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Mississippi City Officials Target Blighted Properties

The city of Biloxi, Miss., starts this week to work with commercial property owners to clean up neglected buildings. Six years after Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi officials are ready to prod commercial property owners into doing something with their neglected buildings. …

Lightning Strikes Damage Properties in Maryland

Officials say a fast-moving storm produced a number of lightning strikes in southern Anne Arundel County that damaged properties. Lt. Frank Fennell, a county fire department spokesman, says the most extensive damage Monday occurred at a waterfront property in Edgewater. …

Iowa City Flood-Damaged Property Buyouts Top 1,000

The city of Cedar Rapids has purchased over 1,000 properties that were damaged during the flooding of 2008. The city announced Monday that it had acquired 1,001 flood-damaged properties through the Voluntary Property Acquisition Program. After the 2008 floods, the …