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  • Capt. Polk and the flag of the 12th Regiment Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 7:10AMBastrop, La. — History records the 12th Louisiana Regiment fought in several key battles of the American Civil War and finally surrendered in April 1865 at Greensboro, N.C.
  • Tour Review: A Walk in Walt's Footsteps Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:18AMAnnemarie Moody reviews one of the most popular Disneyland guided tours
  • A weekend in New Orleans, five years later Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 1:17PMSipping a cool cocktail and listening to Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown at Irvin M
  • Trump(R) Hotel Collection Offers Guests an Exclusive Chance to Win a Trip for Two to New York for the Season Finale of ... Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 12:37PMNEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - August 25, 2010) - Trump® Hotel Collection , the next generation of luxury hospitality, marks the Fall 2010 return of the hit television series " The Apprentice " with an exclusive opportunity: guests may identify a hotel associate who has provided exceptional service during a stay at any of its hotels -- currently two in New York , and one each in Chicago , Las Vegas ...
  • Nashville and Charlotte fighting for civic supremacy Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 12:44AMCities wage unending competition to be No. 2 in the New South More
  • Travel books: NY, D.C., and Black Hills Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 12:34PMTravel books: New York surprises, motorcycle tours, the Black Hills and the ins and outs of Washington, D.C.
  • CNN Student News Transcript: August 19, 2010 Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 8:04PMAugust 19, 2010
  • Senior Power : A Conversation With Two Old-Timers… Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 12:28PMOld-timer is a noun used informally to refer to (a) an elderly person, and (b) a person with considerable tenure or experience in a given place or activity. Recently I met with two senior citizens who have retired from positions of leadership and responsibility at City and County levels.
  • Portsmouth area community calendar Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 1:07AMToday in Portsmouth - Music and movement drop-in classes: for infants, toddlers, preschoolers will be held today, Aug. 16, from 9 to 9:45 a.m. $10 for one child, $2 additional children. Classes are held at Music Together of Portsmouth, 95 Brewery Lane,...
  • Going OUt Guide for Aug. 16, 2010 Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 11:00PMYouTube is kind of an overwhelming place. For every great video -- the slightly impaired man with flip-flop troubles at Coachella, bewildered little David after the dentist, Cookie Monster's rendition of "Chocolate Rain" -- there are probably 100 home movies that make you want to scream, "Your cat... Travel and Tourism - Travel Guides - United States - e-book - e-reader
  • A weekend in New Orleans, five years later Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 3:55PMEditor’s note
  • Augmented reality city guides for Android users in the US Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 4:04AMLonely Planet is set to embed augmented reality features into new, Android versions of its mobile city guide apps, overlaying place-of-interest information on pictures seen through travelers’ cellphone cameras.
  • Matthew Jacob: Diners Push Back Against Molecular, Trend-Chasing Food Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 10:06PMHave we moved beyond the era of "molecular gastronomy" and pomegranate pretentiousness? Can we speak in past tense of the Foam Decade? Let's hope so.
  • Travel Briefs | Comair fined, virtual tour guide and more Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:49PMFederal officials are fining a regional air carrier owned by Delta Air Lines $275,000 for violating regulations on bumping passengers from overbooked flights.
  • Where to cool off in and around New Orleans this summer Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:04AMLocal pools and water parks help take the heat out of summer.
  • NFL Player and League Capsules: Jets' Jenkins dropping weight while eating cookies Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 12:26AMNEW YORK (AP) — Kris Jenkins is dropping pounds by eating cookies — oatmeal raisin, chocolate. Six of them every day. Since May, the New York Jets' hefty nose tackle has shed 20 pounds, putting him at a svelte 365.
  • Celebrity Sitings: Brushes With Fame at Knoxville Restaurants Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:05AMKnoxville's brushes with fame! Now you can enjoy the vicarious thrill of knowing that you may have at one time sat in the very same chair that a celebrity’s bottom used in a local restaurant. Yes, we have tales of big-time stars dining in Knoxville eateries. Find out what they ordered and what they said to their servers! Were they nice, or were they jerks? Jack Neely and Rose Kennedy get the dirt.
  • 3 to be arraigned for police shootings after Hurricane Katrina (The Starting Point) Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:18AMThe Starting Point - The Starting Point is a preview of the stories we expect to cover today and a snapshot of the news that occurred overnight.
