(CBS) As the housing market continues to cool, higher interest rates have increased the mortgage payments for homeowners who have adjustable rate loans, or ARMs, causing the number of them defaulting on their mortgages in default to rise. On The ... [full story]

State Dept. Awards $164M Passport Deal to Stanley WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. State Department has awarded a contract worth up to $164 million for passport printing services to Stanley Inc., a provider of information technology consulting services. The pact, which ... [full story]

State Insurance Commissioner Candidate Steve Poizner, Lieutenant Governor Candidate Tom McClintock and State Senator George Runner Also Offer Insight About Health Care Reform at 10th Annual Health Care Symposium LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 26, 2006 -- California ... [full story]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Many may see investing in post-civil war Liberia as a high risk investment to be avoided, but not Henrique Caine, a Liberian national of the Washington, DC area who sees it as a risk worth ... [full story]

PANAMA CITY · On the day after their first televised debate, Democrat Jim Davis and Republican Charlie Crist worked to fire up hard-core political activists on opposite ends of the state amid growing signs of a tightening and increasingly hostile ... [full story]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- AARP welcomes Patricia Hernandez as its official 37 millionth member. As a baby boomer, Ms. Hernandez is part of a demographic shift in AARP's membership. The wave of aging baby boomers who are joining ... [full story]

America's Health Insurance Plans on Wednesday said it will announce a plan next month to provide health care coverage to all uninsured U.S. residents, CQ Today reports. According to AHIP President and CEO Karen Ignagni, the plan -- expected to ... [full story]

LANCASTER, Pa., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EIHI - News; EIHI) announced today that subsidiary Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company (ELH) will move its offices this weekend to EIHI's headquarters.  At 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on ... [full story]