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DC transportation exhibit offers history lesson
The schoolchildren piled into the rail car in downtown Washington and looked up and down as the lights flickered and the floor rumbled. "We're here!" one of the young passengers shouted, all of them heading for the door like seasoned commuters. The rail car never actually moved, nor did the ...
Kansas City museum raising cash to fly 'Connie'
The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air travel. The Kansas City museum's Constellation, or "Connie," is one of only a handful of the ...
Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean
Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using ...
Miami Art Museum gets $15 million gift
A new art museum being built in South Florida has received a $15 million gift from an anonymous donor Miami Art Museum officials announced Friday that they have received $12 million in cash and more than $3 million in art. The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/14yvvCn ) reports that the money comes ...
Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island
Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to back an initiative aimed at expanding protection for the Caribbean's imperiled coasts and waters. The "Caribbean Challenge" calls for special protected zones along at least 20 percent ...
Hangout Fest opens Friday in Gulf Shores
It's a big weekend for live music on the Alabama coast, with the third annual Hangout Festival opening Friday on the public beach in Gulf Shores. Organizers say three-day festival passes are sold out, but single-day tickets are still available. Started during the BP oil spill in 2010, the Hangout ...
NYC's new Refinery Hotel draws on hat factory past
A new boutique hotel in Manhattan's Garment District is paying homage to its past as a hat factory. The Refinery hotel at 63 W. 38th St. opened this week in a 1912 building that once housed a hat factory on its upper floors. The independently owned hotel with 197 rooms ...
Plans to fund Okla. pop culture museum still alive
Backers of a museum devoted to Oklahoma popular culture said they're still hopeful state lawmakers will approve $40 million for the project before adjourning in two weeks. The Tulsa-based museum, dubbed OKPOP, has been in the works for years and would be dedicated to Oklahoma authors, musicians and actors, and ...
Canada trying to lure Silicon Valley tech workers
The Canadian government has launched an aggressive campaign to lure Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated by U.S. visa policies northward, just as Congress wrestles with a long-sought overhaul of America's immigration system. Canada's minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, arrived in the San Francisco Bay area Friday for ...
Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. ...
Hope College in western Michigan plans new museum
Hope College in western Michigan announced Friday that it's planning a new art museum to provide exhibition space and house the college's permanent collection. A groundbreaking for the Kruizenga Art Museum in Holland is planned for May 24 at a site northwest of the De Pree Art Center. The project ...
Pa. park's plans cause fireworks from neighbors
There are some fireworks in an eastern Pennsylvania community because of an amusement park's summer plans. Dorney Park in Allentown wants to have a seven-minute fireworks show every night for eight weeks. Some people living in the near the park say that is a lot of noise and there are ...
House immigration group reaches a deal
A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities. It came after months of secretive talks among the four Republican and four Democratic House members had seemed to stall in ...
Business Highlights
___ Wal-Mart's 1Q profit, sales disappoint NEW YORK (AP) — The first few months of the year were tough for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The world's largest retailer reported Thursday that its first-quarter profit edged up just slightly, and the company struggled with a sales slump in its namesake business during ...
Hello muddah? Not everyone loved sleepaway camp
When the school year ends a few weeks from now, millions of kids will head off to sleepaway camp for a summer filled with color wars, kayaking and bunk life. Most will have a great time, some will make friends for life, and many will look back on the experience ...
Correction: New Virus story
In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the 20 deaths attributed to the virus. There have been no deaths reported in France and Qatar, only in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, ...
INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration
To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an ...
Greek strikes halt air travel
Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labor unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures and a government decision to cancel a teachers' strike. Flights resumed after being grounded between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. (0900-1300 GMT), when air traffic controllers joined the ...
Dubuque students may miss planned trip to New York
Dozens of students, parents and staff from a Dubuque high school are unsure what to do after a Cedar Rapids travel agency closed without making arrangements for a planned trip to New York despite about $30,000 in advance payments. The Telegraph Herald reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/10StwKM ) that an attorney representing ...
Everglades restoration marks important milestone
There's finally a crack in the dam blocking the natural flow of water into Everglades National Park. The Tamiami Trail that traverses South Florida's wetlands has kept water from flowing into the park for more than 80 years. On Wednesday, a backhoe broke through a 1-mile stretch of the old ...
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