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115K expected at Electric Daisy Carnival in Vegas
Up to 115,000 partiers are expected each night this weekend for a dusk-to-dawn sensory salad of electronic dance music, lights, partying and mingling at a sprawling speedway complex outside Las Vegas. Electric Daisy Carnival officials said Wednesday that all 345,000 available tickets had been sold for the Friday, Saturday and ...
Dominican group drops meeting with Haiti official
A travel association in the Dominican Republic says it's canceled a meeting with Haiti's tourism minister because the Haitian government erroneously said there is avian flu in its neighbor and banned food imports. Elizabeth Tovar is managing director of the Operating Tourism Association. She said Wednesday the Haitian government's false ...
Visiting NYC's Coney, Rockaway beaches post-Sandy
Two of New York's best-known waterfront neighborhoods took a beating last fall from Superstorm Sandy: Coney Island in Brooklyn and the Rockaways in Queens. But crowds are back on both beaches and enjoying local attractions, from rides and hot dogs at Coney Island, to surfing and a funky taco stand ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
AP EXCLUSIVE: Taliban offer to free US soldier in exchange for Afghans held at Guantanamo ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. army soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, ...
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: June 18 The Star-Ledger, New Jersey, on unwillingness to make a debt deal keeps U.S. economic rebound stalled: The International Monetary Fund is that elite group of pinched-nosed accountants who have been running around Europe for the last ...
New outhouse planned 10,000 feet up Mount Rainier
Renovation work starts this summer on the highest outhouse in Washington. The National Park Service plans to upgrade the toilets at Camp Muir, which is at the 10,000-foot level of Mount Rainier. Camp Muir is a destination for day hikers and a stop for climbers before they make their final ...
Syrian exiles get taste of home: Beloved ice cream
For Syrians, no visit to Damascus' Old City is complete without a stop at a more than century-old ice cream parlor in its main souq where you can watch them make their distinctive desert by pounding it into shape with giant wooden mallets, then enjoy a bowl of it sprinkled ...
South Texas youngsters help with bird count
Eight-year-old Irene De La Fuente is already working toward her goal of becoming a superstar birder. And she says she wouldn't be able to do it without the help of the Children's Museum of Brownsville. "Here at the Children's Museum they help me a lot. They don't let you just ...
NH Children's Museum gets creative economy award
The Children's Museum of New Hampshire has won a Creative Economy Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts. The award, which has a $2,500 prize, recognizes successful strategies, scope of impact on the creative economy and the possibility for replication in other communities. The museum relocated from Portsmouth ...
Mich. Senate OKs off-road vehicles on more roads
All 83 Michigan counties could choose to allow off-road recreation vehicles on road shoulders under legislation nearing final approval in Lansing. Current law lets eight counties in the Lower Peninsula and every county in Upper Peninsula authorize off-road vehicles on road shoulders. A bill approved 27-11 along party lines Wednesday ...
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