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Redfin says housing costs could return to their 2018 level within five years if mortgage rates fall to 6% and home prices keep growing about 2.1% a year
Housing costs could return to their August 2018 level within five years, Redfin said October 8, if mortgage rates drop to 6% and home prices...
Ohio investigators recovered all $15,300 a 63-year-old lost to a crypto ATM scam
Ohio investigators recovered every dollar, $15,300, that a 63-year-old Allen County woman lost to a crypto ATM scam, Attorney General Andy Wilson’s office announced October...
Hurricane Isaias put about 777,000 Gulf Coast homes with $241.6 billion in rebuilding value at wind risk, Cotality estimated October 9
Hurricane Isaias put about 777,000 homes in the eight Hurricane Warning counties from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle at moderate or greater risk of wind...
Consumers expect medical care costs to rise faster than food, rent and gas over the next year, a New York Fed survey released October 7 found
Households expect medical care to be the fastest-rising cost over the next year, with the median respondent putting the increase at 9.2%, according to the...
An Iowa man admitted laundering money from a scheme that took out at least $21,992,037 in bank loans in his name and the names of 26 unwitting customers
Curtis Weston, 35, of Rockwell City, Iowa, pleaded guilty on October 2 to one count of money laundering tied to a bank-loan scheme that moved...
A Ukrainian-Russian man admitted laundering money for hackers who raided over 750 U.S. bank accounts using more than 15,000 unwitting money mules
Oleg Korniev, a 42-year-old dual citizen of Ukraine and Russia, pleaded guilty on October 8 to running a laundering network that moved money stolen by...
A commodities trader under a federal trading ban got 33 months after at least 128 investors, including a church, lost over $2.7 million through ‘My Nest Egg’
A commodities trader from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was sentenced on October 7 to 33 months in prison after at least 128 investors lost more than...
A Canadian man got 33 months and must repay $256,000 for recruiting fake bail bondsmen in a grandparent scam aimed at about 20 elderly Americans
A federal judge in Vermont sentenced Paul Conneh, 39, of Moncton, New Brunswick, to 33 months in prison on October 6 and ordered him to...
The Trump administration is putting up to $27.8 million into falls prevention for older adults, as non-fatal falls cost an estimated $80 billion a year in health spending
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced October 9 that it is putting up to $27.8 million over three years into 10 falls-prevention...
Fake federal agents talked 24 California and Nevada victims out of $597,100 in cash, and the courier who collected it pleaded guilty October 5
Binghui Liu, 33, a Chinese citizen formerly of San Jose, pleaded guilty on October 5 to laundering about $597,100 in cash that he collected from...
Patients of Sonic Healthcare, Aurora Diagnostics and two other labs caught in the AMCA data breach have until January 4 to claim from a $6.4 million-plus fund
Patients of Sonic Healthcare USA, Aurora Diagnostics, Clinical Pathology Laboratories and Austin Pathology Associates have until Monday, January 4, 2027, to file a claim from...
Celsius investors and creditors have received more than $3.4 billion through bankruptcy, and New York can collect up to $35 million from ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky if he fails to forfeit $10 million or serve his full sentence
More than $3.4 billion has now been distributed through the Celsius Network bankruptcy, New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Oct. 9, as her...
A former Santander bank employee got 30 months for stealing more than $125,000 from a 78-year-old customer with dementia, wiring some of it to Portugal
A former Santander Bank employee in Rhode Island was sentenced on Oct. 8 to 30 months in federal prison for draining more than $125,000 from...
About 69,000 Amazon Prime members in two D.C. ZIP codes will get back nearly half their membership fees after Amazon quietly excluded them from fast delivery
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced on October 1, 2026, that Amazon will pay $8.25 million to settle claims that it secretly cut two Washington...
Pennsylvania to mail free chip SNAP cards to over 1.7 million recipients in late spring 2027
Pennsylvania plans to start mailing chip-enabled benefit cards to the more than 1.7 million people on SNAP, the program once known as food stamps, in...
HMSA raises 2027 premiums to $240 a month on two Akamai Advantage Medicare plans, up from $160 and $151
HMSA, Hawaii’s largest health insurer, has told about 16,000 Medicare Advantage members that their Akamai Advantage Complete Plus and Standard Plus plans will not be...