Travel
Colo. rockslide prompts 200-mile detour
By Admin on March 11, 2010
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Workers are breaking up a huge boulder threatening to tumble down a cliff onto Interstate 70 in western Colorado, days after a rock slide that closed the highway indefinitely.
Active 2010 hurricane season predicted
By Admin on March 11, 2010
Meteorologists are predicting an active 2010 hurricane season with above-normal threats on the U.S. coastline.
Climbing in the footsteps of Moses
By Admin on March 11, 2010
There are two routes for the 4.3-mile round trip: The camel path, or a steeper, more direct route of some 3,750 stairs to the top, sometimes referred to as “God’s Stairmaster.”
There are two routes for the 4.3-mile round trip up Mount Sinai: The camel path, or a steeper route of some 3,750 stairs to the top, sometimes called “God’s Stairmaster.”
The best food in Vegas
By Admin on March 11, 2010
French, Spanish, Thai, Japanese, American fare — haute cuisine has a new home on the Strip.
French, Spanish, Thai, Japanese, American fare — haute cuisine has a new home on the Strip in the CityCenter.
Smithsonian gets Harriet Tubman collection
By Admin on March 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tourists and history buffs will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of abolitionist Harriet Tubman when a museum of African-American history opens on the National Mall.
When to complain to the airlines
By Admin on March 10, 2010
DALLAS (AP) — So the airline lost your luggage. Should you make a federal case out of it — literally?
Khmer Rouge sites used for tourism
By Admin on March 10, 2010
Cambodia plans to preserve 14 sites — including the home of Pol Pot — for use as tourist attractions.
Cambodia plans to preserve 14 sites — including the home of Pol Pot — for use as tourist attractions.
Keep taking those shoes off — for now
By Admin on March 10, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) — You’ll still have to take off your shoes when you go through airport security.
Google gets bike-friendly
By Admin on March 10, 2010
Map feature adding routes and trips for cyclists in Chicago and 149 other cities
Map feature adding routes and trips for cyclists in Chicago and 149 other cities
1 million sign up for free Disney tickets
By Admin on March 10, 2010
10 weeks after program starts, Disney hits cap of 1 million people who signed up for the free-tickets-if-you-volunteer deal.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Disney reached its goal Tuesday of getting 1 million people to sign up for a day of volunteer work in exchange for a free one-day ticket to a Disney park.
Business »
Exelon to pay $1M to settle leak suits
March 12, 2010
Tritium-contaminated water seeped into ground around the company’s Braidwood, Byron and Dresden plants
Exelon agreed Thursday to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuits filed by Attorney General Lisa Madigan after the company allowed radioactive tritium to leak outside three of its nuclear power plants.
Sports »
Hawks’ Ladd: ‘Being lazy in D-zone … turned into goals’
March 12, 2010
Team knows it’s not just responsibility of goalies to limit opponents
It was team picture day for the Blackhawks on Thursday followed by an optional practice during which several players took to the ice wearing teammates’ sweaters. Andrew Ladd appeared as Jonathan Toews, Dustin Byfuglien impersonated Patrick Sharp, Adam Burish was Marian Hossa and so on.
National »
Suicide bombings kill 39, wound 95 in Pakistan’s Lahore, signal potential new wave of violence
March 12, 2010
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.
Politics »
Rod Blagojevich case
January 21, 2009
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