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FILE - This May 5, 2013 file photo shows Justin Timberlake performing at the MasterCard Priceless Premieres concert in New York. It's a crowded tour market and everyone is competing for your entertainment dollar. Timberlake and Jay-Z are playing at some of America's most beloved ballparks and offer some of the hottest material going in music.  (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Top stars square off for summer tour dollars

All anyone's been talking about are those aged wonders The Rolling Stones and their 50th-anniversary tour, but there's so much more happening on the road this summer. It's a crowded tour market and everyone is competing for your entertainment dollar. The average concert-goer very rarely leaves that comfy chair to ...

AAA Mich., police, Tigers team up for teen drivers

AAA Michigan, the Michigan State Police and the Detroit Tigers have teamed up to promote teen-driving safety with an event at Comerica Park in Detroit. Representatives from each organization spoke Thursday morning at the home of the Tigers to outline efforts designed to encourage safe driving among teens this Memorial ...

Hundreds of thousands hit state roads this weekend

If you're hitting the road for the Memorial Day weekend, you'll have lots of company. The travel organization AAA estimates 627,000 people are expected to travel by land during the weekend in Wisconsin and another 33,000 by air. Travel is expected to be down about 1.6 percent from last year. ...

Lake Travis levels down but not out since drought

Boater Roger Weil liked the buzz at last Sunday's grand opening of the Crosswater Yacht Club on Lake Travis. While the lake's water level continues to fall to historical lows, he sees the new $7 million marina as a sign of better things to come. "The lake is back," he ...

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 ...

In this May 21, 2013 photo, a large banner for a new exhibit, "Rolling Stones 50 Years of Satisfaction", greets visitors in the main atrium at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.  The exhibit opens on Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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 ...

Mount Washington museum to get major overhaul

The Mount Washington Observatory museum is planning a major overhaul designed to give summer visitors a feel for the extreme winter weather atop the Northeast's highest peak. The 40-year-old education center attracts more than 100,000 visitors a year, making it the state's most visited museum. The new project, unveiled Thursday, ...

This undated photo released by the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau shows West End Beach in Traverse City, one of many free-of-charge beaches on Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay. (AP Photo/Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau)

5 free things to do in Traverse City, Michigan

Residents of this picturesque Lake Michigan community are known to quip, "The view of the bay is half your pay." It's a sardonic commentary on the local wage scale, but also a tribute to the stunning scenery and small-town quality of life that have lured many a newcomer from the ...

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 ...

A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York,  Wednesday, May 22, 2013.  A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New York companies continue to show visitors,  many of them foreigners who know of the Bronx only from movies, the grittiest part of the city's poorest borough. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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 ...

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