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The Regal Theater in downtown Santa Cruz will remain open after a new company purchased the theater. The company announced on Instagram the theater will now be called the Santa Cruz theater. The company had announced it would be closing for good in mid-February. Now, Santa Cruz Cinema plans to reopen on March 25.

Recruiters in areas with a dearth of professionals, including Maine, are successfully targeting talent that has local roots, but left for school and careers. AUGUST 23, 2017 —Alana Greer was sure she’d never return to Miami. “I was very anti-moving home for a really long time,” says the civil rights attorney, who graduated from Harvard Law School and worked in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., before resettling near her childhood home in Coral Gables. “But I can’t imagine myself anywhere else right now.” Ms. Greer is co-founder of the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit law firm that works with grassroots...

Nathan Duszynski, a 13-year-old whose hot dog cart was shut down by city officials in Holland, Mich., is now homeless, along with his disabled parents. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy first reported the story. Nathan had saved up money for a hot dog cart to help his parents pay their bills. His mother suffers from epilepsy and his father suffers from multiple sclerosis, limiting their ability to work. The family survives on $1,300 a month in disability assistance, food stamps and medicaid, but has struggled to stay afloat. “Nate and I are now in a shelter,” Nathan’s mother Lynette...