Jong Min Kang’s South Korean relatives are exactly the kind of travelers American hospitality and retail businesses are yearning for during this time of financial despair – free-spending foreigners on vacation.
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NEW YORK – Ailing department store chain Mervyns, which had been operating for almost five decades, has become the latest merchant headed for extinction.
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Ian Bagley thinks he pays too many taxes, says welfare rolls need to be reduced and that the private sector usually does a better job than the public sector.
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In a lawn area next to the wreck where a Metrolink passenger train and a Union Pacific freight train collided Friday in Chatsworth, at least three dozen people were lying on tarps on the ground, many bloody and in pain.
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A 21-year-old man was fatally shot outside his home by a gunman Saturday near the intersection of 98th Street and McKinley Avenue in South Los Angeles, authorities said.
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A 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California on Saturday night, according to the
U.S. Geological Survey.
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Firefighters contained a Griffith Park blaze Saturday night that burned 50 acres of brush as arson investigators continued to look into the suspicious nature of the fires’ origins, authorities said.
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Lest anyone forget Jeff Tsao’s and Christine Chung’s wedding date, the West Covina couple stamped a logo with three interlocking eights across posters, T-shirts and party favors made specially for the affair.
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A 16-year-old Sun Valley youth who played football for John
H. Francis Polytechnic High School was fatally shot Saturday night while walking with a friend outside a fast-food restaurant, authorities said.
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A major effort to seismically retrofit hospitals has been repeatedly pushed back in recent years over concerns about costs.
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