Nearly 1 of 5 Florida homes are vacant

Here's a sobering statistic about the housing crash and subsequent financial mini-polcalypse. Florida, the hardest-hit state in the real estate market, has a vacancy rate in housing stock of nearly 18%, or 1.6 million homes. (Arizona is not ... continue

Financier Finn Casperson dead in apparent suicide

Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island. Casperson, 67, was discovered dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound on September ... continue