‘I’ve no idea how they got her number’: My student-loan servicer called a friend after I missed a payment. Is that legal?

Plenty of historic homes have a documented brush with greatness in their past. But few offer the impressive history of a 1913 property that was not only designed and built by a Pulitzer-winning composer—but that also served as the site where he composed some of the most important music in U.S. history. Yet that is…

Seasoned athlete Simone Biles and her husband, NFL player Jonathan Owens, are on the move once again as they head to Indiana ahead of the upcoming football season—when the safety will make his debut with the Indianapolis Colts                         Days after Biles, 29, and Owens, 30, traveled to New York City to attend the wedding…

Demetria C. Lester Demetria C. Lester is a reporter for MortgagePoint (formerly DS News and MReport) with more than 10 years of writing and editing experience. She has served as content coordinator and copy editor for the Los Angeles Daily News and the Orange County Register, in addition to 11 other Southern California publications. A…

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU26) on Thursday closed down -56 (-1.10%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU26) closed down -71 (-1.86%). Cocoa prices settled lower on Thursday amid some pre-weekend liquidation and position squaring, as US markets will be closed on Friday for a holiday.  Losses in London cocoa accelerated on Thursday after the…

A cargo plane traveling from the UAE to Pakistan went missing on Tuesday, carrying five crew members. The plane, a Boeing 737 labeled AP-BOI, disappeared from radar off the coast of Karachi, Pakistan, about 80 minutes into its two-hour flight from Sharjah, UAE. The Pakistan Airports Authority said in a series of X posts on…