WARREN – Raymonda “Rae” L. Houston, 70, passed from this life on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, surrounded by her family at The Windsor House Nursing Home of Champion following a lengthy illness. Mrs. Houston was born July 30, 1942, in…

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti says he’s going to focus like a “laser beam” on the economy when he takes office July 1. Garcetti spoke Wednesday with reporters the day after he defeated city Controller Wendy…

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EAST AURORA, N.Y. (AP) — Toy maker Fisher-Price says it’s moving or eliminating roughly 100 jobs from its New York operations as part of restructuring by parent company Mattel Inc. The majority of jobs will be reassigned to Mattel’s El…

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The next mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in the city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond…

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Download image HOUSTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Junior Achievement USA‘s 2013 TeensArticle source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/survey-86-of-houston-teens-plan-to-work-this-summer-47-percent-are-very-confident-they-will-find-jobs-despite-national-double-digit-teen-unemployment-rate-208549891.html

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MAYOR ANNISE PARKER: City-sponsored smart phone app helps Houstonians find jobs Annise Parker Article source: http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/west_university/opinion/mayor-annise-parker-city-sponsored-smart-phone-app-helps-houstonians/article_d21c32d1-ff91-52fa-9bb8-38a160d50c87.html

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BALTIMORE (AP) — President Barack Obama tried on Friday to leave behind the political battles that have overshadowed his second-term agenda, saying lawmakers should work on creating more middle-class jobs in the slowly growing economy. “Our work is not done,…

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Houston has ranked number one for engineering jobs, in a report from job listings site Monster.com this morning, with both Dallas and Austin also seeing a high ranking. According to Monster, the online job board service, it ranked the top…

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David Karp, 26, just sold his company Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in an all-cash deal. What’s the founder really like?  According to close friend and Tumblr’s first employee, Marco Arment, Karp is a lot like Steve Jobs was.…

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