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Greenwood hosting tourism conference
Greenwood will host the 2014 Mississippi-Alabama Rural Tourism Conference. The conference focuses on assisting smaller communities in bolstering tourism. The 2014 conference is scheduled for Oct. 20-22. Paige Hunt, executive director of the Greenwood Convention and Visitors Bureau, tells the Greenwood Commonwealth (http://bit.ly/14gqQV3 ) that Greenwood outbid three other cities ...
United adds spending requirement for elite status
United Airlines is making it a little harder to get a higher frequent-flier status. That status used to require flying 25,000 miles per year. Now, United is adding a requirement for at least $2,500 in spending, too, to qualify for status in its MileagePlus program. Most frequent fliers would spend ...
When car rental reservations aren't honored
We're sorry, sir, but we don't have any cars left. That was my unpleasant welcome to Michigan by Hertz. I had a reservation. They saw the reservation. The problem: Hertz hadn't actually saved me a car. So here I was, just off a plane in Kalamazoo, suitcase in tow and ...
24 sensational sand sculptures
These beach-born works of art go above and beyond your typical sand castle. Check out these sensational sand sculptures.
Big bill to repair damaged Fort Wayne sculpture
Fort Wayne Museum of Art officials estimate it could cost more than $200,000 and take perhaps a year to repair a large steel sculpture that was knocked over and damaged by a truck that barreled across its lawn. The 8- to 10-ton sculpture sitting outside the museum was hit early ...
Fire restrictions imposed for S. Utah, N. Ariz.
Officials are imposing campfire restrictions on parts of Utah and Arizona that are under a red-flag wildfire warning. Starting Thursday, federal and state officials say they will impose the restrictions on public lands in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Fireworks and welding are also banned. Smoking is prohibited outside buildings ...
Mich. law protects millage money for zoo, museum
Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Calley has signed legislation to keep Michigan communities from holding back millage money that voters approved for the Detroit Zoo and Detroit Institute of Arts. Some revenues from those millages have been diverted for other purposes in some municipalities. The new laws prohibit tax incrementing authorities ...
Gibson Co. site to mark freeing of last slaves
In celebration of Juneteenth — June 19, 1865, the day that Union soldiers freed slaves at Galveston, Texas, one of the last remaining pockets of slavery in the former Confederacy — Lyles Station Historic School in Gibson County will host a three-day observance with emphasis on fellowship starting Wednesday. "We ...
Argentine cash controls bring bargains, headaches
The Brazilian visitors gawk in wonder as they stroll past shop windows along touristy Florida street in the Argentine capital. The jackets, the shoes — they're all so cheap when your purse is stuffed with black-market money. Visitors who turn to the streets rather than the banks to swap their ...
Appeals court: BLM must story more grazing plans
The Bureau of Land Management must consider a wider range of grazing alternatives, including some that provide more protections for public land, when it reviews permits in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Western Watersheds Project, which brought the lawsuit ...
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