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Top Three Ways to Boost Your Credit Score (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - The average American's credit score is 723. Having a high credit rating can give you better interest rates on credit cards, car loans and even your mortgage. It's important to know the top factors that affect your score and check your credit report for accuracy. us.rd.yahoo.com
Bad Credit and Home Refinance (Today's News-Herald) (ARA) - Mortgage rates are at historic lows, and it seems like everyone's jumping on the refinance bandwagon these days. But is it really a good idea for people with bad credit? us.rd.yahoo.com
Secured credit cards: 10 questions to ask -- (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance) People with little credit or bad credit can join the world of the carded -- for a price. us.rd.yahoo.com
Local auto repair owner sentenced for identity theft (13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads) NORFOLK (AP) -- The owner of three auto repair businesses in Hampton Roads will spend 10 years in federal prison for stealing his customers' identities and fraudulently obtaining more than $600,000. us.rd.yahoo.com
If It?s Wooden, Old and Once Kept Time, Call Him (New York Times) Robert Coffin, now 90, has been fixing clocks that run on cogs and springs for most of his life. us.rd.yahoo.com
Negotiation and Consolidation Help Eliminate Debt (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - For people with more than $10,000 worth of credit card debt, the first reaction is often to panic and the last resort is to declare bankruptcy. Between panic and bankruptcy, there are options with organizations that will help you renegotiate and consolidate debt. us.rd.yahoo.com
A nightmare day for UK plc (Financial Times) The credit crunch has caught up with corporate Britain. Two examples on Wednesday show how far the impact has spread beyond the banking sector. Shares in Taylor Wimpey lost almost half their value after the UK’s largest housebuilder by volume said that it had failed to secure a cash injection to repair its balance sheet. us.rd.yahoo.com
Expert: Steve Bucci (Bankrate.com) Dear Debt Adviser, I just recently turned over my credit card debt of $50,000 to a debt management company which promises to have me debt-free in 30 months. I am paying $602 for the first six months and then $915 for 24 months (which goes into an account to pay the creditors). us.rd.yahoo.com
Club gym opens after 6 months of repair (Moorpark Acorn) Nearly six months after 80mile-an-hour winds blew the shingles off its gym and rain flooded the inside, Moorpark Boys & Girls Club celebrated the reopening of its facility. The updated gym opened last Thursday, with a gathering at the site on Casey Road. us.rd.yahoo.com
Owner of three auto repair shops gets 10 years for fraud (The Virginian-Pilot) NORFOLK They squeezed into Courtroom 3 on Tuesday morning, more than three dozen victims of Charles E. Perry Jr.andrsquo;s multitude of auto-repair and identity-theft scams. Perry, a 46-year-old father of four from Suffolk, pleaded for leniency in a tearful speech to U.S. District Judge Henry ... us.rd.yahoo.com
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