Home - Spain's lender Bankia says it won't need more aid
MADRID (AP) — The president of troubled Spanish lender, Bankia, says the bank will emerge as a solid financial entity that will not need further recapitalization after it receives €19 billion ($23.8 billion) in state aid it has asked for.
- ND Housing Finance Agency loan limit increased
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials have increased the maximum loan allowed by North Dakota Housing Finance Agency home ownership programs.
Ind. man takes hostages, shoots self in office
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — Accountant Carolyn Biesen was working in her Indiana real estate office when she heard a commotion near the front desk. She walked out, saw a man standing over her injured co-worker on the ground, then yelled at him to leave.
- Georgia family's tiny house part of bigger trend
BARNESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Andrew Odom and his family recently raised the first wall of their tiny house, on a trailer in his dad's backyard. It took three guys to pick up the whole thing.
- Report: Bloomberg buys $4.5M Westchester estate
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has added a $4.5 million estate to his already extensive real estate portfolio.
Ind. man releases hostages, fatally shoots self
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — A gunman looking for someone he believed owed him money shot himself inside an Indiana real estate office several hours after releasing hostages Friday, and he died after being rushed to a hospital, police said.
Who's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query
What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native American identity is shining a rare spotlight on the malleable nature of Indian heritage and the long history of murky claims to such ancestry.
Spain's Bankia asks for $24B in state aid
MADRID (AP) — Spain's troubled bank, Bankia, has asked the Spanish government for €19 billion ($23.8 billion) in financial support just as a leading credit rating agency downgraded it to junk status.
- Why that flat Facebook IPO isn't so bad after all
NEW YORK (AP) — The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions, but at least we don't have to worry about the one that plagues many IPOs: How are a few select investors able to buy in early at lower prices and then pocket huge profits when the trading frenzy begins?
- NC gov's race heats up with litigation over TV ad
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Pat McCrory's campaign and the political committees behind a television commercial McCrory says is false filed competing legal actions that raise the ante in North Carolina's gubernatorial race.
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