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Owning a rental property qualifies you for some favorable tax breaks. Here’s an overview. THESE DAYS, IT SEEMS THAT everyone is chattering about buying real estate as an investment. Oftentimes the idea is to flip the property quickly — presumably making a huge chunk of change in a short amount …

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This is a partial transcript from “At Large With Geraldo Rivera,” August 27, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “At Large With Geraldo Rivera” Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET! GERALDO RIVERA, HOST: On the night before Joseph Duncan (search) bought the night vision goggles that he used to …

This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” December 19, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. MEGYN KENDALL, GUEST HOST: It has been nearly four months since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast. Huge improvements have been made since the devastating hurricane but there is still much more …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks and her husband, Gareth, are expecting a third daughter. Maguire, 38, announced her pregnancy on the group’s Web site Monday. She wrote that her 3-year-old twin daughters, Eva and Katie, “are very excited to have a new baby sister.” “Three girls, …

BEIJING – China on Thursday said it had stopped production at and exports from a company whose insecticide-tainted frozen dumplings sickened 10 people in Japan, in the latest crisis to rock China’s food export business. Officials from China’s export safety watchdog said a “speedy investigation” was being conducted into products …

HAYDEN, Idaho – A man who believed he bore the “mark of the beast” used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said. The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies arrived Saturday in …

LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. The 21-year-old actress will soon be working at a morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken driving, her attorney, Blair Berk, told a judge Thursday. She has also spent two months in rehabilitation and has done some …

WASHINGTON – When President George W. Bush began his first energized pursuit of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord just over five months ago, confidence was his constant companion. “I’m optimistic,” he said over and over about the prospects for ending one of the world’s longest-running disputes within little more than a …

MADISON, Wis. – Fire has consumed a fraternity house at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, leaving about two dozen residents without their belongings in the midst of final exams. Hundreds of students gathered early Tuesday morning as the Sigma Phi Epsilon three-story house went up in flames. A police officer on …