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Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout
The forecast for summer travel, 2013: Partly sunny. Airlines, hotels and campgrounds are commanding higher rates and seeing more customers than a few summers ago, and luxury hotels are selling out. Local businessmen and state officials are optimistic. But for a travel industry still stinging from the Great Recession, the ...
Nixon library hosts reunion for Vietnam POWs
U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. Burns broke three vertebrae when he ejected into a flooded rice paddy and spent the first weeks of his ...
Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage
A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under protest from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance," issued a ...
Rolling Stones exhibit opening in Cleveland
Over the years, curators at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum have occasionally had trouble coaxing reluctant stars to help put together major exhibitions. Not so with members of The Rolling Stones, who made time in their packed anniversary schedule to help. "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of ...
NM museums offer free admission for military
New Mexico's 15 state-run museums and historic sites will be free this summer for active duty members of the military and their families. The free admission will be offered from Memorial Day through Labor Day as part of the national Blue Star Museums program. Free admission will available to those ...
2 dozen Ky. museums take part in Blue Star program
Two dozen Kentucky museums and other attractions are offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families starting Monday and continuing through Labor Day. They're among more than 2,000 locations opening their doors at no charge to military personnel and up to five family members. The "Blue Star Museums" ...
Military gets free admission to OH amusement park
Current and former members of the U.S. military will get free admission to Kings Island amusement park in southwest Ohio over Memorial Day weekend. The park says a valid military ID must be presented at the Kings Island ticket window to take advantage of the free admission offer which runs ...
1 child dead, 1 missing in Minn. park landslide
A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing. The landslide at Lilydale Regional Park swept over a group of children from Peter ...
Family Ties: Jarrett, Petty enter NASCAR hall
NASCAR honored a pair of its most famous and successful families with inductions into the Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Past champion Dale Jarrett joined father Ned in the hall and master mechanic Maurice "Chief" Petty became the fourth member of one of NASCAR's most royal families to be selected ...
Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers
American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory and use the loyalty points to help medical patients and students travel off the islands when necessary. Hawaiian Airlines agreed to the plan that takes effect on June 1, American ...
Environmentalists sue over OC toll road extension
Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the extension of a toll road in southern Orange County, five years after widespread public opposition stopped a similar project. The lawsuit filed in San Diego County Superior Court argues that plans for a 5.5-mile extension to the south State Route 241 ...
2,000 museums offer military families free tickets
More than 2,000 museums across the nation are offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer, beginning on Memorial Day. The Blue Star Museums program was announced Tuesday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. The program runs through Labor Day in September. The offer ...
Dallas exhibit reunites art JFK saw before death
Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling "reverential." Zajac's small sculpture of a bound goat was among a collection of impressive artwork that decorated the president's Fort Worth ...
NM students could win prizes for reading books
New Mexico children could win a trip to Disney's Animal Kingdom or ride in a hot air balloon with Gov. Susana Martinez under a program that state officials hope will encourage students to read when they aren't in school. The governor announced several contests on Wednesday that offer prizes to ...
Details of the Senate immigration bill
A look at the 867-page immigration overhaul bill approved Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee: ___ BORDER SECURITY —The bill sets goals of surveillance of 100 percent of the border with Mexico, and catching or turning back 90 percent of would-be crossers. —Within six months of enactment of the bill, ...
US immigration bill moves forward in Senate
The most far-reaching U.S. immigration legislation in about two decades moved forward on a solid bipartisan vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee after supporters avoided a controversy over the rights of gay spouses. The 13-5 vote cleared the way for a full Senate showdown on one of President Barack Obama's ...
Senate panel approves immigration bill
Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses. The 13-5 vote cleared the way for an ...
U.S. TRACKED FOREIGNERS LEAVING FOR CANADA
c.2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of foreigners passing into Canada from the United States have unwittingly been a part of a grand experiment by the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on visitors who violate laws governing the length of their stay. Long ...
Muppets creator Henson's items head to NYC museum
The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the ...
Utah Gov. Herbert rails against US Land management
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert told a congressional subcommittee on Tuesday his state does a better job than U.S. land managers and has a bigger stake than the bureaucrats in protecting the natural resources and rugged beauty that drives Utah's outdoor recreation and tourism industry. "No one understands state challenges and ...
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