All Stories from December 15, 2013 (Change date)
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Lego fans flock to Cantigny for holiday train showDec 15, 2013 6:49 am - Suzie Lehman said visiting Cantigny Park on Sunday probably kicked her son’s pre-Christmas anticipation into overdrive. Cantigny hosted the annual Lego Train Show and Pa...
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Liquor producers experiment with exclusive boozeDec 15, 2013 6:07 am - SAN FRANCISCO — There’s something different about the gin and tonics they mix at Rickhouse bar on San Francisco’s Kearny St. And it tastes a lot like ... exclusivity. It...
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Traditional tribal rituals at Mandela’s funeralDec 15, 2013 6:06 am - JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral ...
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Detroit’s water drains away from ravaged pipesDec 15, 2013 6:05 am - DETROIT — Torrents of water spew from broken pipes in Detroit’s Crosman School, cascading down stairs before pooling on the warped tile of what was once a basketball cou...
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Once-frothy Nasdaq tries to reach dot-com peakDec 15, 2013 6:04 am - NEW YORK — It takes a long time to recover from a bad hangover, especially when you party like it’s 1999. The Nasdaq Composite is up 35 percent this year, but while othe...
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How Volcker Rule would limit banks’ risky betsDec 15, 2013 5:57 am - WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators have approved a rule that seeks to defuse the kind of risk-taking on Wall Street that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis. The Volcker ...
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Fact Checker: GOP leader’s healthcare claimsDec 15, 2013 5:51 am - “Obamacare does not even address the issue of costs. In fact, it exacerbates the problem and causes 85 percent of Americans who had health insurance and who liked it ext...
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Health-care law’s aggregation rules vex small firmsDec 15, 2013 5:50 am - WASHINGTON — Ellis Winstanley and his twin brother own eight restaurants and two software firms in Austin, Texas. In addition, through a business partnership with their ...
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Images: Nelson Mandela funeralDec 15, 2013 5:46 am - A hearse carrying Mandela’s body drove into his hometown Qunu in rural South Africa before his burial Sunday, returning the country’s peacemaker to the place where he ha...
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GM courting outdoorsy Angelenos to vie with Toyota pickupsDec 15, 2013 5:29 am - SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — For Rick Alpern, who runs the Keyes Chevrolet auto dealership in Los Angeles, few tasks are tougher than selling big trucks to eco-conscious Californ...