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Obama administration bolsters homeowner lifeline (Reuters)

A new home development is shown in Miami in this January 26, 2010 file photo. Housing-related stocks declined after data showed sales of new single-family homes fell for the first time in four months in December of 2011 and were shy of Wall Street expectations. The data followed the soft pending home sales report on January 25, 2012 and dented optimism that the housing market may have reached a bottom. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS REAL ESTATE)Reuters - The Obama administration, in an election-year bid to help distressed homeowners, on Friday expanded its main foreclosure prevention program, and pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive mortgage debt.


Fri Jan 27 17:07:43 UTC 2012
'Barefoot Bandit' gets 6-1/2 years for federal charges (Reuters)
Reuters - A serial burglar nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced on Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway.
Fri Jan 27 17:21:28 UTC 2012
Connecticut killer sentenced to die for "unimaginable horror" (Reuters)
Reuters - A judge ordered Joshua Komisarjevsky to be executed this summer for the 2007 murders of a mother and her two daughters during a brutal home invasion in Connecticut, saying on Friday that he committed a crime of "unimaginable horror."
Fri Jan 27 13:12:43 UTC 2012