When Miwa Takeuchi found out her part-time clerical job had been outsourced to a Japanese temp staffing agency and she'd have to work longer hours for lower pay, she was relieved. At least she was still employed.

Much has already been written about the industry behind the employment of foreign workers in Israel. Middlemen, personnel agencies and even some employers all profit at the expense of these labor migrants. And yet, there's always a new twist.

Demand for temporary workers who use recruitment agencies is set to plummet if a European directive to give them the same pay as permanent staff is introduced.

At the Homeless Veteran Stand Down area agencies had the chance to meet and discuss how to better work together to help veterans for more than that one day.

SAN GABRIEL - After enduring 29 gang-related shootings last year and a spate of gang-involved killings in January, Monrovia has had no gang shootings since then, thanks to the work of a joint-agency police task force, Monrovia police Chief Roger Johnson t