Mortgage rates creep up to 7% as home-buying season begins
Average long-term mortgage rates in the U.S. rose to a five-week high, a setback for prospective homebuyers during what is traditionally the busiest time of the year for home sales. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac announced Thursday that its average interest rate on 30-year mortgages rose to 6.88% from 6.82% last week. The average interest rate […]
Creep hacks into sleeping boy’s toy, starts speaking to him
This mom isn’t playing around. Kelly Medina Enos, mother of two and British media personality, shares a “really scary” cautionary tale about a toy she bought for her 4-year-old son George. Enos claims that somehow an “adult male” took control of the walkie-talkie he ordered on Amazon. “Fundamentally, IMO they are not safe children’s toys. […]
‘Pure evil’: Creep shoves woman, 68, down church steps as she’s on her way to Mass — then steals her purse and her car
A hooded, masked male was caught on video shoving a 68-year-old woman backward down the outdoor steps of a church as she was heading to Sunday Mass, in Queens, New York — then he stole her purse and car after she landed on her head on the sidewalk. What are the details? Surveillance video shows […]
Gas prices creep up amid rising oil prices due to mounting tensions between Russia and Ukraine
Last week, gas prices rose by just 3 cents. (iStock) According to , the average gas price across the country rose just 3 cents last week and now stands at $3.56 per gallon. AAA Weekly Report. Spring is here and the demand for gas is increasing. Demand rose from 8.72 million barrels per day to […]
Homeless creep with 33 prior busts who keeps getting set free nabbed for groping 4 women in NYC spree: cops
Police and prosecutors announced that they have rearrested a homeless pervert with 33 previous busts and a series of perverted molestations against women in Manhattan who kept returning to the streets. Tayheem Menardi, 26, who police said molested four women last week, was arrested on Wednesday, days after he was arrested for bicycle robbery, but […]
Stock market today: US stocks fall as tech, rate-cut doubts creep in – Yahoo Finance
U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, further retreating from record highs as uncertainty over interest rate cuts and strength in tech stocks spooked the market. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) was down about 0.4%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was down about 0.3%, after falling since the start of the week. Continued declines in Apple […]
Creep stuck hand down man sleeping on 6 train’s pants: Cops
Police are on the prowl for a creepy man who stuck his hand in the pants of a man who was sleeping on a northbound No. 6 train in downtown Manhattan early Saturday morning. Police said the 25-year-old victim woke up in the East Village just after 2 a.m. when he felt an unknown man’s […]
Woman, 20, fights off would-be rapist in latest subway terror after creep punches her in face: cops
A 20-year-old woman fought off a creepy man who punched her in the face and tried to rape her on a Queens subway platform as security guards intervened in the disturbing attack, authorities said. Police said they followed the woman from the F train, which had just stopped at Jamaica’s 169th Street Station, around 12:10 […]
Boxcutter-wielding creep Roberto Ortiz arrested for slashing neck of NYC church caretaker who confronted him for peeing on car: NYPD
A vagrant man who confronted and slashed the head of a church custodian who urinated on his car in the East Village has been arrested and charged with attempted murder, police announced Friday. Roberto Ortiz, 28, who is believed to be homeless, attacked John Mach, 54, with a box cutter on January 21st near the […]
Mortgage rates creep toward 7%, straining homebuyer affordability: Freddie Mac
Homebuyers saw mortgage rates inch upward again this week. (iStock) Mortgage rates have been flat for weeks, but have edged higher this week, approaching 7% for 30-year mortgages, according to Freddie Mac. The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for the week ending Feb. 22 was 6.9%, according to Freddie Mac’s latest research. […]