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Foreclosure filings were up 10 percent year-to-year in California during the first quarter of this year. That was the first double-digit increase in foreclosure starts – the first step in the foreclosure-filing process – in California since 2009, according to a report first published by The Press-Enterprise. In the Inland …

March was a good month for retail nationwide, as U.S chain store sales rose 3.6 percent year-over-year. National sales were also up 2.2 percent compared with February, which was hurt badly by severe weather in much of the country, according to data released today by the International Council of Shopping …

Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc. announced Thursday that it will open one of its discount stores at Mountain Grove, a retail project that is under construction next to Citrus Plaza, according to a statement. Mountain Grover is being developed by Majestic Realty in the City of Industry, which also developed Citrus Plaza, …

Disney’s ice skating extravaganza is returning to the Inland Empire. Disney On Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic features 65 Disney characters from 18 Disney stories. It opens a five-day run Wednesday at Citizens Business Bank Arena, 4000 Ontario Center Parkway, Ontario. Mickey and Minnie Mouse will lead the way, …

Garner Holt, whose San Bernardino animatronics company has designed and built attractions for Disneyland, Disney World, Knott’s Berry Farm and the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Themed Entertainment Association. Holt received the Buzz Price Thea Award for Lifetime Achievement during an …

A man hired to help the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians with some of its business affairs has admitted to participating in a kickback scheme that defrauded the tribe. David Alan Heslop of Templeton pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, …