All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    LAPD traffic ticket quota system costs city another $1M

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to a former Westside motorcycle officer who said he was retaliated against by the Los Angeles Police Department for not participating in an illegal...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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  • 7-Eleven store clerk M. Faroqui celebrates with customers after learning the store sold a winning Powerball ticket on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 in Chino Hills, Calif. One winning ticket was sold at the store located in suburban Los Angeles said Alex Traverso, a spokesman for California lottery. The identity of the winner is not yet known. (Will Lester/The Sun via AP)
    $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot also created 81 millionaires

    (AP) — Sure, the three winners splitting the record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot are getting a lot of attention. But more than 26 million tickets won prizes, many of them not too shabby. Some in each of...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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  • N. Korea slams World Economic Forum for revoking invitation

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday criticized organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos for revoking an invitation to its delegation in the wake of a nuclear test. The WEF sent an invitation...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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    Liam Neeson visits MacArthur memorial

    By The Korea Times Seoul staff Liam Neeson, who is in Seoul for a two-week movie shoot, on Thursday visited Incheon Freedom Park’s statue of the American Gen. Douglas MacArthur, whom he plays in the film. Neeson...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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    Obama says Michelle Obama will not run for president

    BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — It used to be that death and taxes were the only certain things in life, but for President Barack Obama there is a third: Michelle Obama will not run for president. With...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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  • 7-Eleven store clerk M. Faroqui celebrates with customers after learning the store sold a winning Powerball ticket on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 in Chino Hills, Calif. One winning ticket was sold at the store located in suburban Los Angeles said Alex Traverso, a spokesman for California lottery. The identity of the winner is not yet known. (Will Lester/The Sun via AP)
    $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot split 3 ways, in CA, FL & TN

    MUNFORD, Tenn. (AP) — An eye-popping, unprecedented $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot that became a national fascination will be split three ways, by mystery winners in Florida, Tennessee and California. The lucky trio did not immediately identify themselves...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je)
    S. Korea faces dilemma of whether to bring back US nuclear weapons: Expert

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — South Korea will face a strategic choice of whether it should seek to bring U.S. nuclear weapons back into the country, pursue its own nuclear armament or accept a nuclear North Korea if Pyongyang’s...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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