Month: January 2020

A new year, a new round of damning accusations against disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly, courtesy of Lifetime TV. “Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning” premieres Thursday with a fresh round of bombshell interviews alleging that the singer sexually abused multiple minors over a three-decade period — and that he’s currently preying upon young…

In one of the first airline flash sales of 2020, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is offering round-trip airfares starting at $449 between LAX and several Scandinavian cities. The sale applies to budget or Go Light tickets, which allow travelers one carry-on bag only and carry other restrictions. The $449 round-trip airfares applies to flights from Los…

Carlos Ghosn has spent more than a year trapped in a Japanese legal odyssey that’s transfixed the automotive world and thrown his life into chaos. Now, having pulled off an escape from Japan to Lebanon, he’s an international fugitive. But the executive is also free to speak his mind fully, without legal filtering, for the…

Google has overhauled its global tax structure and consolidated all of its intellectual property holdings back to the U.S., signaling the winding down of a tax loophole estimated to have saved American companies hundreds of billions of dollars. The internet search company said on Tuesday the move was designed to simplify its corporate tax arrangements…

Predicting the future is hard, even for the people with the most power to influence it. In 2013, Jeff Bezos said he expected Amazon.com Inc. would be delivering packages by drone in four to five years. Here we are seven years later, the flying delivery robots Bezos envisioned are still at the testing stage and…

Western Truck Exchange’s smiling retro trio of Wayne, Dan and Mark make up one of Los Angeles’ best-known company logos, traversing the city on the mudflaps of thousands of trucks. But there are other local businesses with beloved designs. Here are a few, along with their backstories, from one nearly a century old to a…

CHICAGO —  The sale of marijuana for recreational purposes became legal Wednesday in Illinois — prompting many to begin lining up hours early at dispensaries. About 500 people were outside Dispensary 33 in Chicago. Renzo Mejia made the first legal purchase in the shop shortly after 6 a.m., the earliest that Illinois’ new law allowed such…

ELDON, Iowa —  Tiny Eldon in southeast Iowa has been losing population, jobs and business for nearly five decades, but one woman is trying to turn things around with a focus on tourism centered around the community’s famous landmark — the house that served as the backdrop for Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting. Donna Jeffrey, 70,…

JAKARTA, Indonesia —  Severe flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain in Indonesia’s capital have killed 17 people and displaced tens of thousands, a disaster official said Thursday. Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged at least 169 neighborhoods in greater Jakarta and caused landslides in the Bogor and Depok districts on Jakarta’s outskirts, according to Agus…

VICTOR, N.Y. —  The top Republican in the New York State Assembly was charged New Year’s Eve with driving while intoxicated in his state-issued vehicle, just a week after he wrote a newspaper column warning citizens against getting behind the wheel drunk. Click Here: WORLD CUP Rugby Shop Brian M. Kolb, a Republican from Canandaigua who…