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Flooding leaves drivers, fans with few good options
Just a year ago, the sights, sounds, feuds and fender-rubbing racing at Lakeside Speedway were captured in a nationally televised documentary series. Today , the roaring engines and trash-talking drivers featured on “ Heartland Thunder” have been drowned out.

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BMO: O Canada! Businesses, Investors and Homeowners are Feeling Good, eh
Canadians express sense of optimism about economy – Majority of small business owners investing in their businesses – Two-thirds of Canadians confident in their ability to save for retirement – Over half optimistic about Canada’s housing market

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McCourt lawyer: Selig hasn’t acted in good faith
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig hasn’t acted in good faith by rejecting a proposed television deal involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and appeared determined to run Frank McCourt out of the sport, an attorney representing the embattled owner said Tuesday.

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How to build good credit and improve your score
740 is the new 720. If you want to refinance or buy a home or pass muster with a lender, a landlord, an insurer or even a possible employer, it will help to have a credit score of 740 or better. While the median FICO score in America is still 720, many lenders have now set the bar 20 points higher. Fannie Mae has also raised its requirements: FNMA used to request that you had a credit score of …

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Don’t worry, fans – Goodell says that the lockout is for your own good!
In the months and months we’ve had to deal with the NFL’s labor impasse, we’ve heard a lot of stuff from both sides that could best be described, as William Burroughs once did on an another subject, as “a thin tissue of horse[bleep].” Rhetoric isn’t held by one side or the other, though the owners have more practiced advocates of the gilded phrase in their cadre of attorneys and NFL commissioner …

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Good News: Muskegon Heights college graduate meets daughter’s challenge
Mother and daughter college graduates Tawanda and Monta McDaniel of Muskegon Heights have been busy this spring preparing for their open house in July.

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Two-Thirds of Americans Think Now is a Good Time to Buy a Home; Mortgage Insurance Seen as Beneficial
Americans are more optimistic about their home buying prospects than residents of other countries, with nearly two-thirds of Americans saying now is a good time to buy a home, according to the new Genworth International Mortgage Trends Report.

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President Obama praises Jeep workers, says they made him look good
Obama praises Chrysler’s workers for helping make the company successful after the automaker nearly collapsed in 2008 and 2009.

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Couple living the good life must learn to plan ahead
With almost no portable assets, Family Finance says it’s time to sell unproductive rental properties and get serious about investing

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BMO Financial Group Reports Good Second Quarter Results, Earning $800 Million of Net Income
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – May 25, 2011) – BMO Financial Group (TSX:BMO)(NYSE:BMO) and BMO Bank of Montreal -

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