RACINE — A $7.2 million residential-retail development is being proposed for a West Racine block that’s been vacant since mid-2006.

Day-Care Center Searches for a New Home (Washington Post)

A day-care center that has operated at the same Takoma Park address since 1979 is losing its home, in a holiday story with no real villain but plenty of victims.

Rent discounts popping up as apartment vacancies climb (Tucson Citizen)

The economic downturn and a state law against hiring illegal immigrants have dramatically increased the number of vacant apartments in Tucson.

Chilling Audiotapes Released 4 Years After Fatal Fire (NBC New York)

Two New York City firefighters died as a result of a landlord's greed and his desire to get extra rent payments from illegally subdivided apartments, prosecutors said Monday.

Prosecutor: Firefighters from LI walked into 'death trap' (Newsday)

Opening statements in trial of two tenants, landlord charged in '05 death of two firefighters Greed and a desire to get extra rent payments from illegally subdivided apartments led to the deaths of two firefighters in a January 2005 blaze at a Bronx apartment building, a prosecutor said Monday in opening arguments of the manslaughter trial of two tenants and the landlord. ...