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FILE - This May 9, 2011 file photo shows customers waiting in line at a Hertz rental car counter at San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif. Car rental agencies sometimes don't have enough cars to meet the demand. If there are no cars left at its airport rental facility, Hertz will let customers rent from a competitor and pay the difference, or pay for a cab to and from your hotel. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

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 ...

RYE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 16:  A detail of a sand sculpture at the Australian Sand Sculpting Championships, February 16, 2003 in Rye, Victoria, Australia. Ten sand sculptures some up to 15 metres high, were made from 1500 tonnes of sand which took a month to complete. This years theme included a French Carnivale maze,with larger than life sculptures of a Ferris wheel, carousel and fun house. Sand artists from all over the world competed in the event. (Photo by Stuart Hannagan/Getty Images)

24 sensational sand sculptures

These beach-born works of art go above and beyond your typical sand castle. Check out these sensational sand sculptures.

Fort Wayne, Ind., Museum of Art technical director Brian Williamson, left, and executive director Charles Shepard talk Monday, June 17, 2013, of the damage to Mark di Suvero's steel sculpture "Helmholtz." An Indiana man has been arrested on drunken driving charges after police say he ran his vehicle into the sculpture. (AP Photo, The Journal Gazette/Samuel Hoffman)   NEWS-SENTINEL OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES; MAGS OUT

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 ...

In this June 1, 2013 photo, Paraguayans returning from shopping in Clorinda, Argentina carry boxes and bags across the international bridge over the Pilcomayo River into the town of Nanawa, Paraguay.  Shoppers who turn to the street rather than the banks to swap their dollars are getting a bonanza of extra Argentine pesos and can shop much more cheaply than back at home due to Argentina's currency controls and black market for US dollars. Taking advantage of the guarani’s newfound strength, Paraguayans are rolling by the thousands into the Argentine frontier city of Clorinda to do their shopping.  (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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 ...

Raw: First Lady, Daughters Enjoy Irish Sights

Raw: First Lady, Daughters Enjoy Irish Sights

First lady, Michelle Obama took a tour of Ireland's Wicklow Mountains National Park with daughters Sasha and Malia on Tuesday. They are in Ireland while President Obama attends the G-8 summit. (June 18)

Ohio theme parks rank in top 15 in attendance

Ohio's Cedar Point and Kings Island were the most visited theme parks in the nation last year outside of the usual hot spots in Florida and California, according to a new report from an industry trade group. Cedar Point in Sandusky came in 14th in the nation in attendance, and ...

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