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The Bush proposal, to be unveiled today, offers a five-year break and would help head off recession, officials say. Seeking to gird the nation's economy against a potential tidal wave of foreclosures, the Bush administration will release a plan today that is expected to block many mortgages from adjusting to higher rates for as long as five years.

Officials say they may prosecute the sub-prime providers under civil rights and antitrust laws. Ohio's governor and attorney general said Thursday that they would issue subpoenas and take other aggressive measures against sub-prime mortgage lenders.

Officials say he took money for home repairs but disappeared without performing the work. Orange County authorities Friday were looking for dozens of people who may have been scammed by a man accused of posing as a contractor and taking homeowners' money before abandoning the jobs.

A rare tropical fungus that has infected more than 100 people since it appeared in British Columbia six years ago has crossed the border into Whatcom County, health officials say.

Dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that causes high fever, nausea and painful body aches, is reaching epidemic levels in the Caribbean and Latin America, health officials say.

Very young children simply should not take some commonly used cold and cough medicines, federal health officials say in recommending that the “consult your physician” advice to parents on the labels be dropped.

There's a recall involving boxes of frozen hamburgers. Officials say a New Jersey-based meat company is voluntarily recalling some of its hamburgers after a cluster of illnesses in the Northeast caused by E. coli bacteria.

Four years ago, Arkansas became the first state in the nation to track the number of overweight students in its schools. School officials say it has helped improve the state’s childhood obesity rate.