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Florida Tops Mortgage Fraud List

According to the Mortgage Asset Research Institute, properties in the Sunshine State accounted for nearly a quarter of all mortgage fraud incidents.
Properties in the Sunshine State accounted for nearly a quarter of all mortgage fraud incidents, the Mortgage Asset Research Institute said. Californi…

Tips for safe grilling

Studies reveal that boiling or grilling meats by too much heat invents chemicals, known as HCAs, that may be carcinogenic. I think it’s a fair assumption that nobody wants their summer barbecue to be cancer-causing, so follow these safe cooking tips to reduce that risk:

Marinate your meats …

Jupiter,Florida wins Cal Ripken World Series

The U.S. representative at the Cal Ripken 12-and-under World Series - Jupiter, Fla. - proved a resilient team with a penchant for the long ball.

It was never more apparent than yesterday’s title game against defending champion Mexico. Jupiter also provided a dose of drama.

Catcher Logan Heiste…

New Yorker Obama Cover: Ironic or Offensive?

Barack Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton is calling that week’s New Yorker cover art “tasteless and offensive.” The illustration by Barry Blitt depicts the Illinois senator in the Oval Office wearing traditional Muslim garb while doing a “terrorist fist jab” with his wife Michelle, …

What happens when you get a sunburn

During the summer, my son goes to day camp . It’s an awesome camp — very structured, very active, and he always comes home with stories of the fun things he did that day. final Thursday they went on a field trip to the beach. My son came home prickly and hot from a sunburn. (They applied sunscr…

Florida to convert sugar lands to wetlands

The State of Florida has recently announced its plans to spend $1.75 billion in a purchase of up to 300 square miles of Everglades from US Sugar Corp., the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar. The state plans to eventually restore that land to its original natural wetland state.

There…

Man sheds 80 pounds eating McDonald’s

If you’re suddenly trapped inside a McDonald’s for six months — don’t concern — there’s plenty of food to outlive and you may even lose a few pounds. In fact, a Virginia man lost 80 pounds by eating nearly every one of his meals at McDonald’s by the final six months.

Chris Coleson weighed …

Fish for the brain

Fish really is brain food. A recent European study of elderly men and women found that those who regularly ate seafood did way better on cognitive tests than those who ate little or none. The more fish these old folks ate, the better they did on their tests. Effects were more pronounced for non-proc…

Steps for having sugar-free kids

Cakes, cookies, ice cream, and popsicles. These sugary treats seem to be ingrained in every child’s diet, particularly the cold treats during the summer.

We all know that refined sugar is naughty for us, so what is a mom to do? Is it really possible to keep refined sugar out of your child’s d…

10 tips for saving hundreds on your electricity bill

Summer is awesome. Nice weather, outdoor cooking, baseball — there’s plenty of reasons to get excited when June finally rolls around. But it can be rough on your wallet — particularly considering, now that temperatures in some parts of the country now hover amidst 80 and 100 degrees 24 hours a …

Reduce your exposure to pollen

It’s that duration of year again, the sniffling, sneezing, itchy-eye moment of year. Pollen is a major trigger for folks with allergies, and since it’s not springtime without pollen, there’s little you can do to avoid it totally.

If pollen gives you a problem, however, you can reduce your expo…

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