The government is taking a closer look at ideas aimed at preventing people from ending up in huge amounts of debt when they need to buy a car. Driving Photo: 123RF Representatives from across the finance industry met at a forum this week to discuss ways to improve access to safe credit for vulnerable consumers.…
When letters from debt collection agencies began landing in Con Mancuso’s letterbox, he assumed it was junk mail. He had no idea that he’d already been declared bankrupt by a judge in the then-Federal Magistrates Court, with more than a million dollars of unpaid debts against his and his wife’s name debts that didn’t…
A central Illinois man has been found guilty of killing his sister-in-law and burying her body in a shallow grave. A Putnam County jury on Friday found Cliff Andersen guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of 63-year-old Deborah Dewey. The 68-year-old Anderson faces from 20 years to life without parole when he…
THE rate of personal insolvency in Swindon rose by nearly 20 per cent in 2017. In 2016 19.8 adults per 10,000 in the town were declared insolvent, according to Insolvency Service figures. But by 2017 that had risen to 24.6 per 10,000, an increase of 19.5 per cent. In Swindon there were 419 new insolvency…
HENNEPIN, Ill. (AP) A northern Illinois man has been found guilty of killing his sister-in-law and burying her body in a shallow grave. A Putnam County jury on Friday found Cliff Andersen guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of 63-year-old Deborah Dewey. The 68-year-old Anderson faces from 20 years to…
HENNEPIN, Ill. — A northern Illinois man has been found guilty of killing his sister-in-law and burying her body in a shallow grave. A Putnam County jury on Friday found Cliff Andersen guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of 63-year-old Deborah Dewey. The 68-year-old Anderson faces from 20 years to…
THE rate of personal insolvency in Swindon rose by nearly 20 per cent in 2017. In 2016 19.8 adults per 10,000 in the town were declared insolvent, according to Insolvency Service figures. But by 2017 that had risen to 24.6 per 10,000, an increase of 19.5 per cent. In Swindon there were 419 new insolvency…
Staff photo by E.J. Harris The Lost Valley Dairy outside of Boardman has been ordered to sell their cattle to pay off debtors. Buy this photo SALEM (AP) The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a judge to appoint a federal trustee to take over an embattled Oregon mega-dairy, citing the owners drug…
SALEM, Ore. The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a judge to appoint a federal trustee to take over an embattled Oregon mega-dairy, citing the owners drug use, gambling, out-of-control spending and pending criminal charges. Lost Valley Farm, located near Boardman, supplies milk to the Tillamook County Creamery Association, which produces Tillamook Cheese, the Statesman…
IN SUNNY south Wales, Hayley is squeezing in a chat on the phone while caring for her five children after school. Her eldest two are 19 and 20; both have special needs and live at home. Their father is an occasional figure in their lives. After the couple separated, Hayley got a large mortgage to…