J. P. King Auction Company, the nation’s leading auction marketing firm specializing in high-value properties, is selling seven Soaring Eagle Lodge condominiums at absolute auction, to the highest bidder in Snowshoe, West Virginia on Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 1 p.m.
“The area features more than 60 trails and is considered one of the East’s largest [...]

NASA awarded United Space Alliance the Integrated Mission Operations Contract (IMOC) today, signaling a continuing partnership between the agency and the space operations company.
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The sole-sourced contract will support NASA Johnson Space Center with flight operations work for the Constellation and International Space Station programs. The contract [...]

This week former U.S. Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell (Ret.) told a ballroom-sized crowd assembled for the annual Turnaround Management Association’s (TMA) conference in a post- Katrina New Orleans his axiom, “If you have 40 to 70 percent of the information, you probably have what you need. Take a chance, do something. Go [...]

Edward J. (Ted) Lawson, CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of 21st Century Holding Company,, an insurance holding company, today commented on Company guidance.
Mr. Lawson said, “Due to a series of accounting issues, I am hereby removing previously issued guidance for calendar year 2006. I am, however, hereby reiterating guidance for calendar year 2007 [...]

The newest multibillion-dollar wave of construction on the northern Gulf Coast is along the piney banks of a manmade ditch, protected from the twin threats of storms and high land prices.
With beachfront acreage in ever-shrinking supply and much of the coast still recovering from hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, developers are putting up luxury condominium towers, [...]

Family and friends are mourning the loss of Abb Allen Jeffcoat III, a well-known Columbia real estate agent who died Thursday at Duke University Hospital of complications from cystic fibrosis. He was 37.
Jeffcoat, who worked at Russell & Jeffcoat Realtors Inc., was remembered as a caring, gentle man who always put others first.
The son of [...]

Following today’s severe weather in Florida and Alabama, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., reminds customers that its Catastrophe Claims team is ready to move quickly into storm stricken areas to begin processing claims, if necessary. The company’s claims representatives are also prepared to handle additional customer calls resulting from today’s storm. Customers can report [...]

Edward J. (Ted) Lawson, CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of 21st Century Holding Company, an insurance holding company, today said, “We currently have no claims reported from the tornados that hit the central part of Florida today and expect very few, if any, to be reported in the forthcoming days. The amount of [...]

Atlanta based AssuranceAmerica Corporation today announced its retail agency subsidiary, TrustWay Insurance Agencies, acquired 80% of Frontline Insurance Agencies of Troy, Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama. Frontline is an independent insurance agency with approximately $4 million of premium volume. Frontline primarily writes non-standard auto insurance, but also writes on behalf of insurance carriers that provide [...]

On January 10, 2007, the Board of Directors of Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation declared its quarterly dividend on the Company’s Common Stock of $0.15 per share payable March 15, 2007 to shareholders of record February 15, 2007. The Company’s annual dividend rate on its Common Stock is $0.60 per share.
Also on January 10, [...]

Colonial Properties Trust , a real estate investment trust that owns a portfolio of multifamily, office and retail properties, announced today the sale of fifteen multifamily communities in which it has an approximate 23 percent interest through a partnership with DRA Advisors, LLC. The total sales price was $468.0 million and Colonial Properties’ portion of [...]

Brian Rogers and other members of his church group basked in their perfect timing — a rare snowfall combined with a nonexistent midweek crowd that turned Winterplace Ski Resort into their personal playground.
The signs of a dismal season were sprinkled throughout this southern West Virginia resort. Plenty of parking, plenty of elbow room on the [...]