Houston home-buying frenzy tapers in as New Year beginsYour Houston NewsHOUSTON – The Houston housing market exhibited the textbook laws of supply and demand in January as low housing inventory meant there were fewer homes…
CBS Local… New Year Parade, Festival. February 15, 2014 9:02 PM. View Comments. A parade float moves along Market Street in San Francisco’s celebration of the Year of the Horse , the Chinese New Year…
CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Despite being in the midst of a drought, people attending the annual Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Saturday evening should pack an umbrella and prepare for…
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The Most Dangerous Intersections For Pedestrians In San FranciscoCBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Most pedestrians killed were crossing illegally, mid-block. Some are jogging, others were running from someone. The most heart-wrenching was a family…
BBC NewsChinese New Year: London parade welcomes Year of the Horse. A dragon is carried during a parade celebrating Chinese New Year Thousands of people have turned out to celebrate the Chinese New Year in…
Telegraph.co.ukPeople marked the arrival of a new lunar year across, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Incense filled the air at one of Hong Kong’s best-known temples. Crowds gathered at Wong Tai Sin Temple before 11…
ABC NewsDragging a heavy suitcase through a Shanghai subway station, 17-year-old Linghu Yong prepared himself to cram onto a jam-packed train Thursday for the 30-hour trip home to spend the Lunar New Year with his…
WOIBEIJING (AP) – Chinese communities around the world are gearing up Thursday for the Lunar New Year holiday that begins at midnight. Mainland China will virtually shut down for the next seven days, and many…
CNN(CNN) — It’s that time again: Lunar New Year. Red packets of money will change hands and dragon dances will roar through the streets as people around the world, predominately of Chinese descent, usher in…
Los Angeles TimesBEIJING — Fireworks are as integral to Chinese New Year as pine trees are to Christmas. But with smog blanketing many Chinese cities these days, environmental activists, meteorologists and government officials are urging…
ESPNThe Orlando Magic own the fewest wins in the NBA since New Year’s Eve, but the injury-riddled Los Angeles Lakers haven’t fared much better. Each team figures to be happy to see the other struggling…
USA TODAYWASHINGTON – “Just breathe deeply.” That’s one of Vanessa Hudgens’ New Year’s resolutions. The star, 25, has it written in her journal as a reminder to be present, grounded and “in my body”—that’s a…
Resolution: Let’s all be nicer on San Francisco streetsSan Francisco ChronicleYou’ve likely made some personal New Year’s resolutions already. Hit the gym more often. Lay off the cronuts. Never, ever watch MTV’s new “The Real…
Las Vegas Review-JournalA portion of the Hacienda Hotel still stands after the rest of the structure fell during the New Year’s Eve implosion festivities on the Las Vegas Strip on Jan. 1, 1997. The remaining…
GossipCenter.comHitting the red carpet for one of the biggest movie events of the New Year, celebrities attended the premiere of action-drama, “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” in Hollywood today (January 15). The movie’s stars, Chris Pine…
Oakland: 17-year-old boy charged with New Year’s Eve killingContra Costa TimesOAKLAND — A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and will be prosecuted as an adult in the fatal shooting on New Year’s Eve…
NewsdayMadonna sparked controversy while on vacation in Switzerland on New Year’s Eve when she posted a picture of her 13-year-old son, Rocco Ritchie, holding a bottle of gin. The photo, captioned, “The party has just…
Our Nostalgia AddictionDaily BeastI flipped on the television on New Year’s Day, bleary-eyed and head throbbing, to discover something dreadful. New York City had become a Dickensian nightmare. Gangs of feral, ragged children tugged at…
This Oakland News comes from Las Vegas, where I am for the New Media Expo and International CES, or CES 2014, or the Consumer Electronics Show. I have two items to share: first my 30-minute…
EntertainmentwiseTwitter went into meltdown this week when photos emerged of Kendall Jenner and Harry Styles enjoying a ski holiday together in Mammoth, California. With the rumoured couple not spotted together in a number of weeks…
ESPNNEW YORK — Giving up a big run no longer means giving up for the Brooklyn Nets. The team that not long ago was accused by its coach of accepting losing is now showing a…
E! OnlineKim Kardashian’s post-baby workouts are paying off. After hitting the gym Friday in a sheer black workout top and cropped leggings, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star showed off the results of her…
USA TODAYJeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and new owner of The Washington Post, suffered a kidney stone attack while celebrating the New Year in the Galapagos Islands and had to be rushed back to…
Voice of AmericaA group of nuns in Spain got quite the New Year’s surprise when they checked their answering machine and realized they had missed a call from the pope. Leaving a message for them…
Evening StandardCommuters travelling to London from Dover or Northampton became reluctant members of the “£5,000 club” as season tickets broke the £5,000-a-year barrier for the first time, while Swindon commuters face paying £8,000 for their…
USA TODAYAn amazing find by a sharp-eyed astronomer and a bizarre discovery about the pooping habits of dogs are on this week’s list: 1. For 2nd time ever, we saw an asteroid before it hit…
USA TODAYSnapchat says it will launch a new version of its popular messaging app that lets users opt out of a feature exploited by hackers on New Year’s Eve. The service, which lets users post…
VentureBeatGranted, the leak happened late New Year’s Eve, and yesterday was a holiday, so Snapchat’s response isn’t as slow as it might otherwise seem. But the blog post is notable in its lack of an…
CNNAs New Year’s resolution, Seattle resident Beautiful Existence challenged herself to eat only food from Starbucks for all of 2013. She achieved that. Year-long challenges are a thing she does. Why Starbucks, exactly? In an…
Los Angeles TimesOne South Florida superfan of the show “Breaking Bad” has seen his life turn into something out of the show he idolized when he was arrested in the early morning hours of New…
VentureBeatAn Uber driver killed a 6-year-old female pedestrian in a New Year’s Eve traffic accident in San Francisco. Update: The driver was an Uber partner, Uber announced today in an updated statement. The company has…
USA TODAYStorylines, like optimistic resolutions heading into the New Year, are abundant as the PGA Tour resumes its 2013-14 wraparound season Friday in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Maui, Hawaii. While the calendar turned…
ReutersSYDNEY (Reuters) – A Chinese helicopter has reached a Russian ship stranded in Antarctica for nine days and is beginning to pick up 52 passengers who spent Christmas and the New Year trapped in ice,…
The MMQBIn the coming months, as the 2014 draft nears, we will hear all about Teddy Bridgewater’s lack of arm strength, size and other measurable qualities. But it’s what is unseen that will propel the…
Us MagazineIt’s just two days into the new year, but 2014 is already off to a great start for Kaley Cuoco and her new husband, tennis pro Ryan Sweeting. On Wednesday, Jan. 1 — just…
San Francisco ChroniclePasadena –. Stanford traded blows with another smash-mouth team on New Year’s Day, and this time, the other guys connected too many times. The Cardinal offense was held to one touchdown for the…
CNN(CNN) — Her character on “The Big Bang Theory” could never discuss the rings of Saturn, but there’s one ring actress Kaley Cuoco knows all about. According to People, Cuoco has wed boyfriend and tennis…
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com“The Big Bang Theory” star Kaley Cuoco and boyfriend Ryan Sweeting, the pro tennis player, tied the knot on New Year’s Eve after six months of dating. The bride, who wore a…
The Hollywood GossipMiley Cyrus may have toned it down on New Year’s Eve thanks to the cold weather and feeling under the weather, but she definitely can’t stop making headlines. Nor can she be tamed….
