Business

Too little, too late

• LOS ANGELES - More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values, a research company said Tuesday.
  
  
  
  Nationwide, 243,353 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in April, up 65 percent from 147,708 in the same month last year and up 4 percent since March, RealtyTrac Inc. said.

Cherokee and State

‘Curious’ controversy

• MARIETTA - The publisher of the popular children book's series "Curious George" is considering legal action against a Georgia bar owner for selling T-shirts that link Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to the inquisitive monkey.
  
  
  
  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is upset with Mike Norman, owner of a Marietta bar, for selling the shirts which show Curious George peeling a banana with "Obama in '08" printed beneath the image.

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