It will entertain relocation offers immediately, pageant Chief Executive Art McMaster said.McMaster surprised the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority on Thursday by asking it to release the pageant from the last two years of its five-year contract to stage the annual event in Boardwalk Hall, where Miss Americas have been crowned since 1940.The board [...]

When Paulus got up he brushed shoulders with Hinnant.Hinnant thought the contact was intentional, and he shoved Paulus. But when the economy is doing well, their reactions are more difficult to predict, he said.”This year it’s a little more complex to figure because it’s clear that the objective measures of how the economy is doing [...]

This was a big piece of foam.”*Johnson reported from Houston and Vartabedian from Los Angeles.HOUSTON With Discovery’s crew about 200 miles above Earth, NASA on Wednesday abruptly suspended all scheduled shuttle flights after determining that a piece of insulating foam — nearly as large as the piece that doomed Columbia in 2003 — [...]

I’ve never been stopped in Costa Mesa, so I can’t dispute the mayor. This also means higher time-related costs, such as for supervision, overhead and temporary facilities.I suggest you get all the pain out of the way and enjoy your new and improved home.Submit remodeling questions to Kathy Price-Robinson at www.kathyprice.com, or send to Real [...]

Pimentel, an assistant admissions director who has been part of the process at UCLA since 1983, when she was a student staffer. “That’s so far from our practice that TV didn’t even occur to me.”The Internet changed his mind.The Lapidus brothers hired a new ad agency, Spot Runner Inc., that uses the Net to help [...]