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U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Jorge S., an East Bay grocery store clerk, worries about his family's future if the Bush administration follows through with its declaration this month to crack down on employers who fail to verify the legal status of their workers. "Everyone at the st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 8:04pm neoform

Yahoo News -- On Friday and Saturday nights, the line to get a bottle of wine at the liquor store in this southern Utah town can stretch out the back door. The storage area of the town's lone liquor store is often stacked so high and so wide with cases of alcohol it's.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 28, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A man whose lawyers claimed he was mentally disabled has been executed for killing a convenience store owner in Virginia. Kevin Green was pronounced dead Tuesday at 10:05 p.m. EDT in the first execution in Virginia in nearly two years. The 31-year-old'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 11, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- The owner of a San Leandro auto supply business was arrested at his store today on suspicion of trying to purchase stolen catalytic converters from undercover police officers, authorities said. Police said Christopher Panarra's willingness to buy the c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 9, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The big storm Friday knocked out power to Cole Hardware, but a battery backup kept the cash registers online long enough for the generator to take over, allowing the store to stay open, despite an eight-hour blackout, and sell flashlights, empty sandbags.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Just steps from where nine people were shot last year during San Francisco's Halloween street party, a large store filled with costumes, wigs and other spooky merchandise has opened with a sign in the window declaring the spot "Halloween Headquarters.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 18, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

SF Gate -- Irene Banks, who was shopping at the Barneys New York outlet in Napa last weekend, is no stranger to the mystique of this store, whose small selection of fall items she was perusing. Whenever she visits Manhattan, she faithfully visits the Madison Avenue.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- A robber's clumsy pursuit of cash left him staring at the barrel of his own shotgun after he set it on the convenience store counter and the clerk snatched it up, officials said. A surveillance video captured the man in sunglasses and a hooded sweat sh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 8:30pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Two black shoppers have sued Toys "R" Us saying they were subjected to racial discrimination and unjustified scrutiny at a store in New York. Patricia Drayton and Valerie Kirk said in the lawsuit that the store in The Bronx, a borough of New York City,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 8:04am neoform

CNN -- Firefighters from far afield descended on Charleston to attend a memorial service Friday for nine of their own killed in a furniture store blaze. As a gesture of solidarity, medics from the Framingham, Massachusetts, Fire Department hung their departme.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 6:39pm neoform

CNN -- One of the men coached football when he wasn't fighting fires. One cut hair at a barbershop, and another was known for quoting the Bible. They called each other nicknames like "Squirrel" and "Lightning." On Tuesday, this city on the South Carolina coas.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 4:28pm neoform

BBC News -- A blaze has swept through a furniture store and a warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters, officials say. They died after the store's roof collapsed on them. The mayor said it was "a tragedy of immense proportions". The fi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 9:00pm neoform

CNN -- A Kansas man appeared before a judge Thursday on charges he abducted a teenager from an Overland Park, Kansas, store parking lot and killed her. Edwin Roy Hall, 26, of Olathe, Kansas, appeared via closed-circuit television from the New Century Adult De.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- A man seen on surveillance video leaving a store shortly before a teenager was abducted in the parking lot has been arrested, hours after her body was found in a park, authorities said. Edwin Hall, 26, was expected to be charged Thursday morning with p.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 2:35am neoform

Information Week -- A Michigan cop, who'd obviously been hit over the head with a billy club one time too many, levied criminal charges against a man who used an open, public Wi-Fi network outside the cafe that was running it. The dastardly computer criminal, Sam Peterson.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

FOX News -- It all began on a frigid January day with 10 bearded Muslim men huddled in the parking lot of a Circuit City debating who would go inside to have a copy made of a tape showing them firing guns and praising jihad. Eventually, the group — who'd been se.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 10:43am neoform

Yahoo News -- U.S. authorities charged a former employee of the national tax-collection agency with fraud Thursday, accusing him of stealing $330,000 in goods from stores and then returning them for store credit. Prosecutors said Robert Dooley, a former Internal Rev.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 12:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- After four suspects in a jewelry store robbery were arrested, police surmised one of the men may have swallowed a missing two-carat diamond ring worth $30,000. The theory proved correct, police said, when the ring was found Wednesday in the toilet inside.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Arkon Beacon Journal -- Georgette Prince was making a quick run to the store last Thursday morning for orange soda and lottery tickets -- a venture that should have been an uneventful five-minute trip but became a terrifying 20-minute ordeal. The unsuspecting Prince was caugh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 12:41pm mrmdc

New York Times -- When they charged 49 convenience store clerks and owners in rural northwest Georgia with selling materials used to make methamphetamine, federal prosecutors declared that they had conclusive evidence. Hidden microphones and cameras, they said, had caught.. Read More