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Board-certified real estate lawyer Gary M. Singer writes about the housing market at SunSentinel.com/housekeys each Friday. To ask him a question, click here. Q: My husband and I cosigned a loan for our son and his now ex-wife. Our son stayed in the...

WASHINGTON — In spring 2010, agents in the Cincinnati office of the Internal Revenue Service, which handles applications for tax-exempt status, faced a surge of filings by new advocacy groups, with little guidance on how to treat them. Their...

Recreation center resolution: Councilors approved a resolution Thursday requesting that the city delay the demolition of the recreation centers at B.C. Franklin, Springdale and Ben Hill parks until Dec. 1. The resolution also asks the city to cancel its...

As the Franklin County legal community gathers today for a seminar on attracting qualified candidates for judgeships, a local Democratic leader is questioning the qualifications of the Republican governor's two latest judicial appointments. Colleen O'...

The Justice Department's decision to secretly subpoena months of reporters' phone records is drawing comparisons with Nixon-era tactics and raising anew questions about the aggression with which the Obama administration has cracked down on unauthorized...

Two key city administrators tonight will seek to influence a charter revision committee Mayor Anthony Silva launched shortly after taking office this year. City Manager Bob Deis and City Attorney John Luebberke will lead a study session, giving the City...

Kiera Wilmot is a petite 16-year-old who plays cello, wants to study robotics in college and, since last month, worries her school views her as a "terrorist." She is also the subject of an online, "justice for Kiera" campaign championed by strangers...

The Manatee County School Board meeting Monday ran past its usual two hours as board members questioned several agenda items that other times might have been passed through with little comment. About 10 items were removed from the list of actions...

One lawyer billed his client for the time they spent having sex. Another harbored a fugitive and lied to law enforcement, while a third raided a family trust she was paid to administer. Twenty Minnesota attorneys have been disbarred, suspended, publicly...

Board-certified real estate lawyer Gary M. Singer writes about the housing market at SunSentinel.com/housekeys each Friday. To ask him a question, click here. Q: I have five years left until I pay off my 30-year mortgage. I received an offer to...

A federal auditing agency has charged that former Philadelphia Housing Authority executive director Carl R. Greene falsely certified that his agency was not using taxpayer money for lobbying and has recommended that Washington take action against him...