Fixed mortgage rates fell last week to the lowest point of the year. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 5 basis points this week, to 4.61 percent, according to the Bankrate.com national survey of large lenders. A basis point is one-hundredth of 1 percentage point. The mortgages in this week’s survey had an average...
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Bernard Hopkins became the oldest champion in boxing history Saturday night by winning a unanimous decision against Canadian Jean Pascal to claim Pascal’s WBC title belt. Hopkins, who turned 46 in January, eclipsed the record set in 1994 by George Foreman, who knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round to win the heavyweight...
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Harold Camping, a radio host and leader of an obscure Christian movement, has proclaimed that the world will end on May 21 based on his interpretation of the Bible — and millions of people have taken notice. For Camping and his followers, Judgment Day is serious business, even though past predictions by Camping about...
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The deadline for the apocalypse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia without a bang. So it seems Harold Camping’s latest prediction that the world will end Saturday, May 21, 2011, is proving to be false. According to the Christian broadcaster, Judgment Day was supposed to bring a massive earthquake, powerful enough...
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Dallas Weins, 25, of Fort Worth received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an anonymous donor. The operation was paid for by the U.S. military, which hopes to use findings from the procedure to help troops with severe facial wounds. Wiens joined surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in...
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Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, have separated, with Shriver moving out of their Brentwood mansion while the two determine the next step in their 25-year marriage. The breakup comes about four months after Schwarzenegger ended a bumpy, two-term run as California governor, a job his wife never wanted him to...
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The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping houses in low-lying neighborhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes.
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Appearing on The Steve Malzberg show, Sen. Rick Santorum expanded on the critique of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war on terrorism he offered during the GOP presidential debates in South Carolina last week. “I think he had not performed very well at all,” Santorum told Malzberg. “I’d say the biggest thing on...
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LeBron James scored 35 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead Miami Heat to a 98-90 overtime victory over the Boston Celtics on Monday night and give the Heat a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. LeBron James has experienced enough heartbreak in Boston, with the Celtics ending his season at TD Garden...
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Memphis-area residents were warned Saturday that the Mississippi River was gradually starting to “wrap its arms” around the city and rise to record levels. Officials were going door-to-door, warning about 240 people to get out before the river reaches its expected peak Tuesday. In all, residents in more than 1,300 homes have been told...
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