Catia la Mar, Venezuela – Andreina Velasquez looks up at her multistorey apartment block overlooking Catia la Mar, a coastal city in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira. The concrete slabs that once separated each floor are now stacked on top of each other.”They fell like a pack of cards,” she said, pointing to where she used to live on the sixth floor.Velasquez feels lucky. She left her apartment a couple of hours before a pair of deadly earthquakes shook Venezuela on June 24, reaching magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, respectively.She had gone to get a new key cut and…

A mega outdoor “adventure store” is coming to Southern California when Bass Pro Shops opens a store in La Mesa, the first one ever in San Diego county. The popular outdoor retailer announced on Wednesday plans to construct a massive 148,000-square-foot store at the Grossmont Center, with an opening date expected…

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Thousands of borrowers have applied to enroll their student loans in the Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, a new income-driven repayment option that launched on Wednesday. Nearly 50,000 borrowers had applied to RAP within the first 24 hours of the program’s debut, said Education Department officials.“@usedgov launched the new income-driven…

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