All posts tagged "topstories"

  • school
    Queens school with Asian-only kindergarten class reassigns students

    P.S. 159, the Queens elementary school accused of segregating its kindergarten class by race by parents, reassigned students to classrooms after administering an ESL test Thursday. In a meeting Thursday, Paul Didio, the school’s principal, announced the...

    • Posted September 12, 2014
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  • leejayhyun
    CJ chairman given three-year prison term for embezzlement and tax evasion

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A Seoul appeals court, partly overturning a lower court’s ruling, on Friday handed down a reduced jail sentence of three years to the chairman of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group, who is charged...

    • Posted September 12, 2014
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  • Aimee Lee Lucas during an MVP dance class. (Courtesy of Aimee Lee Lucas)
    Aimee Lee Lucas: From YG to MVP

    By Tae Hong Don’t slap “YG Choreographer” onto Aimee Lee Lucas and expect to successfully define her under that singular title. It may be her claim to fame, but the 28-year-old has more than just her years...

    • Posted September 11, 2014
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  • nkorea4
    N. Korea delegates arrive in S. Korea for Asian Games

    INCHEON (Yonhap) — The first batch of 94 members of the North Korean delegation to the Asian Games in South Korea arrived here on Thursday. The group that flew from Pyongyang to Incheon International Airport included athletes...

    • Posted September 11, 2014
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  • hot2
    More scorching weather heading to L.A. this weekend

    Sunday and Monday expected to be the hottest days LOS ANGELES (CNS) – More scorching weather is heading to the Southland this weekend, with triple-digit heat anticipated in some areas and forecasters warning today that the hot and dry conditions...

    • Posted September 11, 2014
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  • Law enforcement agents check a clothing store during a raid in the Los Angeles Fashion District Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. U.S. agents raided dozens of businesses in the fashion district of Los Angeles early Wednesday as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering done for Mexican drug cartels. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut )
    Feds raid LA’s Fashion District in drug money laundering probe, 2 Koreans arrested

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Hundreds of federal agents swarmed through the downtown Los Angeles Fashion District today, arresting nine people and seizing $65 million as part of a crackdown on what prosecutors called a sophisticated operation to launder money for...

    • Posted September 10, 2014
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  • The New York Police Department reveals details of the case outside the Flushing apartment Tuesday. (Jo Jin-woo/The Korea Times)
    Queens man kills family and self, sets apartment on fire

    A Queens man killed his wife and son before setting their apartment on fire and slashing his own throat Tuesday, the New York Police Department said. The fire broke out around 4:50 a.m. Tuesday at a Flushing...

    • Posted September 10, 2014
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