Tribtoday.com reports that city officials and business leaders in three Cleveland suburbs say they were shocked to see their communities on a list that the French government has warned tourists to avoid. Cleveland Heights, Euclid and Lakewood were specifically mentioned on the French Foreign Ministry website as places to avoid “at day and night” because they are supposedly dangerous. Officials call the assessments foolish and unjustified. Read article
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The New York Times reports that the Yellow Dogs, as the four Iranian musicians were known, played in the shadows until 2009, when they appeared in a film about Iran’s underground music scene that garnered international attention. The next year, they left for America, finding their way to East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where their tidy house […]
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cbsnews.com reported…..How much trust do you put in the scales that weigh your luggage at the ticket counter? You probably don’t think about their accuracy and accept their output without question. That can have serious financial implications, though, since luggage overage fees can be as much as $100. Indeed, in the past I explained that […]
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9news.com reported that a man in his 20s who bolted through a Seattle-Tacoma International Airport security checkpoint, ran down a concourse and out onto the tarmac was arrested Friday night after police caught up with him in an empty airplane, an airport spokesman said. “It appears to be a drug-induced situation,” spokesman Perry Cooper said, […]
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NBC News reports that a French family has been stranded in Chicago for about a week after British Airways deemed a man too fat to fly. Kevin Chenais, 22, a resident of France, reportedly tips the scales at more than 500 pounds, and that’s too much for British Airways to handle. A British Airways spokesperson […]
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According to omaha.com, the French tourist was crossing Iowa aboard Amtrak’s California Zephyr on Monday night. For some reason, she became agitated, hurrying from seat to seat. The conductor asked her to calm down because she was disturbing other passengers, according to an account by Montgomery County Sheriff Joe Sampson. But the French woman, Stephanie […]
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Around 20 square miles within Washington, DC — or one-third of the nation’s capital — is monitored by acoustic sensors that help police officers identify crime scenes where gunshots may have been fired only seconds earlier. The Washington Post reported extensively on the ShotSpotter crime-fighting surveillance tool over the weekend and how the city’s Metropolitan […]
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As reported by Globalpost.com, the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama has reopened again after it was evacuated on Sunday, when workers there found a note containing a bomb threat. An airport employee found a note in the men’s bathroom around 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, prompting an immediate evacuation as well as a shutdown of roads […]
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Usatoday.com reported that, tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the streets Monday outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran in the biggest anti-American rally in years, a show of support for hard-line opponents of President Hassan Rouhani’s historic outreach to Washington. Read Article
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As reported by Chicagotribune.com,a gunman with a high-powered rifle opened fire at a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport today, according to reports. There were multiple victims, but their conditions were not known. The gunman was shot by law enforcement. The airport said on social media that there was “an incident underway at LAX.” Watch […]
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