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7.4 quake shakes Mexico, damaging 100s of homes

A woman comforts her children outside a school at the Roma neighborhood after a earthquake felt in Mexico City Tuesday March 20, 2012. A strong, long earthquake with epicenter in Guerrero state shook central southern Mexico on Tuesday, swaying buildings in Mexico City and sending frightened workers and residents into the streets..(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Tuesday, damaging some 800 homes near the epicenter and swaying tall buildings and spreading fear and panic hundreds of miles away in the capital of Mexico City.


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Apparent tornadoes hit Alabama homes, prison (AP)

AP – Apparent tornadoes destroyed houses, sent people to hospitals and tore up the roof of a maximum security prison in northern Alabama as bad weather threatened more twisters across the region Friday, two days after a storm system killed 13 people in the Midwest and South.

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Wildfire near Reno destroys more than 20 homes (AP)

A house burns just south of the Old 395 Gas Station Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 in Washoe Valley, Nev. Winds gusting up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving brush fire south of Reno out of control on Thursday as it burned several homes, threatened dozens more and forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Liz Margerum)  NEVADA APPEAL OUT;  MAGS OUT; NO SALESAP – Firefighters were able to stop the progress of a fast-moving brush fire near Reno Thursday, but not before the wall of flames burned more than 20 homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate several neighborhoods.


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Sales of new homes up in October, but prices fall (AP)

This Oct. 18, 2011 photo, shows new home construction in a development in Canonsburg, Pa. Americans bought slightly more new homes in October, but the median sales price fell to its lowest level this year. The mixed report suggests the nation's housing market is a long way from recovering. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP – Americans bought slightly more new homes in October, a hopeful sign for the troubled housing market. But the median sales price fell to its lowest level of the year, and the overall sales pace is trailing last year’s — the worst in half a century.


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Marijuana fills foreclosed homes in Las Vegas area 

Houses emptied by foreclosure are filling up again in Las Vegas – with marijuana.

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Protesters march past millionaires’ NYC homes (AP)

Protestors affiliated with the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests wave signs and banners outside 1185 Park Avenue, where Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, lives, during a march in New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. The crowd marched through out the Upper East Side neighborhood, protesting outside the homes of various billionaires and bank owners. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)AP – Now it’s personal: Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a “Millionaires March” on Tuesday past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer “Tax the rich!” and “Where’s my bailout?”


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Israel approves 1,100 new homes in east Jerusalem (AP)

A man works on a construction site in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. Israel's government on Tuesday granted the final go-ahead for the construction of 1,100 new housing units in occupied east Jerusalem, raising already heightened tensions fueled by last week's Palestinian move to seek U.N. membership. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP – Israel granted the go-ahead on Tuesday for construction of 1,100 new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any freeze in settlement construction, raising already heightened tensions after last week’s Palestinian move to seek U.N. membership.


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