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• "Landstrom's is an icon of the Black Hills," he said. "We are steeped in the history and tradition of this area and have the best name recognition in the Black Hills Gold industry."
• Three generations of the Landstrom family have operated the business since 1878. In 1995, Landstrom's purchased competitor F.L. Thorpe.
• The Riddle's Group was founded in 1959 and now owns more than 45 jewelry stores throughout the Midwest.
• Black Hills gold jewelry features a unique design of grape leaves, clusters and vines in tri-colored gold. By federal mandate, this style of jewelry must be manufactured in the Black Hills of South Dakota in order to be described as "Black Hills Gold Jewelry."
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AP News in Brief
Malaysia Airlines 777 jet vanishes on flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 aboard
• KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Search and rescue crews across Southeast Asia scrambled to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday with 239 people aboard.
• Less than one hour after Flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, the plane disappeared from radar. More than 12 hours after contact was lost, there was still no sign of the aircraft, and no wreckage had been spotted.
• Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said there was no indication that the pilots sent a distress signal. The fact that there was apparently no call for help suggests that whatever happened to the flight occurred quickly.
• The plane, which carried passengers mostly from China but also from other Asian countries, North America and Europe, was last spotted around where the South China Sea meets the Gulf of Thailand.
• At Beijing's airport, authorities posted a notice asking relatives and friends of passengers to gather at a hotel about 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the airport to wait for further information, and provided a shuttle bus service. A woman wept aboard the shuttle bus while saying on a mobile phone, "They want us to go to the hotel. It cannot be good!"
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