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A man and his family have been served with an eviction notice after he legally protected his property by shooting at a would-be thief. The unnamed resident at Landera apartments in San Antonio, Texas, took action after neighbors complained about having their vehicles broken into or stolen, KENS-TV reported. Vandals attacked his apartment, shattering a window and breaking into his car. "It's just tough to swallow something that you work so hard for to get taken away from you so easily," he said. The burglars returned Tuesday, smashed his car window and ran away. The man called police and filed...

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York's top court has upheld the eviction of Bianca Jagger from a rent-stabilized Manhattan apartment. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that foreigners on tourist visas cannot claim New York digs as a "primary residence." The globe-trotting human rights activist and ex-wife of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger was evicted in December from the Upper East Side apartment she rented for 20 years.

Illinois sheriff: No foreclosure evictions on my watch * Story Highlights * Sheriff Thomas Dart says he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County * Dart: "These mortgage companies only see pieces of paper, not people." * Illinois Bankers Association opposes plan, says sheriff could be found in contempt * Cook County expected to exceed 43,000 foreclosure cases this year CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said Wednesday he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which had been on track to reach a record number of evictions, many because of mortgage foreclosures. He said many of the...

CHICAGO (AP) - Residents of foreclosed properties in Chicago and other parts of Cook County don't have to worry about deputies forcing them out. Sheriff Tom Dart says that starting Thursday his office won't take part in evictions.

I was evicted because of security clampdown for the Beijing Olympics Jane Macartney in Beijing I will miss the tree-lined alley in the heart of Beijing that has been my home for three years. But the security clampdown for the Beijing Olympics has edged into even this narrow lane. It was always clear that the Olympics would disrupt the lives of the people of Beijing, that security would be intense and the rules and regulations deeply intrusive. But it's always a surprise when this happens to you. The underlying factor in all this is fear. Fear pervades the system in...

Free Hugs star a 'security By Andrew Ramadge November 26, 2007 09:57am FREE Hugs campaigner Juan Mann has been threatened with eviction after opening his Sydney home to strangers in a bid to "prove the world isn't such a bad place". The star of the Free Hugs Campaign video, which has been played more than 20 million times on YouTube, posted an invitation to his Newtown home on the internet last month. "We still have this constant fear that strangers are dangerous and that putting your address online means people are going to come to your house and trash the...

- snip - Clementine was evicted from its church and rectory when a tax buyer, John W. Scott of Champaign, took possession after paying back property taxes and penalties totaling $8,710. The church disputes the eviction because it is a tax-exempt religious organization. - snip - Ownership of the property at 1016 Percy Ave. and 2075 N. 11th St. was transferred from the national Presbyterian Church to the local congregation in October 2003, according to the church’s pastor, Dennis Farmer. - snip - But it wasn’t until after the tax sale was approved in July that the church was able...

Published: 08/09/07, 10:11 AM More Eviction Notices in Hevron by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) On the heels of the forced eviction of two Jewish families from Hevron’s Shalhevet neighborhood – four more Hevron families living in the area have received eviction notices. In response to a petition by Peace Now, Israel’s Civil Administration has issued expulsion orders against four Jewish-held storefronts in the “triangle” marketplace area of the city, located in close proximity to the area where two Jewish families were expelled by the IDF on Tuesday. Like the wholesale market, the triangle marketplace was built by Hevron’s Arabs on top...

North Korea demands "thorough investigation" into treatment of diplomats in Finland The Associated PressPublished: February 25, 2007 HELSINKI, Finland: North Korea has demanded an investigation into the treatment by Finnish police of two of its diplomats, after they were evicted from a train because they allegedly failed to produce travel documents, officials said Sunday. Finnish police told the Foreign Ministry that the two men — en route from Moscow to Helsinki on Feb. 13 — had not produced train tickets, identification papers or any documents indicating they were diplomats, ministry spokeswoman Tiina Myllyntausta said. "North Korea has requested a thorough...

CACHAN, France -- For dozens of illegal immigrant families, a gymnasium outside Paris has become a temporary home. They sleep shoulder-to-shoulder, their dingy mattresses piled high with necessities and small treasures: cooking pans, diapers, stuffed animals. The families, mostly Africans, were evicted from France's largest squat on Aug. 17. Riot police stormed the building _ an abandoned dormitory at a prestigious university _ and forced out more than 500 people. Nearly 30 illegal immigrants were put in detention centers. About 200 went to the cramped, dank gymnasium. The mass eviction has become a symbol of France's tougher new immigration policy,...

