Business news for Mon, 24 Dec 2007 & with word worsening. 2 news.

In a sign of the worsening local housing market, the nation's biggest homebuilder has been hit with a foreclosure suit in southwest suburban Plainfield on a large subdivision started more than three years ago. RBC Centura Bank filed suit late last month against Lennar Corp. to collect $14.7 ...

Lebanon's political crisis is worsening, undercutting a hoped-for political rapprochement between the U.S. and Syria, and could undermine the Bush administration's wider Mideast peace initiative.