Shelly Perez and her father, Victor Romero, both of Camarillo, shop at Ross Dress for Less in Camarillo. Being an off-price retailer plays well “at a time when more people are looking for bargains,” a company official said. Full Article at Ventura County Star

FREEHOLD — Various street gang members and the alleged kingpins of a $750,000-a-week drug distribution ring charged with supplying the Shore area with cocaine and heroin have been named in a multiple-count indictment handed up by a grand jury in... Full Article at Asbury Park Press

When George Thompson stepped down as Gwinnett Schools Superintendent in January 1995, the student population was 80,000, half what it is today. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution

After the glowing re­sponse to last year's inaugu­ral Jackson Hospital Foun­dation fundraiser, more than 250 guests arrived to ex­perience "Midtown Gets Down, Again" at the A&P Lofts and Courtyard in Clo­verdale. Full Article at Montgomery Advertiser

A MAN who was crushed by a forklift in East Lothian may have suffered a heart attack moments before the accident. George Thompson, 57, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics at Greendykes Farm, Macmerry, on Friday morning. Full Article at Edinburgh Daily News

The man, named locally as George Thompson, had been paving the steading at Greendykes Farm in Tranent yesterday morning when he was struck by a reversing forklift truck. The 57-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Full Article at Edinburgh Daily News