HALTOM CITY -- Late last month, Quang Nguyen received word that she was being evicted from her government-subsidized apartment.She had been accused of hitting a maintenance man in the head as he was bent over working on a water pipe.But Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant who doesn't speak English, says it never happened.She is 101 years old.“I did not do that,” Nguyen said Thursday morning, through an interpreter. “I did not touch him. I did not do anything to him.”Sitting in a kitchen chair inside her tiny apartment, Nguyen said she is afraid of what might happen to her. She said...

We need YOU to drive your RV, pitch your tents, and take a stand against eminent domain abuse by camping out at the Halper Farm until the moment of eviction. We hope it will be like Valley Forge without the frostbite and Woodstock without the mud. We have received word that the government plans to send over a large number of well armed police officers to evict this family from what is rightfully theirs. We must draw a line in the sand and say: NO MORE! We must defend our constitutional right to own property. If this event isn't worthy...

ANTIOCH, Calif. - A man who was evicted from the house he rented for years allegedly took revenge on his landlords by dumping the home's hoarded contents _ five-gallon buckets of cookies, canned food, old batteries and puzzle pieces _ on the front lawn and in the backyard. The homeowner, Ann Stevenson, said she rented the house to Lloyd Annesley and his partner, Margaret McCoy, with a subsidized rent as a favor to the longtime family friends. After McCoy died, Annesley learned he would have to move and his relatives helped him dump the debris before they abandoned the property...

CELEB Big Brother prat George Galloway is today exposed in his revolting true colours — fawning before Saddam Hussein’s murderous son Uday. An astonishing video shown in part on the Sun TV Bulletin depicts Galloway, 51, laughing and joking with the evil psychopath during a 20-minute meeting in an Iraqi palace. The Respect party MP, who Sun readers can boot off the Channel 4 show tonight, has sickened viewers with his antics in the BB house. Galloway’s crawling around the tyrannical old Iraqi regime was even more disgusting. He famously met dictator Saddam in 1994 and told him: “Sir, allow...

George Galloway tonight became the fourth person to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house as he admitted he had failed in his aims during almost two weeks of reality TV. The Respect MP attracted 64.7% of the public vote after being nominated alongside fake celebrity Chantelle Houghton and US basketball star Dennis Rodman. As he emerged from the house, a smiling Mr Galloway was met with boos and cheers from the crowd who gathered for tonight's double eviction.

A liberal lawyer in Los Angeles is threatening to throw nearly three dozen homeless center residents back on the streets because of something he finds indefensible: The center's founder is a Republican and voted for President Bush.

Homeless victims of South Africa's great eviction (Filed: 29/09/2005) A million black workers have been thrown off white-owned farms since apartheid. David Blair reports on the threat of a Zimbabwe-style backlash Almost a million black workers have been evicted from South Africa's farms since the advent of the "rainbow" nation's new democracy, more than during the last decade of apartheid. A new survey has disclosed the huge scale of an enforced upheaval sweeping the country, with 942,303 farm workers and dependants evicted in the 10 years after the transition to black rule in 1994. In the previous decade, when apartheid...

Threatened with eviction at gunpoint, the Big Easy holdouts are now hailed as heroes By Toby Harnden in New Orleans (Filed: 18/09/2005)A Starving Pit Bull Attacks A Bull Beside The New Orleans Bayou Just days since they were being urged, sometimes at gunpoint, to leave their homes, the hardy band of residents who sat tight in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are now being encouraged to stay put and help to restart the city. In a remarkable U-turn, the authorities - who had previously reviled, goaded and even threatened force against the few hundred remaining "holdouts" - are hailing them...

Riverside County is telling a man in Thousand Palms he has to leave his home, which happens to be underground. It may not look like much, but for Joel Hinz, it's home. And it is an extraordinary one at that. Tired of feeling homeless, Joel decided to build his own and he went underground to do it. This 250 square foot desert dwelling has stairs, shelves, support beams. It even has a patio. “Everybody's impressed when they come here,” Hinz told us. “It just evolved over time I just thought no big thing, if anything of it.” Joel was working...

I think you stupud amerikans deserved this for a long time. Ever since you settled down in other peoples property you have been commiting ethnic cleansing and genocide against people just because they weren't white or as savy as you are. What ever to private property rights for the original inhabitants of the land? In Sweeden we don't do things like that. You forced them out at gunpoint and now you whine about Walmart taking away your homes for it's own benefit the same way. I hope you lose your land and live in the streets and die you fat...