Travel
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Ghost stories and tours abound in Southern citiesOct 29, 2013 5:30 am - PENSACOLA, Fla. — A doctor who used a guillotine to perform amputations, a wealthy family marred by insanity and a man murdered inside his sealed and boarded-up mansion ...
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Ellis Island museum reopens after Sandy's floodsOct 28, 2013 6:00 pm - NEW YORK — The island that ushered millions of immigrants into the United States and became a monument to its mosaic of ancestries reopened to visitors Monday for the fi...
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Sandy storm survivors’ photos make up NYC exhibitOct 27, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — With her home on Long Island’s Long Beach swamped by Superstorm Sandy’s unyielding surge, Christina Tisi-Kramer pointed her camera outside and captured an ima...
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Charming Southern cities: Savannah and CharlestonOct 27, 2013 6:00 am - SAVANNAH, Ga. — In “Gone With the Wind,” Scarlett O'Hara, comparing Savannah and Charleston to the much younger city of Atlanta, called the older locales “aged grandmoth...
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On the road: Chicago's MCA offers First Friday hip-hopOct 26, 2013 6:00 am - Chicago Boo with a view Add the fear of heights to your Halloween list of spooks when you take the kids to trick-or-treat 1,000 feet up. On Halloween, children...
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Mayoral politics threaten NYC horse-carriage ridesOct 25, 2013 9:27 am - NEW YORK — Horse-drawn carriage rides through the streets of New York — an experience nearly as old as the city itself — could be clip-clopping to a halt. Animal activis...
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Largest signed baseball collection on displayOct 25, 2013 6:00 am - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle signed a baseball for Dennis Schrader in 1956, when Schrader was a 9-year-old boy attending a spring trainin...
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Stranded at O’Hare? Need a massage? No problemOct 24, 2013 7:31 am - CHICAGO — Air travelers might actually want to get stranded at O’Hare International Airport now that the Chicago airport has its first spa. The international terminal’s ...
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A new idea for space tourism: Balloon over rocketOct 24, 2013 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — The latest space tourism venture depends more on hot air than rocket science. World View Enterprises announced plans Tuesday to send people up in a capsule,...
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5 free things in San Diego, beyond surf and sandOct 24, 2013 6:00 am - SAN DIEGO — The home of SeaWorld and a world-famous zoo offers plenty of cash-burning attractions, but San Diego also has awe-inspiring sites that are as free as the sea...