Around the region (Post-Tribune)

VALPARAISO Law clinic offers free services: The Valparaiso University Law Clinic offers free jural services to community members who otherwise would be unable to access the jural system. Services are available by appointment Mondays through Fridays. Eligibility is based on income, case time and clinic availability. The clinic assists with tenants' rights, wills, divorce, domestic violence, child ...

Swedes reach new peak in mountains of debt (The Local)

Swedes are further in the red with the national debt collection agency than ever before, with accumulated debts currently totalling 64 billion kronor ($9 billion).

Neighbors try to make sense of Ogden murder-suicide (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Ogden » Neighbors on Sunday called Robert and Patricia Stom quiet, polite and nice people. But the couple also had health problems, and police and neighbors were left to wonder whether that is why Patricia Stom shot and killed her husband and then herself.

Mixed bag of business news this year in Lackawanna County (The Scranton Times-Tribune)

The recession lingered in Northeast Pennsylvania, causing rising unemployment, more layoffs, a collapse of some retailers and restaurants and a slight rise in foreclosures. It wasn't all bad news. There were some bright spots with natural gas exploration

Home Buyers Use Text Messaging To Receive New Foreclosure Listings On Their Cell Phones (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

LAForeclosureFinders.com, a real estate company focusing on San Fernando Valley foreclosures and short sales, announced today that it has started using text messaging software to communicate with prospective home buyers and push new foreclosure listings to their mobile phones. Â "Home buyers no longer have to search the internet for new foreclosure listings. Â With our new real-time text message ...

Legals for issue of 12-9 (Bolivar Herald-Free Press)

Enterprises Unlimited Inc. Polk Co. Sheltered Workshop Accepting Open Bids for 2010 Commercial Property/Auto Insurance. Please contact: archangel Dublin. Deadline for Bids: 12/28/2009. Phone: (417)326-6464.

Heir might not be liable for mother's nursing-home debt (The Columbus Dispatch)

Dear Debt Adviser: My only living parent has died. I am her only child. She was receiving disability from the Ontario government, which was used to pay for her nursing home and medication.

Clay Garbage Collection Fee Increase (WCBI Columbus)

WEST POINT, Miss. (WCBI) - The Clay County Board of Supervisors have reached a decision on garbage fees. At their regular Thursday board meeting, Clay County supervisors agreed to raise garbage collection fees from $7 to $10 per month.

Nursing home nags heir to pay deceased parent’s debt (The Times Herald)

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Culver unveils efficiency ideas (The Gazette)

WEST DES MOINES â€" Gov. Chet Culver unveiled 90 proposals â€" some controversial â€" Tuesday aimed at saving nearly $1.7 billion over five years by streamlining and reshaping government agencies and services. The ideas supplied by a paid consultant ranged from big-ticket savings via state employee retirement incentives and changing debt collection and unclaimed property approaches [...]

Counterpunch thrown (The Sharon Herald)

The legal fight put up by the Sharon Sanitary Authority to keep a Herald reporter from reviewing delinquent sewer accounts is “alarming and unreasonable,” Herald attorney William G. McConnell said in a document recently filed in Mercer County Common Pleas Court.

Ackermann Proposes Fund as Merkel Seeks Lending Boost (Update1) (Bloomberg)

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann proposed a private-bank fund to increase corporate loans at a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel that failed to identify a unified strategy to avert a credit squeeze.

Dig Your Way Out Of Debt (WSMV Nashville)

A debt collection expert gives tips on how to get bill collectors off your back and start digging your way out of debt.