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  • Chicago museum celebrates 80 years with exhibit

    06/20/13 05:15 AM

    CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is celebrating its 80th year with an exhibit featuring artifacts representing "the museum's DNA." Museum officials say 80 artifacts on display range from early inventions to modern advancements. They include the 1909 Jones Live Map...

  • NH agencies, museum host travel poster competition

    06/20/13 05:15 AM

    MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The state is teaming up with Manchester's Currier Museum of Art for a poster competition that highlights what makes New Hampshire special. The museum, the Division of Travel and Tourism and the Department of Cultural Resources are asking individuals to create posters...

  • GAO says airline merger would reduce competition

    06/20/13 01:23 AM

    DALLAS (AP) — A government review finds that the merger of American Airlines and US Airways would reduce competition on more than 1,600 routes traveled by more than 53 million passengers. That's a greater loss of competition than occurred with the 2010 merger of United Airlines and...

  • Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials

    06/20/13 01:21 AM

    Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: June 18 The Star-Ledger, New Jersey, on unwillingness to make a debt deal keeps U.S. economic rebound stalled: The International Monetary Fund is that elite group of pinched-nosed accountants who have been running...

  • Judge dismisses cash-for-tickets case

    06/20/13 01:20 AM

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For more than six years, police outside Zion National Park pushed foreign tourists to pay traffic and parking tickets in cash — even following them to an ATM to demand on-the-spot payments. The practice brought felony misappropriation charges against Springdale Town...

  • Baked Alaska: Unusual heat wave hits 49th state

    06/19/13 02:46 PM

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A heat wave hitting Alaska may not rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the days of hot weather feel like a stifling oven — or a tropical paradise. With temperatures topping 80 degrees in Anchorage, and higher in other...

  • NH Children's Museum gets creative economy award

    06/19/13 02:46 PM

    DOVER, N.H. (AP) — The Children's Museum of New Hampshire has won a Creative Economy Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts. The award recognizes successful strategies, scope of impact on the creative economy and the possibility for replication in other communities. The museum...

  • Mich. Senate OKs off-road vehicles on more roads

    06/19/13 02:46 PM

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — All 83 Michigan counties could choose to allow off-road recreation vehicles on road shoulders under legislation nearing final approval in Lansing. Current law lets eight counties in the Lower Peninsula and every county in Upper Peninsula authorize off-road vehicles on...

  • Paris returns stretch of riverbank to pedestrians

    06/19/13 11:31 AM

    PARIS (AP) — Paris has given back a stretch of its riverbank to pedestrians — and just in time for summer. Mayor Bertrand Delanoe inaugurated the 2.3-kilometer (1.4 mile) stretch along the Seine River between the Royal and Alma bridges on the Left Bank on Wednesday. Once a road with buzzing...

  • Flood damages Austrian UNESCO heritage site

    06/19/13 10:46 AM

    VIENNA (AP) — A flash flood unleashed by a major thunderstorm has inundated the Austrian village of Hallstatt, which has been awarded special status by the U.N. because of its unique beauty. The storm late Tuesday turned the placid village creek into a torrent that flooded the village square,...


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