| UPDATE: Realty Q&A: A 6-step Plan For Boosting Credit Score To Buy Home
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- Question: I need some assistance in cleaning up my very poor credit score of 638 from Trans Union and 559 from Equifax. It's not the result of any credit cards but poor choices (which I admit) and a divorce with little to no child support of three girls. I'm in my mid-forties and all three girls are over the age of 18. My question is how do I increase my FICO score within the next 6-10 months and is there a reputable agency that can work on my behalf? I would like to purchase a home early next year. I know there's a lot of work that needs to be done and would greatly appreciate any assistance you or an agency can provide. Answer: I turned to attorney Edward Jamison, who operates a credit-repair law firm in Los Angeles, for help with this one because you did not mention any specific problems.
Gov. To Attend Fairport Service
Governor Eliot Spitzer will be in attendance tonight at the "Celebration of Life" service the Fairport Central School District's holding for five recent graduates killed in a June car crash. It's not known yet if the governor will address the thousands expected to attend the service scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Fairport High School football field. The teenagers died when their car crashed into a tractor trailer rig in East Bloomfield June 26. After weeks of funerals and memorial services, the district is holding a 90 minute service that will include speeches from students, family members and Fairport faculty and staff. R News will carry the "Celebration of Life" live beginning at 7 p.m. jaja
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Suspect in retired L.A. officer's slaying sought
DIAMOND BAR - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday asked for the public's help in the killing of a retired LAPD officer. Ruben Whittington, 61, of Diamond Bar was shot Sunday on Lemon Avenue in Walnut while he waited for a tow truck to help with a flat tire, authorities said. The shooting may have been during a robbery. Officials are looking for anybody who may have seen a suspicious vehicle or person near 316 S. Lemon Ave., where Whittington was shot about 11:30 p.m., sheriff's Capt. Jim Curtis said. "The senseless murder of a retired 21-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department ... it's just very difficult for us," Sheriff Lee Baca said. "Sgt. Whittington's unsolved murder is one that strikes us right at the core." A proposal to offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooter is expected to be on the Walnut City Council's next agenda, Baca said.
Business calendar
Here are some of the business-related activities coming up in the tri-county area. Today-Friday: Leaders in the field of information technology -- Mike Lazaridis, president and CEO of Research-in-Motion; Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems Inc.; and Douglas Merrill, vice president of engineering and CIO of Google -- will address the 2007 Air Force Information Technology Conference, which will be today through Friday at Auburn Montgomery. The government keynote speakers are Lt. Gen. Charles L. Johnson II, commander of the Electronic Systems Center; Lt. Gen. Charles Croom, director of Defense Information Systems Agency; and Lt. Gen. Michael Peterson, chief of Warfighting Integration and Air Force chief information officer. The theme of the conference will be "Global Effects through Integrated Information." Hosted by the 754th Electronic Systems Group in conjunction with the city of Montgomery, AFITC is expected to include 5,000 to 6,000 attendees from a wide range of organizations.
Loan Probe Targets Athletic Depts.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will next turn the focus of his national student loan investigation from the administration office to the athletic department. Cuomo has served nearly 40 universities with subpoenas and requests for documents. Cuomo wants information about deals between athletic departments and student financial services, which operate as university financial services. Cuomo is looking into whether college athletic departments steered student athletes to education lenders in exchange for kickbacks. The attorney general says the probe includes looking at how team names, mascots and colors were used to suggest the lending company was the college's preferred lender. ajlja New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
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Bush Rejects Gas Tax To Fund Bridge Repair, Decries Hill Spending
President Bush yesterday rejected a gasoline tax increase to repair thousands of structurally deficient bridges such as the one that collapsed in Minneapolis, pointing the finger instead at Congress for what he called misguided spending policies that have neglected high priorities in favor of pork politics. The president's broadside triggered a furious reaction from congressional Democrats, who said he is in no position to lecture anyone on priorities. The heated exchange suggested the issue of infrastructure safety, dramatized as cars plunged into the Mississippi River last week, has become one more front in a broader battle between the White House and Congress over national goals. .
How Are NY's Bridges?
It was back in 1987 that a bridge collapsed and claimed 10 lives in New York State. The disaster at the Schoharie Bridge on the State Thruway led to a round of inspections focused on bridge safety. Accidents, like the one in Minneapolis, leave many wondering whether New York State learned its lesson 20 years ago. We hardly notice in our daily rush to work and home and stops along the way. We take the safety of our highway system for ranted. We believe that advances in technology have made the network of bridges and overpasses that we rely on, safe. In the past, we had failures due to lack of knowledge. Now, we're having failures because of a lack of maintenance," Riyad Aboutaha of Syracuse University's School of Engineering said. Aboutaha is training a new generation of civil engineers at Syracuse University's School of Engineering.
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