Better times for homeowners

May 07, 2015 - Daily News Briefing

The "foreclosure crisis" that accompanied the Great Recession is over.

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The mayor of Baltimore called on federal investigators Wednesday to look into whether this city's beleaguered police department uses a pattern of excessive force or discriminatory policing. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said even though complaints of excessive force and lawsuits alleging misconduct are down over the last few years, "we all know that Baltimore continues to have a fractured relationship between the police and the community."

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appeared to have practiced a controlled descent on his flight into Barcelona just two hours before he intentionally crashed the A320 jet into a mountainside on the return flight to Dusseldorf, air accident investigators said Wednesday. Authorities are still puzzling over why co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had suffered from suicidal tendencies and depression in the past, sent the Barcelona-to-Dusseldorf flight straight into the French Alps on March 24, killing all 150 people on board.

As a member of what he called "the people's house" for more than a generation, Texas Democrat Jim Wright was known for his rich oratorical skills in the US House. He never relied on them more than the day in 1989 when he told those who had elected him Speaker of the House that he was prepared to resign after being accused of violating ethics rules dozens of times. The congressman, World War II veteran, and author was living in a nursing home when he died early Wednesday morning, according to the Harveson and Cole funeral home in Fort Worth.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he'll discuss with Saudi Arabian officials how to implement a "humanitarian pause" in Yemen's civil war, citing increased shortages of food, fuel and medicine that are adding to a crisis that has already caused thousands of people to flee to neighboring countries. At a news conference in Djibouti, an African nation that has taken in several thousand refugees from Yemen, Kerry that it was important that conditions to the pause are adhered to so that no party uses the time period to seize territory or otherwise exploit the situation.

A central Florida woman helped save herself and her children by sending a message in an online pizza order that asked employees to call 911 because she was being held hostage. The Avon Park Pizza Hut employees spotted what Cheryl Treadway wrote in the comment section of her online order. Employees recognized Treadway as a regular customer and called the sheriff's office. Sheriff's deputies went to the residence, where they escorted Treadway and her children to safety and arrested her boyfriend, who was armed with a knife.

US worker productivity declined in the first three months of the year as labor costs jumped, reflecting a slowdown in growth. The Labor Department said Wednesday that productivity, which is the amount of output per hour of work, fell at 1.9 percent rate in the first quarter. Productivity dropped at a 2.1 percent rate in the final three months of 2014. Labor costs surged at a 5 percent rate in the first quarter, after having increased 4.2 percent in the fourth quarter.

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