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Vang came to the U.S. in 1980, settling first in Stockton, Calif., and serving six years in the California Army National Guard, where he qualified as a sharpshooter. After moving three years ago to St. Paul, where he lives with his wife and six children, he worked as a truck driver. Among the local habits he enthusiastically adopted was deer hunting, applying for and receiving a hunting license for the past four years. Hunting was a fundamental part of Hmong life in Laos, where it was done quite differently: there were no prescribed hunting seasons and rarely any delineations between...
Customers decide that, don't they? If they're not shopping, you wouldn't build them. Many of the stores that you assume are controversial are some of our best stores. We just opened a store in Stockton [Calif., where some towns have blocked new Wal-Marts] that's done fabulously well. Some people within communities don't want us, but the shoppers sure as heck...
DIED. WILLIAM MITCHELL, 92, food scientist who accidentally invented Pop Rocks, the exploding candy that burst onto the market in 1975; in Stockton, Calif. During 35 years as a chemist for General Foods, he patented more than 70 inventions, including concoctions that led to the development of Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O gelatin and the drink mix Tang. In the 1950s, while attempting to create an instant soft drink, he discovered Pop Rocks when he placed sugar flavoring mixed with carbon dioxide on his tongue...
...best start of the season may have been his most recent. The 2002 Ivy Co-Pitcher of the Year allowed only four hits in the first six innings of Monday night’s game against Stockton, prompting Visalia manager Stu Cole to say he was “very pleased” with Crockett’s performance, despite the 24-year-old eventually being tagged with the loss...
...Ferdan, whose wood-fire oven sports a copper plate with "In God We Trust" written above it in Arabic. The pizzas ($5, including a Coke) have thin crusts and fresh ingredients. "This is better," says Gbassage, who used to flip pizza dough at a Domino's in Stockton, California. Our Iraqi panel agrees. "The feeling in the mouth is good," says Qassim Wahim, 42, a clerk in the Ministry of Transport...