Worried that its rising wages will frighten key mainland U.S. companies away, Puerto Rico is urging investors to cut costs by moving parts of their operations to neighboring Caribbean nations.
The Supreme Court sidestepped a ruling Monday on whether the Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II are deserving of compensation, concluding instead that the case must be heard first by a lower federal court.
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Residents of the two neighborhoods closest to the Pacific Amphitheatre soon will receive a letter describing the city's progress in its efforts to reduce noise from the outdoor auditorium.
The Buffalo Bills sent wide receiver Preston Dennard, a former Ram, to the Green Bay Packers Tuesday and acquired defensive end Don Smith from the Atlanta Falcons in separate trades as NFL teams cut down to the 60-player limit.
In the wake of Placentia voters' overwhelming rejection of a 2% utility users tax increase that has been in effect since April 1, a majority of the City Council said Wednesday it will vote to rescind the tax hike.
The Supreme Court refused Monday to block the deportation of Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk, a 65-year-old retired auto worker alleged to be "Ivan the Terrible," an executioner at a camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews were put to death.
A Massachusetts man charged by a federal grand jury with stealing sophisticated U.S. aircraft parts for shipment to the Iranian air force pleaded guilty Tuesday, prosecutors said.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency was given permission Thursday to dump treated ground water from the Stringfellow acid pits into Orange County's sewer system after test samples showed only minute traces of heavy metals, authorities said.
Assembly Democrats on Friday backed off from their attempt to ram through the Legislature a bill to create a new agency to clean up toxic waste.
The ambiguous nature of secret intelligence is often not fully appreciated, especially by top Central Intelligence Agency executives who boast that they are privy to the intentions of the Kremlin through sources that report to them directly from its inner sanctum, the KGB.
When some Oxford students heard that Rudyard Kipling, author of "The Jungle Book" and "Kim," earned 10 shillings per word, they sent him 10 shillings and asked for one of his very best words.
The City Council said goodby to James H.
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