Black Friday 2010 Big Deals Highlight Shopping Frenzy
Shoppers faced crowded aisles and heated moments as Black Friday unfolded with many finding bargains on low price TVs while others reported clashes. Anna Camp of Elyria lost a $298 TV amid a scramble, while an Elyria Target crowd encountered line jumpers but avoided arrests. The Thomas family from Lorain recalled midnight sales at Walmart and dawn runs to Toys R Us and Kmart for deals.
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Anna Camp
Elyria
Camp
Frank
Walmart
Toys R Us
Thomas
Lorain
Cathy Thomas
Nellie
Kmart
National Retail Federal
Black Friday shoppers flood malls in hunt for deals
Nationally competitive shoppers descend on malls armed with coupons store plans and money to spend. Irene Agan of Long Beach braves a two hour pre opening wait at a Torrance Toys R Us hoping for Barbie dolls as lines and brisk sales mark the start of the holiday shopping weekend. Fights erupt in food courts and at Best Buy as bargain seekers flood stores with intent to buy this season.
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Los Angeles
Irene Agan
Long Beach
Calif
Toys "R" Us
Torrance
Los Cerritos
Best Buy
Burbank
Power outage hits Dayton Mall during Black Friday rush
Officials say a midday outage at Dayton Mall disrupted about 3900 customers and forced several stores to close for about an hour. The failure affected other businesses and a hospital with a backup generator, drawing extra police to manage crowds.
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Dayton
Ohio
Dayton Power & Light
Judi Blair
Dayton Daily News
Miami Township
John DiPietro
Suspects Arrested in Lorain Chase Bank Robbery
Lorain police have arrested Dezmon Lawrence, 28, and a 16-year-old boy for the November 14 Chase Bank robbery at 2232 Fairless Drive. The teen wore a woman’s disguise. fingerprints and tips from Myspace aided the investigation. Lawrence faces aggravated robbery charges with a pretrial set.
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Chase Bank
Fairless Drive
Dezmon Lawrence
Dennis Moskal
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Moskal
East 29Th Street
Sourtesy
Seizure Ties Marijuana Cache to San Diego Tunnel
U S authorities said on Friday that they seized about 27 600 pounds of marijuana connected to a tunnel in San Diego. The tunnel was equipped with a rail car and represented the second major underground drug passage found in the city this month.
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San Diego
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