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Bridgeport (WTNH) _ Struggling homeowners looking for help because of foreclosure have a new savior to turn to. Most people pray their homes will be safe from foreclosure and now there's help in a program called Homes Saved by Faith. "We have to intervene to save people from foreclosure," said Rev. McKlusker of the Shiloh Baptist Church. More than 350 churches in Connecticut are partnering with banks and housing groups so they can stop the tidal wave of foreclosures. There are have been about 14,000 in Connecticut, with the majority of those in Bridgeport. "We need to get banks to...

Monday evening, I had reached a low point after several rejection letters and no feedback on my follow-ups. In the last 6 weeks, I sent 166 resumes and followed-up in person or on the phone about 3 times as much. I was very depressed. Although Agnostic, I said a prayer to God, hoping that if he was out there, he would hear me. Tuesday morning, I woke early. An incredible calm and total peace was instilled in me. I can't explain it. I just knew everything was going to be alright. I told my wife that day before I went...

Amber Alert Issued for 6 Year Old Cape Coral Florida GirlPosted: Saturday 11/01/03 9:27 PM CST The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued the Amber Alert after the girl was abducted in Cape Coral on Saturday morning. Catherine Barnes The girl was abducted in Cape Coral,FL on Saturday November 1. She is a black female, 6 yrs., 3' 06", 89 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing turquoise shorts and shirt. Police are looking for Franklin Smiley, black male, 32 yrs., 5' 7", 160 pounds, black hair, brown eyes. The vehicle is a 2004...

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) - The nine coal miners who were rescued from a cramped, flooded shaft Sunday decided early in their 77-hour ordeal that they would "live or die as a group," tying themselves together so all their bodies would be found if they drowned. They also scrawled last messages to loved ones as they huddled together to keep warm 240 feet below the Earth's surface. "I didn't think I was going to see my wife and kids again," a teary-eyed Blaine Mayhugh told reporters, hours after being pulled out of the Quecreek Mine in western Pennsylvania. He, his father-in-law...