Want to buy a new home but keep your low-interest rate? Try this simple mortgage hack
High interest rates are one of the biggest obstacles facing buyers entering the housing market today: As anyone who has bought a home in the past few years knows, interest rates have more than doubled since 2020. For a 30-year fixed-rate mortgageAverage interest rates these days are in the mid 6% to 7% range. So […]
Ohio high school baseball player chases runner down from outfield, tags him out at home in bizarre sequence
During a high school baseball game, for the first time in baseball history, an 8U was recorded at home plate on the scorecard. In an Ohio Division game, Marion Local center fielder Griffin Barnes chased a runner around the bases before getting him out at home — a sight that had to be seen to […]
Colorado Gov. Polis signs funeral home regulatory crackdowns into law
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed two bills that overhaul the state’s oversight of the funeral home industry following a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 bodies decomposing inside funeral homes, fake ashes being sent to families, and body parts being sold without a license. The lawsuits have drawn attention to Colorado’s lax regulations […]
Pennsylvania dad detained in Turks and Caicos to return home after paying fine for having ammo in luggage
A judge in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday morning handed down a suspended 52-month prison sentence to Brian Hagerich, a Pennsylvania-based father of two and former professional baseball player who pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). Hagerich, 39, is one of five Americans who have been arrested […]
Buying a Home Harder Than It’s Been in a Decade, Average Home Unaffordable by Nearly $70K
On Thursday’s “NBC Nightly News” broadcast, NBC News business and data reporter Brian Chung said that according to NBC’s new Home Buyer Index, “it’s harder to buy a home now than it has been at any time in the last decade,” and that “the average home is now about $70,000 more than the average household […]
Rapper Sean Kingston’s Home Raided by SWAT; Mother Arrested on Fraud and Theft Charges
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — SWAT teams raided rapper Sean Kingston’s rented South Florida mansion Thursday and arrested his mother on fraud and theft charges that stem in part from her installing a giant TV in the home, her lawyer said. Broward County detectives arrested Janice Turner, 61, at her 14,000-square-foot (1,300-square-meter) home in Southwest […]
Arizona Woman Delivers Baby In Hospital Parking Lot After Being Sent Home
WSMV reported that an Arizona woman gave birth in a minivan outside a hospital on Monday after being sent home by a nurse. Sherazado Bedarte Gonzalez gave birth to her daughter in a minivan just outside the emergency room at Banner Casa Grande Medical Center. according to The incident happened early Monday morning, and although […]
Fani Willis Tells MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow She Left Her Home, Has 24/7 Security
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday that she felt forced to leave her home and has 24-hour security. Judge Scott McAffee decided not to outright disqualify Willis from Trump’s Georgia case over her “personal relationship” with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, offering the choice of Wade or Willis and […]
Woman gives birth in hospital parking lot, claims nurses sent her home hours earlier
An Arizona woman reportedly gave birth in a minivan parked in a hospital parking lot two hours after being sent home by a nurse, her family claims. Sherazado Bedarte Gonzalez gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Luzbela, early Monday morning, just feet from the emergency room at Banner Casa Grande Medical Center in Phoenix. […]
George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool gets blue plaque | George Harrison
Number 12 Arnold Grove, in the Liverpool suburb of Wavertree, looks like an ordinary red-brick terraced house that only someone with a deep understanding of the city’s celebrity homes would recognise. But now a blue plaque will be installed identifying the house as the former home of “silent” Beatle member George Harrison. The plaque at […]