Jean Queen

PROVO — An incident at BYU-Idaho has brought Brigham Young University and its dress code into the spotlight.

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Skinny jeans not banned on BYU campuses

Nearly everyone has a pair of jeans.

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Keeping Up With Jones

MIAMI — Gabriela Buchanan, a tourist from Mexico City, sat empty-handed on a bench on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road Mall Tuesday afternoon. She had been shopping unsuccessfully for jeans and T-shirts.

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Summer clothing prices rise with temperature

MUNSTER | Citizens Financial Bank held a jeans day Oct. 29 and30 to benefit the United Way.

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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Vernon based Lucky Brand Jeans will be moving its headquarters to Downtown Los Angeles, company and city officials announced this afternoon.

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Downtown Feeling Lucky

When University of Nebraska-Lincoln students were encouraged to”Drop your jeans for a good cause,” they responded — beyondanyone’s expectations.

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UNL students donate jeans to be converted into natural home insulation

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Wearing skinny jeans and oversized colorful shirts, four teenage boys sway into a small glass storefront in the middle of Skid Row. They are greeted warmly by Jill Kim, a thin, slightly shy 40-something single mom from South Korea.

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Dancin for Dollars

On Jan. 22 students at Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools organized a “jeans day” to help with Haiti relief efforts. Students were able to wear jeans in exchange for a donation to Catholic Relief Service to be sent to Haiti. (Plus more good news from around the region.)

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Northern Notes: ‘Jeans day’ for Haiti (Traverse City Record-Eagle)

PANAMA CITY — Smokey the Bear is one of America’s most identifiable advertising cartoons. The image — a brown bear in blue jeans with a ranger’s hat, gripping a shovel — has stayed the same since Smokey’s creation in 1944, but his message…

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Smokey now says: ‘Only you can prevent wildfires’ (The News Herald)

Police are investigating the armed robbery at Domino’s Pizza on Main Street man early Saturday morning. Police were called to the pizzeria at 1 a.m. where the store manager told them that a man 5 feet, 10 inches to 6 feet tall with an Asian accent wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a white bandana around his face pulled a 4-inch knife on a 16-year-old employee and asked him to …

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Man with knife robs Domino’s (Gloucester Daily Times)