  • Louisiana Launches New iPhone App for Louisiana's African American Heritage Trail Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 1:05PMThe Louisiana Office of Tourism recently launched a new iPhone app for Louisiana's African American Heritage Trail at the ESSENCE Music Festival in New Orleans. This is the first app of its kind for tourism in Louisiana, and visitors attending the festival were the first to experience its features.
  • Atchafalaya Voices Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 6:19AMEarly historians noted in The Emigrants Guide, written by William Darby and published in 1818, the most prominent route of travel by land was the western route. It was the roadway that connected New Orleans with Mexico; it became known as the Spanish Trail. Sometime later and before 1822, according to the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, the U.S. government constructed a road (at great expense ...
  • An insider's guide to training camp 2010 Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:11AMFOXBORO — Few opportunities to enjoy professional sports come as cheap as a trip to Patriots Place for training camp with the New England Patriots. Parking and admission are free. It's a fan's one chance to nudge up tight on their football heroes, maybe even get a shot to say hello after practice.
  • BP Well To Stay Sealed As Storm Moves In Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 6:43AMAs Tropical Storm Bonnie approaches, vessels are prepared for evacuation. Also, during an investigative hearing, BP is accused of cutting corners. Reassured by a week of intense monitoring, federal officials Thursday said they planned to leave the damaged BP well sealed despite evacuating vessels ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie, which was bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Meet the Makers: Q&A with Chris Van Buskirk of Calliope Digital Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 11:07PMLocation: New Orleans! With plans for a sales office in New York. Platforms: iPhone and iPad coming soon, and some very occasional work on the web. Specialty genres: Sports, Travel, Education and Entertainment.Company size:4 souls on board...
  • So far, cap on oil leak holding Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 11:35AMNEW ORLEANS - Engineers kept vigil today over the massive cap holding back oil from BP's busted Gulf well, their eyes glued to monitors in a faraway control room that displayed pressure readings, temperature gauges and underwater images.
  • Readings from capped oil well puzzle experts WNN Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 10:40AMAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS — In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday, trying to determine whether BP’s capped oil well was holding tight or in danger of springing a new leak.
  • BP, Scientists Not Sure If Well Cap Is Working Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 10:34AMIn a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP's capped oil well was holding tight. Halfway through a critical 48-hour window, the signs were promising but far from conclusive.
  • BP investigates well puzzle Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 10:19AMBP Engineers and scientists are monitoring the massive cap holding back oil from the damaged Gulf well to asses what to do next.
  • Scientists try to make sense of well puzzle Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 9:12AMIn a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers huddled over puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine if BP’s capped oil well was holding tight.
  • Looking great Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 3:44AMBOSTON - State's list of top places filled with Central Mass. sites, including Broad Meadow Brook
  • All aboard the Canadian train Sunday, July 11, 2010 @ 11:32PMZipping across the prairies on a spring afternoon, leaving the regal Rocky Mountains behind, is another iconic symbol of life north of the 49th parallel - VIA Rail's flagship luxury liner, The Canadian.
  • How to manage personal finances in a post-recession world Sunday, July 11, 2010 @ 5:39AMI know things seem to be improving a bit in the economy, but after the events of the last year or so, I'm still feeling uneasy. How can I be better financially prepared in the future? Many economists and government...
  • BOOK/MAGAZINE: Massachusetts Stays Cool with Summer Jazz Guide Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 4:20PMBoston, MA--Massachusetts has released its second annual MassJazz Travel Guide, a round-up of jazz festivals, concerts and musical events taking place across the Bay State from July through October 2010. The 32-page magazine is available free to visitors and residents at tourism kiosks, in hotels and nightclubs, and on college campuses...
  • LPD’s Stewart joins PSN National Board Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 10:46AMLAUREL — Laurel Police Department Deputy Chief Tyrone Stewart has been selected to join the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) National Board.
  • Another world defined by community not corporations Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 12:59AMA small group of poverty and indigenous scholars from POOR Magazine, bleeding internally from our own wounds of eviction, landlessness, budget genocide, racism, po'lice brutality, incarceration and violence, arrived in Detroit on a hot Saturday in June to attend the U.S. Social Forum. Leaving, again we passed the empty homes, silent neighborhoods and shuttered businesses and yet this time I saw ...
