Crack heads and homeless find shelter in the rundown houses.

For every five houses on the demolition list there will be 10 more to inspect.

We're not seeing as many starter houses in the low to mid-$200,000s anymore, which has been the trend for the last year or so. Developers are seeing these big lots and building larger, newer, more expensive homes with three-car garages.

There were several major corporate deals done over the last quarter - those should generate activity for buyout houses.

The people I've talked to say the situation in the coal camps is getting worse. Blasts are shaking their houses, and dust and mud covers the roads and everything. There is nothing preventative about the new laws they passed. It was just an after-the-fact thing. It does nothing to protect the people.

She taught in the little one-room school houses for many years. She finished her career in the city school system.