Sales of New Homes in U.S. Rose in April

Purchases of new houses rose in April for a second month as the market struggled to recover from a record low.

Sales climbed 7.3 percent to a 323,000 annual pace last month, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of economists called for sales at a 300,000 annual rate. New houses sold at a 278,000 rate in February, matching the pace in August as the lowest in data going back to 1963.

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Nonprofit thanks military brides for service with free gowns

Brides Across America, is a national charitable organization that gives dresses to women who were deployed or whose husbands were.  The nonprofit was founded by a New Hampshire bridal shop owner in 2007. Bridal salons across the country have given away more than 5,000 dresses, organization officials say.

Sandy Vital struggled Tuesday morning to decide between seven wedding gowns at an Oakbrook Terrace bridal shop — how about the off-white A-line with the halter or that number with the drop waist?

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Going Green With An Airport Hangar

Hangar 25 at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, isn’t your average airplane garage. This off-grid facility is powered entirely by solar–so much solar (over 400,000 kilowatt hours per year), that it uses electric vehicles to tow airplanes, and offers plug-in power to planes while they’re idling.

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