Arson to be ruled out in group home blaze
Springfield News-Leader - Donors can go to the blood collection agency of their choice. - "Pray for these patients," Larson said. - Support the relief efforts that likely will be announced later for the individuals and their families, Larson added, as well as future fundraising

One of top US collection agencies to open new facility next month
Daily Territorial - For those keeping score at home, two more call centers announced last week they’re bringing another 850 jobs to Tucson. That brings the total of new call center jobs announced in the last month to 2,850. The latest, announced Sept. 27, is United

New Push to Ease Debt
Inside Higher Ed - And the Department of Education, along with their cannibal collection agencies, wants my blood. I hold three degrees in English. While I was in school, I had no choice but to depend on student loans to live. I was over 40, supporting a young child

Apollo Enterprise Solutions Exceeds $2 Million-a-Day in Online
TMCnet - Apollo Enterprise Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Irvine, California, provides enterprise-class web-hosted solutions for a variety of industries involved in receivables management and debt collections. At the heart of Apollo's Intelligent Debt

NFAN Launches Self-Help Website for Debtors
24-7PressRelease.com - HelpForDebtors.com includes information on arbitration, wage garnishment, statues of limitations and the importance of the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), a federal law designed to protect consumers against abusive and deceptive debt

Making Unreasonable Legal Demands Doesn't Represent A Digital Music
Tech Dirt - This should be proportional, based on a percentage of revenue -- and distributed through the collection agencies, as is the case with commercial radio. Suing MySpace and everybody else one at a time is entirely

Ark. Supreme Court hears payday-lending arguments
Arkansas News Bureau - Sims ruled the act was constitutional and that the State Board of Collection Agencies, which licenses and regulates the lenders, was not subject to a claim for illegal exaction for its licensing fees. Sims said money the board collects is not from

Not all bad
Nashville Business Journal - Because collection agencies get paid based on what they collect, and the additional work his firm is seeing is largely due to last year's TennCare cuts and a continued increase in immigrant and migrant worker populations, it's not a one-to-one

DAVID MYERS: Unsettled medical bills can appear on your credit report
Detroit Free Press - Dear David: My credit is pretty good, except for an account of mine that was sent to a collection agency two years ago by a dentist I refused to pay after a botched oral surgery. How will this collection account affect my credit, especially now that

Get the FACTs, Jack: Part 2
Motley Fool - One way that many identity-theft victims first find out about a fraudulent debt is when they get a message from a collection agency. FACT requires that a collection agency give you any information it has about the fraudulent debt, including account

Devastating Affect of Cancer Highlighted in New Study of People with
Senior Journal - consequences of a cancer diagnosis, but even those with consistent coverage faced difficulties – one in five used up all or most of their savings, one in 10 borrowed money from relatives and 9% were contacted by a collection agency.

The president of a Denver collection agency found in a home in an upscale neighborhood on Seventh Avenue Parkway died of bullet wounds, his partners and neighbors said Tuesday.