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It’s odd but no so odd at the same time. By now, many people expect to walk into a beauty supply store and see a Korean store owner manning the register. Whether you’re in the suburbs of Houston or on MLK Blvd in Anytown, USA, you know what to expect. And yet, walking down a street in a Black neighborhood with Black residents and Black customers buzzing about the retail shops, that image of the few Koreans in the neighborhood only existing behind the cash register of liquor, beauty supply and other retail shops is still perplexing.

Former Toyota owners buy a Chevy Malibu

Customer tackles bank robber (raw video) Dramatic surveillance video from suburban Milwaukee shows a customer stopping a bank robbery by tackling the suspect and then holding him until police arrived. (AP/Sept. 21)http://www.ajc.com/video?bcpid=1659825399&bclid=1716449804&bctid=41523554001

Nevada Power was well known to engage in misleading propaganda about their business and finances. Now that they’ve become NV Energy, nothing has changed. The lies have actually expanded somewhat to be included in their new advertising campaign. Watch this video and tell me what you see written in fine print at the bottom.

On July 20th, Julianna's (delayed) Delta flight landed in Atlanta at 7:30pm, with a connecting flight scheduled for 8:05pm. Julianna, who has muscular dystrophy, missed the connecting flight because nobody came with a wheelchair until 8:05—the same time the connecting flight took off. To make matters worse, the plane crew told Julianna she might make the flight anyway if she stopped waiting for help and got off the plane right now, so she crawled down the stairs on her own. When the wheelchair came she was "wheeled into a back room and advised" that her plane had taken off. But...

British Internet bank Egg said Saturday it is terminating about 160,000 customers' credit card agreements, saying their credit profiles had deteriorated. A British lawmaker called the move unfair, and said Egg's decision should be investigated. Egg Banking PLC was bought by Citigroup Inc. last year, and the company said the move was the result of a "one-off, extensive risk review of our book" after the acquisition. The figure represents about 7 percent of Egg's credit card customers. "Egg has given a number of its credit-card customers 35 days' notice that it is ending their card agreements," the bank said in...

Satellite TV customers are facing price rises, as operators Dish Network and DirecTV hatch plans to increase rates, despite an ongoing rivalry with cable providers. Dish Network, owned by EchoStar Communications, plans to raise subscriptions by $2 to $4 a month, the company said Thursday. That translates to an average of 4.3 percent on average charges of $56.11. The new rates will take effect Feb. 1 and affect certain packages, such as the basic service. DirecTV is also planning to announce a rate hike this quarter, but details are not yet available, said Robert Mercer, a company spokesman. Currently, DirecTV...

A Customer Service Nightmare By J. Neil Schulman   Levitz Furniture. Its slogan: “You’ll love it at Levitz.”   The truth: You’d be more likely to love six years in the brig at Leavenworth.   This story begins May 8, 1998, with my mother’s purchase of a cloth-covered Berkline rocker recliner with heating and massage controls, and a seven-year-repair or full-replacement warranty policy, at the Levitz Furniture store in Torrance, California.   This story ends November 8, 2004 -- still within the seven-year warranty period -- when Susan Fairfax at the Levitz corporate office told me by telephone that...

If you plan on robbing a gas station in Anoka County, you had better watch out for vehicles. The Anoka County Sheriff's Department is searching for a suspect in a Thursday night armed robbery at a store in East Bethel. The man may be nursing a sore knee after a somewhat overzealous store customer rammed into him with a Jeep.

The latest in the saga of amateur PR at The Body Shop shows that this pro-PLO company has been shredding the documents, figuratively speaking, actually deleting webpages from its website to remove any reference to its $75,000 gift to the group which advocates a Palestinian "right to return".

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A waitress who had thrown a group of suspected gang members out of her family's Salvadoran restaurant was killed along with a 24-year-old customer when the men returned and one opened fire, authorities said. Waitress Yesenia Rodriguez spotted the gun and tried to block the men when at least four of them returned to the restaurant Saturday afternoon, witnesses told the Los Angeles Times for Sunday's editions. "He opened fire like a madman," said Rodriguez's sister, Marlene Castellon. "It's a miracle he didn't kill more people." Rodriguez, a mother of two, died shortly after the shooting,...