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With her home completely disassembled, Nancy Keates focuses on managing the construction of her new house.

A reporter journeys to the Sunshine State and finds that high-end homes are now selling for bargain prices. His conclusion: the real estate market is even worse than you hear.

House prices dropped 1.7% in the first three months of 2008 from the previous quarter — the largest quarterly price decline on record, according to Ofheo. Prices were 3.1% lower than last year.

House prices dropped 1.7% in the first three months of 2008 from the previous quarter — the largest quarterly price decline on record, according to Ofheo. Prices were 3.1% lower than last year.

June Fletcher ponders whether readers, weary of bad news on the housing market and wary of missing a deal, should rent or buy a home.

HOUSTON — More than 50 Texas cities, including Houston, now have “No Smoking” signs posted at restaurants and bars. But a handful of companies are beating the smoking ban by offering smokers an electronic way to legally get their nicotine fix while indoors.

“It’s illegal to take 462 children on allegations that cannot be confirmed,” said local attorney Gonzalo Rios, whose client, Cynthia Joy Jessop, refused to sign her service plan. “Here we are 60 days later, and they’re still treating everyone like a bunch of abusers.”

Kicking out over 8.1 Million undocumented immigrants who work as bus boys, landscapers and other jobs in the US, would cost nearly $1.8 trillion in annual spending. Both California & Texas will be hit the hardest.