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97-Year-Old Woman Fighting Eviction Dies

Marie Hatch had lived in Bay Area home for 66 years

(Newser) - An unhappy ending to the story of a 97-year-old woman who was fighting eviction in California's Bay Area: Marie Hatch has died, the law firm representing her pro bono announced late Thursday. "There is no doubt that the callous eviction of Marie Hatch has caused her death,"...

97-Year-Old Woman Sues to Keep From Being Evicted

She was told 60 years ago she could live in her cottage rent-free until she died

(Newser) - Attorneys for a 97-year-old woman being booted from her Northern California home filed suit Friday to enforce a long-ago promise by the landlord that the woman could live there until she died, the AP reports. The complaint states Marie Hatch moved into her Burlingame cottage more than 60 years ago...

Deputy Killed, 2 More Injured in Colorado Shootout

Deputies were serving an eviction notice

(Newser) - One sheriff's deputy was killed and two others were injured during a shooting in the "picturesque town" of Bailey, Colorado, on Wednesday morning, the AP reports. The suspect was also killed by deputies returning fire, the Denver Channel reports. One of the deputies who was shot has life-threatening...

Fired Live-In Nanny Refuses to Move Out

Marcella and Ralph Bracamonte say Diane Stretton stopped doing her job

(Newser) - When they first hired their live-in nanny back in March, Marcella and Ralph Bracamonte say she "was awesome." For a few weeks. But then they say Diane Stretton started refusing to work, or even leave her room except at meal times—and when they tried to fire her,...

Oprah, Stepmom in Ugly Eviction Battle

Barbara Winfrey given 60 days to vacate house

(Newser) - Oprah Winfrey is evicting her former stepmom from the $1.4 million Tennessee home Oprah owns. After an ugly divorce from Oprah's dad, Vernon Winfrey, late last year, 66-year-old Barbara Winfrey now has 60 days to vacate the estate, the Tennessean reports. Oprah originally bought the home for her...

$43 Land Sale May Force Blind Senior From Home

Dolores Pittman didn't know about transaction

(Newser) - Dolores Pittman moved into her home when she was 12 years old; after 55 years, she could soon be forced out. That's because the land beneath her northwest Indiana home was sold for $43 at a tax sale a few years ago—a sale Pittman didn't know about,...

Spain Temporarily Halts Evictions for 'Most Vulnerable'

Most vulnerable will not have to worry about losing homes for 2 years

(Newser) - Spain, where an estimated 350,000 families have lost their homes since the country's financial crisis began in 2008, will halt evictions for the most vulnerable for the next two years, the Spanish banking association AEB announced. It's not clear how the "most vulnerable" will be identified,...

German Gunman Kills Self, 4 Others
German Gunman Kills Self, 4 Others
Jul 4, 2012 2:14 PM CDT

German Gunman Kills Self, 4 Others

Took hostages as girlfriend was being evicted

(Newser) - A heavily armed man whose girlfriend was being evicted from her apartment today killed four people, including the new owner and a court bailiff who were shot execution style, before turning a shotgun on himself, German authorities said. A commando team stormed the apartment in the southern German city of...

Couple Booted From $1M House After Foreclosure

Bought Maryland home in 2006; made no payments

(Newser) - After buying their million-dollar house in 2006, a Maryland couple never made a single mortgage payment; now they've been evicted after a long struggle, reports the Washington Post . Keith and Janet Ritter made a fortune, temporarily, buying and flipping homes during the housing bubble, and they bought their $1....

Police Break Up Occupy London

20 arrested in eviction

(Newser) - Occupy London's campsite outside historic St. Paul's Cathedral has been evacuated by police, marking an end to one of the longest-running sites in the Occupy movement. Some 20 people were arrested in the dismantling of the encampment, which began in October, the AP reports. A former church leader...

Man Tries to Evict His 98-Year-Old Mom

Peter Kantorowski says she'd be better off in a home with 'people her own age'

(Newser) - Like many Americans, Mary Kantorowski has been ordered to leave her home, but it's not a bank telling her to get out—it's her own son. Kantorowski, 98, is locked in a legal battle with her eldest son, Peter, 71, who wants to sell the house she's...

Occupy Boston Holds Ground After Eviction Deadline

Police hold back as protesters party night away

(Newser) - Boston's mayor wanted Occupy protesters evicted by midnight last night, but police haven't taken action as some protesters stand their ground. Though Thomas Menino set an eviction deadline, he didn't say when the camp should be forcibly closed down, police said. "We're continuing to work...

Occupy LA Files Complaint to Stop Eviction

Protesters use 'Twilight' fans as legal precedent

(Newser) - The battle over a patch of grass outside Los Angeles City Hall is about to involve lawyers. Granted a reprieve from eviction earlier this morning, Occupy LA organizers said today they would file a federal injunction to stop the city from removing protesters. In return, the city threatened to file...

Detroit Woman, 101, Evicted From Home of 58 Years

Texana Hollis' son admits he stopped making payments

(Newser) - A particularly sad foreclosure story out of Detroit: Texana Hollis has been evicted from her home of the past 58 years ... at the age of 101. As if that's not depressing enough, Hollis and her late husband owned the home outright—but in 2003, Hollis' son persuaded her to...

Faye Dunaway's Landlord Sues to Evict Her

She may not actually live in rent-stabilized NYC apartment

(Newser) - Why is glamorous movie star Faye Dunaway paying just $1,048.72 a month to live in a third-floor one-bedroom walk-up apartment in New York City? Well, it turns out she may not be living there, though her name is on the lease—so her landlord is suing to evict...

Conservatives Put Up Fake Eviction Notices in Detroit

'It was meant to startle people,' Americans for Prosperity says

(Newser) - Americans for Prosperity hit a real sore spot with its latest flier—which was designed to look like an eviction notice and plastered to doors in the Delray neighborhood of Detroit—but the conservative group isn’t apologizing. “It was meant to startle people,” the group’s Michigan...

Calif. Lawyer: Break Back Into Your Foreclosed Homes

Radical attorney helps clients squat in bank-owned properties

(Newser) - One California attorney isn't afraid of getting on the wrong side of the law to help clients who have been evicted from their homes. Michael T. Pines of Pines & Associates advises clients to break into their foreclosed homes and live there illegally. He has personally broken into at...

Lender Admits Blindly Approving Foreclosures

Evictions suspended over huge 'robosigning' scandal

(Newser) - Foreclosure eviction proceedings around the country have ground to a halt after a mortgage company employee admitted to signing off on foreclosures without looking at them. The head of foreclosure document processing at Ally Financial, the nation's fourth-largest home lender, was required to verify information and sign documents in the...

Mosque Developer Owes Rent
Mosque Developer 
Owes Rent
Sep 15, 2010 6:30 AM CDT

Mosque Developer Owes Rent

Man behind Cordoba House evicted from Manhattan office

(Newser) - The developer behind the not-quite-at-Ground Zero mosque is being evicted from his office space over back rent. Sharif El-Gamal, who runs Soho Properties from an office at 552 Broadway in Manhattan, is said to owe $39,000 in back rent, reports the Daily News . El-Gamal, whose rental agreement expires October...

Brutal Immigrant Eviction Video Sparks French Fury

Pregnant woman, babies dragged by riot cops

(Newser) - A video showing police roughly breaking up a protest by African immigrant squatters in Paris is being slammed by human rights groups as the latest evidence of a brutal turn to the right by Nicolas Sarkozy's government. Officers can be seen dragging a screaming pregnant woman and mothers with wailing...

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