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Wednesday, February 18th 2009, 11:18 PM Goldfield for News Marlo Saab hasn't missed a payment yet but wonders how much longer he can manage the $3,400 in monthly mortgage payments. Related News Articles Bam unveils plan to help homeowners Analysis: Rescue finally comin' home Marlo Saab bought a $555,000, two-family home in Queens three years ago - no money down. Now, teetering on the brink of defaulting on his mortgage, Saab is looking to President Obama's plan for struggling homeowners to help him hold on to his house. "I think that his plan gives us hope," said Saab, 40, a...

SOUTH PASADENA - Massage therapist Colleen Ronnberg had just left work in her Ford Mustang to drive home for lunch. She says she turned on her signal, stopped at an intersection, looked both ways and turned onto Pasadena Avenue. But somehow her car collided with an 84-year-old woman who was riding a motorized three-wheeled scooter across Pasadena at Hibiscus Avenue. Although a sheriff's deputy later estimated that Ronnberg was driving 5 mph, the other woman was knocked out of her scooter, hit her head and died Wednesday, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. Ronnberg is very sorry, still shaken and...