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Rebecca Lewis: Missing 4-Year-Old Girl Found Safe in Memphis

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The search for Rebecca Lewis ended Monday with the abducted 4-year-old Florida girl’s safe return, authorities said. Rebecca has been found in Memphis after she went missing from her Lakeland, Fla. home on Saturday morning. Her disappearance prompted a massive police hunt in five states for the family friend who allegedly abducted her. The 31-year-old man, West Hogs, is now in custody, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. GREAT NEWS! Rebecca Lewis has been recovered in Memphis and is safe. Read More...

Rudolf Nureyev and the True Story Behind The White Crow

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When the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev came to Paris to tour with the Kirov ballet company in 1961, he was “like a wild animal out of a cage,” says Oleg Ivenko, the 26-year-old Ukrainian dancer and actor who plays Nureyev in the new movie The White Crow, out April 26 in the United States. “He got a taste of freedom and another world.” And once he got that taste, there was no going back — literally. Read More...

San Francisco's minimum wage is now $15 an hour here's how that stacks up to other major cities

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An hourly wage of $15 is more than twice the federal rate of $7.25, but it's still not enough to live in San Francisco comfortably, according to an SFGate analysis of data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. With a minimum-wage job, the numbers suggest, San Franciscans still need to work 160 hours per week to rent a two-bedroom home. Minimum wage levels differ by city, but many activist groups in other metros are pushing for their own bumps to $15 per hour. Read More...