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Rolling Stones exhibit opening in Cleveland

Over the years, curators at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum have occasionally had trouble coaxing reluctant stars to help put together major exhibitions. Not so with members of The Rolling Stones, who made time in their packed anniversary schedule to help. "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of ...

In this May 21, 2013 photo, a large banner for a new exhibit, "Rolling Stones 50 Years of Satisfaction", greets visitors in the main atrium at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.  The exhibit opens on Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Rolling Stones exhibit opening in Cleveland

Over the years, curators at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum have occasionally had trouble coaxing reluctant stars to help put together major exhibitions. Not so with members of The Rolling Stones, who made time in their packed anniversary schedule to help. "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of ...

Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage

A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under protest from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance," issued a ...

A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York,  Wednesday, May 22, 2013.  A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New York companies continue to show visitors,  many of them foreigners who know of the Bronx only from movies, the grittiest part of the city's poorest borough. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage

A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under protest from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance," issued a ...

Workers with shovels run to the staging area for a rescue operation underway on the West Side of St. Paul, Minn.,  Wednesday, May 22, 2013. One child on a school field trip was killed and another remained unaccounted after a gravel slide Wednesday in a St. Paul park that’s popular with children looking for fossils, authorities said.   (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Scott Takushi)  MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE OUT

1 child dead, 1 missing in Minn. park landslide

A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing. The landslide at Lilydale Regional Park swept over a group of children from Peter ...

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2009, file photo, NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick talks to the media during a news conferenceat the Homestead-Miami International Speedway in Homestead, Fla.  The late NASCAR matriarch Anne B. France and car owners Richard Childress and Hendrick are among the nominees for the next class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, which will be announced Wednesday night, May 22, 2013.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Family Ties: Jarrett, Petty enter NASCAR hall

NASCAR honored a pair of its most famous and successful families with inductions into the Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Past champion Dale Jarrett joined father Ned in the hall and master mechanic Maurice "Chief" Petty became the fourth member of one of NASCAR's most royal families to be selected ...

Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers

American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory and use the loyalty points to help medical patients and students travel off the islands when necessary. Hawaiian Airlines agreed to the plan that takes effect on June 1, American ...

Cruise industry announces passenger bill of rights

The cruise industry said Wednesday that it's adopting a passenger bill of rights that guarantees the "safety, comfort and care" of guests. The bill of rights promises, among other things, full refunds for trips that are canceled due to mechanical failure, and a backup power source on every ship to ...

Artist Jack Zajac gives an interview about his small bronze sculpture, right, during a press preview of the exhibit  "Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy," during a press preview at the Dallas Museum of Art Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Dallas exhibit reunites art JFK saw before death

Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling "reverential." Zajac's small sculpture of a bound goat was among a collection of impressive artwork that decorated the president's Fort Worth ...

NM students could win prizes for reading books

New Mexico children could win a trip to Disney's Animal Kingdom or ride in a hot air balloon with Gov. Susana Martinez under a program that state officials hope will encourage students to read when they aren't in school. The governor announced several contests on Wednesday that offer prizes to ...

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