All posts tagged "georgia"

  • DEM 2016 Clinton
    Clinton wins Georgia, Virginia; Sanders wins Vermont

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton claimed Super Tuesday victories in the Georgia and Virginia Democratic primaries, while rival Bernie Sanders carried his home state of Vermont. Republican races in those states were too close to call as...

    • Posted March 1, 2016
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  • Security footage of the shooting at the Georgia liquor store on May 31, 2015. (Korea Times file)
    2 dead in Korean American-owned liquor store shooting

    A 36-year-old man shot and killed two people inside a Georgia liquor store Sunday. One of his victims was the Korean American owner of the establishment in Rockdale County, Ga. An argument broke out over an unpaid bill...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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  • st0504-01-1
    Louder voices against common core

    Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Georgia — three states that received failing grades by Harvard’s Director of the Program on Educational Policy and Governance Paul Peterson in his “State Proficiency Standards Strength” evaluation — are forced by Common Core...

    • Posted May 4, 2015
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  • A Korean woman killed, a man injured in boat crash in Georgia

    GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a woman killed and a man injured in a boat crash on Lake Lanier are believed to be a husband and wife from Buford. Georgia Department of Natural Resources officials identified...

    • Posted March 18, 2015
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  • prostitition
    Four Korean women sentenced in Georgia massage parlor prostitution

    Four Korean women received court sentences Tuesday for their participation in a brothel disguised as a massage parlor in Macon, Georgia. The business, opened by 51-year-old Chae Hyeon-joo in 2008 as Soft Hands Massage & Spa, was...

    • Posted July 18, 2014
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  • The Korean language is third in Georgia and Virginia. (Courtesy of Slate)
    Korean the third most spoken language in Georgia, Virginia

    Korean is the third most spoken language after English and Spanish in Georgia and Virginia. Slate’s map of the United States illustrates each of the 50 states’ third-most prevalent languages based on the Census Bureau’s American Community...

    • Posted May 16, 2014
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  • Hankook Tire to Set Up Plant in Tennessee

    (Yonhap) Hankook Tire Co., the world’s seventh-largest tire maker by sales, has decided to set up a plant in the state of Tennessee, a senior U.S. auto industry official said Wednesday. Senior officials of the South Korean...

    • Posted October 10, 2013
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