The National Association of Realtors says pending U.S. home sales rose from February to March as buyers took advantage of deeply discounted prices and low interest rates.

The first Broadway revival of “Bye Bye Birdie” has found a home.

The vast majority of Iraqis who fled their country have no plans to return even though violence is way down, many hoping instead to resettle in the West.

Police say a man has surrendered after releasing his estranged wife whom he held at gunpoint for more than five hours at a Toledo retirement community.

Police say a man has released his estranged wife after holding her at gunpoint for more than five hours at a Toledo retirement community.

Police say there’s no danger to the residents of a Toledo retirement community where a man is holding his estranged wife at gunpoint.

A man was holding his estranged wife at gunpoint at a retirement community, about a month after he held police at bay for three hours during a domestic violence call at his home, Toledo police said Tuesday.

Toledo police say a man is holding his estranged wife at gunpoint at a suburban retirement community.

The former head of American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. has agreed to pay nearly $2.5 million to settle federal civil charges of accounting fraud and concealing the company’s deteriorating finances as the subprime mortgage crisis hit in 2007.

A widely watched housing index shows home prices dropped in February, but for the first time in 16 months the decline was not a record.