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1. A new Bush administration initiative should help homeowners who're about to lose their homes. Project Lifeline will work with homeowners 90 or more days overdue¹ on their monthly mortgage payments. The plan will help make those payments more affordable² and will put the foreclosure process on hold for a month.

2. Frustrated³ fire officials are turning to a private company to help fight a stubborn blaze at a sugar refinery⁴. The building is still on fire even though it's been dowsed by thousands of gallons of water by helicopter. Authorities say they will resume searching for the two missing workers once the fire is out.

3. A landlord in Phoenix⁵ made a shocking discovery after he thought the renter had abandoned this house. Underneath⁶ piles of trash in a bathtub filled with dirt, a mummified body. The homeowner says he's received regular payments for more than ten years.

4. Ten orbiting astronauts are rolling up their sleeves for the next big job, getting the Columbus Lab up and running. After securing the lab to the international space station yesterday, astronauts were able to float inside for the first time.