  • To Memphis for the Music – and the Magic Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 10:23AMJulia Reed spends a few days re-discovering the Home of the Blues in Part One of this two-part series Julia Reed | 07/06/2010 11:00 am All my life I’ve had to explain to people that where I grew up, the Mississippi Delta, is not really a delta at all, but a diamond-shaped alluvial floodplain with the richest soil in the world. You can find it on a topographical map, but the writer David Cohn ...
  • Another world defined by community not corporations Sunday, July 4, 2010 @ 1:12AMA small group of poverty and indigenous scholars from POOR Magazine, bleeding internally from our own wounds of eviction, landlessness, budget genocide, racism, po'lice brutality, incarceration and violence, arrived in Detroit on a hot Saturday in June to attend the U.S. Social Forum. Leaving, again we passed the empty homes, silent neighborhoods and shuttered businesses and yet this time I saw ...
  • Chef Sues BP Over Damages to Restaurants Selling Gulf Seafood Saturday, June 26, 2010 @ 2:32PMChef Susan Spicer, of Bayona restaurant in New Orleans and a judge on “Top Chef,” sued BP Plc for damages to restaurants that can’t access their customary supplies of fresh seafood from the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Jazz Listings Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 5:59PMA guide to selected jazz performances in the New York area.
  • Bureaucracy frustrates U.S. Gulf oil spill efforts Saturday, June 19, 2010 @ 11:57PMGRAND ISLE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Those on the front lines of the U.S. Gulf Coast oil spill say they are forced to fight two battles -- one against the crude washing into lush wetlands and another against needless bureaucracy.
  • (AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-19 21:31 Bureaucracy frustrates U.S. Gulf oil spill efforts Saturday, June 19, 2010 @ 4:01PMBy Jeffrey Jones
  • Bureaucracy frustrates Gulf oil spill efforts Saturday, June 19, 2010 @ 4:01PMReuters - Those on the front lines of the Gulf Coast oil spill say they are forced to fight two battles -- one against the crude washing into lush wetlands and another against needless bureaucracy.
  • Bureaucracy frustrates U.S. Gulf oil spill efforts Saturday, June 19, 2010 @ 3:33PMSource: Reuters * Local officials frustrated by delays, red tape * Barges halted for 24 hours for safety inspections * Military-type chain of command urged By Jeffrey Jones GRAND ISLE, Louisiana, June 19 ( ...
  • GayCities Launches a New, More Local, More Social Guide to Your Town Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 2:01AMPopular city guide and reviews site redesigned to make it easy to find your friends, connect with others and uncover the best of what's happening in your town and everywhere.
  • Hotwire Reveals Hotel Rate Report for June 2010 Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 5:21AMHotwire.com®, a leading discount travel site, today announced the results of the June 2010 Hotwire® Hotel Rate Report. This monthly report features the top 10 cities in North America where hotel rates are recovering the slowest. When combined with Hotwire's already discounted prices, the Hotel Rate Report helps guide customers to the destinations that will maximize their travel dollars. With a ...
  • Hotwire Reveals Hotel Rate Report for June 2010 Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 7:20AMWisconsin's Capitol, Madison, Debuts on the List at Number One read more
  • Hotwire Reveals Hotel Rate Report for June 2010 Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 7:04AMHotwire.com®, a leading discount travel site, today announced the results of the June 2010 Hotwire® Hotel Rate Report. This monthly report features the top 10 cities in North America where hotel rates are recovering the slowest.
  • Gulf oil spill latest: BP cut corners, documents reveal Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 9:12PMBP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive oil spill, according to documents...
  • Along Gulf coast highway, anxiety spreads with oil Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 5:34AMALONG THE GULF COAST (AP) - It's barely 5 a.m., and last night's sliver of moon still hangs in a charcoal sky as Dave Marino eases the 24-foot bayboat from the dock and into the flat, dark waters of the canal leading toward the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Fickle Oil Spill Scatters Threats Throughout Gulf Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 2:08PMThe Oil Spill Plaguing The Gulf Of Mexico Is Washing Ashore With Little Pattern, Slathering Some Areas In A Tarry Mess While Leaving Others Unscathed, And Officials Confirmed...
  • Fickle oil leaves some areas a mess, others unscathed (PHOTOS and LIVE FEED) Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 1:00PMNEW ORLEANS — Oil from the BP spill is slathering some areas in a tarry mess while leaving others unscathed, even as a device collects more and more crude gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The recently installed containment cap on...