A bad cop bullied his way to the top of the weekend box office, as a menacing Samuel
L. Jackson in Sony Pictures’ “Lakeview Terrace” overcame Lionsgate’s “My Best Friend’s Girl.”
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Abby Winger learned at least one thing during the more than a year she was out of work: how to live cheaply.
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Merchants in downtown Los Angeles’ Jewelry District gritted their teeth Wednesday as the price of gold soared $70.10 an ounce – the highest-ever one-day gain in dollars – and dashed even slim hopes that the struggling economy hadn’t wiped out all customers.
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Even after biotechnology company MannKind Corp.
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Seeking to freeze out imitators,
L.A.-based Pinkberry Inc.
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The gig: President since 2001 of Playmates Toys Inc., whose 55
U.S. employees design and market toys manufactured by the Playmates Toys Ltd.
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Consumers pummeled by high gas and food prices flocked to the nation’s discount stores for the back-to-school season, leaving department stores and other sectors struggling throughout August to catch up.
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As befits a recording artist living in fashion-conscious California, Laura Cohn has an extravagant wardrobe stuffed with world-class labels and high-wattage jewelry.
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Four months after an outbreak of salmonella hospitalized hundreds, forced groceries to toss out tomatoes and peppers by the thousands, infuriated fruit and vegetable growers and puzzled consumers, health authorities said Thursday that the epidemic was about over.
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The gig: Co-owners of Mark’s Garden floral shop in Sherman Oaks, which is known for its work on weddings, including those of Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani, Heidi Klum and, last weekend, Ellen DeGeneres.
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