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“Its like a museum,” boasts Rocco, the heavily tattooed and pierced, one-named pawn broker as he gestures around the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop (713 S. Las Vegas Blvd) in Las Vegas. “But it’s better than any museum, because here you can take all the exhibits home with you!”
I have little patience for flash sale sites. But the new site EveryLodge may well bring me back into the flash sale fold. Neatly designed, it places the deals on a handy dandy map.
Yesterday, a coalition of marijuana-based businesses went to court in Holland to fight the implementation of new access laws. Under these statutes, only those who are members of marijuana clubs will be able to light up legally.
At last! Some good news from the airline industry. According to a study released today by the Swiss company SITA (an air transport communications specialist), lost luggage is at an all-time low.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after the famous ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has passed a stopgap three-month transportation bill to keep federal aid flowing to construction projects. The bill was passed Thursday largely along party lines after Republicans and Democrats traded verbal jabs over
NEW YORK (AP) - Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds. On the rooftop of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Cloud City" welcomes visitors. Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno created the 16 stainless steel-framed bubbles, acc
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cheaper gas won't be enough to get many more Americans on the road this summer. They're still too worried about their jobs and the economy. Economists and tourism experts are expecting only a small uptick in summer traveler
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Hundreds of uniformed American Airlines workers have marched to company headquarters to protest bankruptcy plans that could void their contracts. Members of the Allied Pilots Association, flight a
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration is sending information to some international airports and air carriers about possible security measures for passengers traveling to the U.S. A Homeland Security official says the
(Tarrytown, NY) -- The state's plan to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge has taken a direct hit. The federal government today denied the State Thruway Authority a two-billion dollar loan that would have helped finance building the replac
NEW YORK (AP) -- The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after the famous ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has passed a stopgap three-month transportation bill to keep federal aid flowing to construction projects. The bill was passed Thursday largely along party lines after Republicans and Democrats traded verbal jabs over
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - A passenger on a JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas that landed unexpectedly in Texas says a man she thinks was the captain was yelling about a bomb. Heidi Karg told CNN there was a lot of commotion and that she heard him s