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India's West Bengal state ordered a probe led by a judge into the nation's worst fire accident in seven years that killed at least 91 people.

Microsoft is trying to lift its stock price with its largest dividend increase since it started making the quarterly payments seven years ago.

Lee B. Farkas, guilty in a $2.9 billion mortgage lending scandal, had this to say about his fraudulent operations: “It happens all the time.”

Taking aim at homeowners who are able to pay their mortgage but decide it's not worth it, Fannie Mae plans to go after them in court and to limit their access to home loans for seven years.

The estate of Michael Jackson has landed the late King of Pop the biggest recording deal in history: a $200 million guaranteed contract with Sony Music Entertainment for 10 projects over seven years, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Writer Amanda Bennett recounts her late husband's battle with cancer, which cost $618,616 over seven years. The case offers a window into the debate over health care.

But this isn't just due to the bailouts. As American Banking News points out, these banks have been at the bottom of the survey for the past seven years.

An ex-Morgan Stanley banker was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison in Hong Kong's biggest insider trading case.

Federal banking officials worried about rising bank failures will require new banks to meet stricter regulatory standards for seven years rather than the previous three-year requirement.

A former Dairylea administrator has admitted stealing nearly $600,000 from the upstate New York milk cooperative over seven years.