Not Accessing the Right URL?

Question

My objective is to access one homepage, parse it for a link, and then access that link to parse for a title. This is what I have so far:

    try {
        articleURL = LoadArticleURL(homeurl);
    } catch (Exception e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }

    try {
        articleTitle = LoadArticleTitle(articleURL);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

and

//LOADS THE URL
private String LoadArticleURL(String homeURL) throws Exception {
    try {
        reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new URL(homeURL).openStream(), "UTF-8"));
        for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
            builder.append(line.trim());
        }
    }
    finally {
        if(reader != null)
            try {
                reader.close();
            }
        catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {}
    }
    String start = "<span id=\"spot_hed\"><a href=\"";
    String end = "\">";
    String part = builder.substring(builder.indexOf(start) + start.length());
    String returnURL = part.substring(0, part.indexOf(end));
    return returnURL;
}

//LOADS THE TITLE
private String LoadArticleTitle (String articleURL) throws Exception {
    try {
        reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new URL(articleURL).openStream(), "UTF-8"));
        for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
            builder.append(line.trim());
        }
    }
    finally {
        if(reader != null)
            try {
                reader.close();
            }
        catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {}
    }
    String start = "<title>";
    String end = "</title>";
    String part = builder.substring(builder.indexOf(start) + start.length());
    String returnTitle = part.substring(0, part.indexOf(end));
    return returnTitle;
}

Is there anything obvious that you guys can see that would divert the LoadArticleTitle() method to point to the wrong URL? Also if you know of a more efficient way of doing this whole project I'm all ears.