI Bureaucratic hurdles may cause Indias government to miss 2012 investment targets in key sectors such as roads, railways and ports, potentially crimping economic growth, an adviser to the planning commission said on July 21.

British Prime Minister David Cameron trumpeted a $1.1 billion defense deal with India on July 28 an early result of a big diplomatic push to court Indian business and tap new sources of economic growth.