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Mobile shopping not yet off the ground for many retailers

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Business

NEW YORK -- For all the buzz around mobile commerce, many retailers are surprisingly lukewarm about its ability to get digital-savvy shoppers to buy more from websites. Read story

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama walks onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.  Obama's dress was designed by Tracy Reese. Obama has proven her fashion savvy time and time again since she was introduced to the country as first lady on Inauguration Day 2009. In the past four years she has adeptly walked the line between directional fashionista and everywoman. (AP Photo/Jae C.

Ever-fashionable first lady puts substance over style

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama walks onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.  Obama's dress was designed by Tracy Reese. Obama has proven her fashion savvy time and time again since she was introduced to the country as first lady on Inauguration Day 2009. In the past four years she has adeptly walked the line between directional fashionista and everywoman. (AP Photo/Jae C.

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

NEW YORK -- Michelle Obama has proved her fashion savvy time and again since she was introduced as first lady in a lemongrass-yellow sheath and coat by Isabel Toledo on Inauguration Day 2009 -- so much so that we don't discuss it nearly as much as we used to. Read story

Pauline Friedman Phillips 
 Advice columnist best known as &quot;Dear Abby&quot;

Dear Abby’s legacy: Wit, warmth and snappy advice

Pauline Friedman Phillips 
 Advice columnist best known as &quot;Dear Abby&quot;

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

NEW YORK -- Two men had recently bought a house together in the tiny San Francisco neighborhood of Nob Hill, and the neighbors were annoyed. The men were entertaining "a very suspicious mixture of company," the neighbors wrote into their paper's advice column, asking, "How can we improve the neighborhood?" Read story

Sen. Cleveland seeks legislative pages for 2013

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Vancouver -- Sen. Annette Cleveland, D-Vancouver, is seeking students ages 14 to 16 interested in serving as legislative pages in the 2013 legislative session. Read story

Columbia Springs seeks new volunteer leaders

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

VANCOUVER -- If you have a passion for the environment and for working with people, you're invited to become a volunteer leader at Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center. Read story

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Toyota Motor Corp. officials say the company has settled what was to be the first in a group of hundreds of pending lawsuits involving vehicles.

Toyota settles with family in fatal crash

Seth Wenig/Associated Press files
Toyota Motor Corp. officials say the company has settled what was to be the first in a group of hundreds of pending lawsuits involving vehicles.

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Business

LOS ANGELES -- Toyota Motor Corp. has settled with family members of two people killed in Utah in a lawsuit that was to go to court next month and serve as a test case for a group of hundreds more that are pending. Read story

In a photo provided by ESPN, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o pauses during an interview with ESPN on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in Bradenton, Fla. ESPN says Te'o maintains he was never involved in creating the dead girlfriend hoax. He said in the off-camera interview: &quot;When they hear the facts they'll know.

Greg Jayne: We all love good story whether fact or fiction

In a photo provided by ESPN, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o pauses during an interview with ESPN on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in Bradenton, Fla. ESPN says Te'o maintains he was never involved in creating the dead girlfriend hoax. He said in the off-camera interview: &quot;When they hear the facts they'll know.

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

The truth, they say, is out there. Somewhere between the myth-making and the hero-worship and the legend-building, somewhere beyond the darkness of fiction and the fog of what we wish to be true, stands the brightness that is the truth. Read story

Check it out: Use ‘Lemons’ to make a clean home

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Do certain skills skip a generation? My mother is the perfect role model when it comes to cleaning, decluttering and organizing a home. I am not. Maintaining a well-organized, well-kept home eludes me. I like to think I picked up many positive habits from my parents, but somehow my wiring… Read story

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Herrera Beutler: No on light rail, gun bans

U.S. Rep.

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Now that Jaime Herrera Beutler will have more say over federal spending, particularly in the area of transportation, she said she'll advocate for a redesign of the Columbia River Crossing project that excludes light rail. Read story

Weather Eye: Under inversion, Vancouver’s been abnormally cold and dry

January 19, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

The afternoon high temperatures for Saturday went like this: In the foggy areas, it remained just a couple degrees above freezing. In the sunny areas, it managed to pop into the 40s. Along the coast, it was in the 50s and in the mid-elevation levels of the mountains, it was… Read story