Raising sheep is 'in the blood' for Inbody family
By JIM MAURER Staff Writer Dave and Donna Inbody and their four children do not wait for sleep to count sheep.
 
LETTER: 550 Jobs Do Matter (Flathead Beacon)
What’s a paycheck worth? More to some people than others. Creating jobs and paychecks is, of course, among the important goals of Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act – a bill that blazes a trail to healthier, more productive and more sustainable forests in Montana. Big deal! So shouted one of the bill’s extreme critics in a recent commentary (March 3 Beacon: “Jon Tester, Hostage ...
 
Will mortgage rates rise? Fed action only part of the picture (Everett Herald)
Question: We have been hearing that mortgage rates will go up after March 31st because the Federal Reserve will stop buying mortgage bonds. Is this true? How does that work?
 
It's all madness: NCAA Tournament
Johnson put the Grizzlies on his back and carried them into the NCAA Tournament, overcoming a 20-point halftime deficit in the Big Sky final against Weber State on Weber State's home floor for a 66-65 win to claim the conference's automatic berth.
 
Garden supply shop opens (Great Falls Tribune)
Cody Bachall opened Lime Light on Central Avenue West, carrying supplies for indoor and outdoor gardening.
 
Tax credit helps some home buyers, but doesn't increase number of buyers locally (Courier-Express)
From bail-outs to refunds to stimulus money and tax credits, a floundering economy will often translate to many different types of government efforts intended to breathe life back into struggling economic markets.
 
Study: Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery
Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery.
 
Daredevils insist they know the risks
Daredevils insist they know the risks One of the damaged snow mobiles that participated in the Big Iron Shootout is brought back by helicopter March 14, 2010 near Revelstoke after Saturday's avalanche.
 
Kansas earns overall top seed in NCAA tournament
Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse earned top billing and the No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tournament Sunday, with the Jayhawks named the top seed overall for the 2010 version of March Madness.
 
See also: 'I owe somebody my life'
'I owe somebody my life' Killer avalanche tossed people like ragdolls down B.C. mountainside By SHANNON MONTGOMERY The Canadian Press Mon.
 
Few homeowners helped by mortgage aid (Courier-Post)
The Obama administration's mortgage relief plan has helped only about 16 percent of borrowers who signed up since its launch last year, while hundreds of thousands of homeowners remain in limbo.
 
Bizarre title deeds in Gallatin County resemble case of alleged house theft in Polson (Missoulian)
POLSON - A couple of years ago, a Bozeman-area title company gota question about a deed of trust filed in Gallatin County by oneJustin Zachary Leuer.
 
GMAC's mortgage arm will be tough to unload (Detroit Free Press)
ResCap, the mortgage lending subsidiary of GMAC, "has been a millstone around the company's neck" in the words of GMAC Chief Executive Michael Carpenter. But disposing of ResCap without crippling GMAC's automotive lending business or adding to GMAC's $17.2-billion debt to the U.S. Treasury Department won't be easy.
 
Daredevils unleash massive avalanche in B.C.; 2 killed
Daredevils unleash massive avalanche in B.C.; 2 killed Dozens survive after snowmobiles trigger huge slide By SHANNON MONTGOMERY The Canadian Press Mon.
 
Mortgage Originations Jump in 2009; Wells is Biggest (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS , March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Residential mortgage production increased by more than a third last year, according to MortgageDaily.com's Fourth Quarter 2009 Mortgage Lender Ranking . Wells Fargo & Co. was 2009's biggest lender. The analysis of year-over-year production indicated that last year's volume increased approximately 40 percent from 2008. The findings were based on data obtained ...
 
CMU Faculty Member Discusses NCAA Gambling
Central Michigan University - The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament tips off March 18.
 
Realty Q&A: Walking away from property isn’t always so easy (Market Watch)
California is one of a dozen states where lenders are prohibited by law from filing deficiency judgments against borrowers to collect the difference between was what owed and what was collected when the asset was sold. But in other states, lenders can pursue people who walk away from their homes.
 
Commercial Mortgage Debt Rallies as TALF Ending: Credit Markets (Bloomberg)
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Commercial mortgage-backed bond returns are accelerating as the Federal Reserve ends support for the $700 billion market, showing growing confidence that loan defaults won’t derail the economic recovery.
 
Some tax issues to consider on mortgage write-downs (Washington Post)
With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued a new advisory to taxpayers who receive -- or seek to receive -- such assistance. The IRS gets involved in mortgage principal write-downs because the federal tax code generally treats any forgiveness of ...
 
Bracket Boy gives his A to Z lowdown on the NCAA Tournament
Bracket Boy is in the lab, gearing up for Bracketology 101. As a new father, Bracket Boy has to make sure BB Jr.