Real estate agents: Tax credit was a boonCHEYENNE -- The first-time homeowner tax credit lifted sluggish sales last year in Wyoming, but it's still difficult to tell just how many deals were finalized because of the incentive, according to real estate agents.

Real estate firm helps HaitiA local real estate firm is another business stepping up to the plate to help victims in the Haiti earthquake. Reports from a Humanity First Canadian charity team working in Haiti indicate that the situation there cannot be understood from a distance.

Burke in tight legislative race in ChicagoPosted by Ray Long at 9:30 p.m.; last updated at 1:10 a.m. Incumbent state legislators fought to win the right to run again in a marathon campaign that will end in the November general election, but ballots were still being counted throughout the Chicago area early today in many contested races.