2 lawyers charged in alleged scheme to steal nearly $750K in surplus foreclosure cash

Rising home prices have helped slacken the pace of foreclosure starts, according to The Warren Group, which reported Tuesday that June foreclosure petitions were down 18.3 percent compared to last year. The 5,783 foreclosure petitions filed in the first six months of 2017 is 12.6 percent lower than the number in the first half of…