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As Montanans stay at home, many are looking to pets for comfort and companionship. Fostering and adoptions are up and so are online training…

The Eastport, Maine, Sarah Graves ladles up for her readers in her Home Repair Is Homicide series is picturesque, but not picture-perfect. In fact, it's a lot like the small town the author calls home — give or take a few dead bodies.

Financial markets around the world reacted favorably to the U.S. government's plan to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In the United States, the move sent interest rates down, raising hopes in the real estate industry that prospective buyers may be ready to enter the housing market.

Heavy rains have swamped many parts of New England. Downtown Peabody, Mass., is flooded; business owners can't get in to assess the damage, and dozens of residents have been evacuated to the local high school. The area's flooding is the worst since the 1930s.

Myra Engrum works, cares for her son, has friends and is active in church. She's done things "right." But for the second time in 11 years, she's picking up the pieces of her storm-ravaged life.

When an aspiring writer agrees to look after his old friend's flat, enduring an absent homeowner's passive-aggressive notes isn't the worst that will happen. In his first novel, Care of Wooden Floors, Will Wiles follows a housesitting job gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Assuming all goes as planned, at least 49 states will have signed on to a broad settlement between the banks and state attorneys general over robo-signing. Troubled homeowners may see some benefit, the banks will get some immunity provisions and the Obama administration is hoping to get some credit for negotiating the deal.

The campaign to find permanent homes for 100,000 homeless people, including the chronically homeless, was started four years ago. Now, the group behind the push says it has reached its goal.

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates this week for the first time since it started raising them in response to inflation. One group in particular is watching: Homeowners.

Those migrants who didn't join the caravan say they hope to catch up or start a new one. They say poverty and violence at home leave them no other option.