Metropolitan Police say they cannot remember the last time a tourist was murdered in the nation’s capital.
Tuesday evening, a Denver man’s body was found in an alley.
Gary Dederich, 66, worked for many years as a registered nurse at a hospital in the Denver area and was taking a vacation in Washington, D.C. At approximately 6:02 p.m. Tuesday, units from the Fourth District responded to the 800 block of Emerson Street, Northwest, for the report of an unconscious person. Upon their arrival, they found Dederich, suffering from blunt force head trauma. Read Article
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VICTORIANS are being warned not to pick wild mushrooms as potentially fatal varieties thrive in warm autumn conditions.Three months after two people died from mushroom poisoning after a dinner party in Canberra, Victoria’s acting chief health officer Dr Michael Ackland warned people to avoid the mushrooms proliferating in gardens across the state. Read article
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U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Jackson Heights) announced that he will introduce a measure in the House of Representatives that will encourage the U.S. Government to expand the Visa Waiver Program, an effort that he expects to help boost tourism in Queens. The Congressman was joined by Jack Friedman, executive director of the Queens Chamber of […]
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A JetBlue aircraft bound for West Palm Beach, Fla., made an emergency landing at a suburban New York airport shortly after hitting birds upon takeoff. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters says JetBlue Flight 571 carrying 54 passengers had a bird strike while taking off from Westchester County Airport in White […]
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DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department said an Austrian tourist missing for a week while on a motorcycle trip has been found. Officials said Johannes Stummer, 25, was found walking on a logging road Thursday. He was last seen on March 22 in Big Moose Township, north of Moosehead Lake. He was reported missing […]
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Friends of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over the deaths. They said the President’s failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House was because there was no ‘political value’ and it was not worthy of a few minutes of his time. Read […]
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Tourist helicopter pilot Matthew Goodine, 28, was killed on Friday (March 30) when his helicopter crashed near Grotto Mountain. Four British tourists (two men and two women) were also aboard the chopper at the time of the crash, but survived the event. According to The Calgary Sun, the cause of the crash is unclear, although […]
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There is a lot of controversy today about the seizure of the Carnival Triumph cruise ship in Galveston. Lawyers in Mississippi and Texas who are representing the family of a German woman killed on the Costa Concordia filed a lawsuit against Carnival in Galveston. In addition to the lawsuit, they filed a motion to obtain […]
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The chief executive of Bristol Airport has called on the Welsh government to view his expanding business as an “opportunity not a threat”. Robert Sinclair said he was keen to work closely with Wales’ tourism bodies to improve the services “we [Bristol] provide for Welsh passengers”. Read article
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Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside wants to see an end to the strike at the Fredericton International Airport and is calling on both sides of the labour dispute to return to the bargaining table. Twenty-five support and maintenance staff walked off the job in mid-February. Read article
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