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June 19, 2013

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  • United adds spending requirement for elite status

    06/18/13 03:15 PM

    CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is making it a little harder to get a higher frequent-flier status. That status used to require flying 25,000 miles per year. Now, United is adding a requirement for at least $2,500 in spending, too, to qualify for status in its MileagePlus program. Most...

  • Fire restrictions imposed for S. Utah, N. Ariz.

    06/18/13 02:00 PM

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials are imposing campfire restrictions on parts of Utah and Arizona that are under a red-flag wildfire warning. Starting Thursday, federal and state officials say they will impose the restrictions on public lands in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Fireworks...

  • Mich. law protects millage money for zoo, museum

    06/18/13 01:30 PM

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Calley has signed legislation to keep Michigan communities from holding back millage money that voters approved for the Detroit Zoo and Detroit Institute of Arts. Some revenues from those millages have been diverted for other purposes in some...

  • Argentine cash controls bring bargains, headaches

    06/18/13 12:48 PM

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Brazilian visitors gawk in wonder as they stroll past shop windows along touristy Florida street in the Argentine capital. The jackets, the shoes — they're all so cheap when your purse is stuffed with black-market money. Visitors who turn to the streets...

  • Boeing nets orders for 102 stretch 787s

    06/18/13 11:00 AM

    LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Boeing Co. won major orders from five customers for a stretched-out version of its popular 787 Dreamliner jet at the Paris Air Show Tuesday, further evidence of a strengthening market for more expensive long-haul jets. Boeing announced the formal launch of its 787-10...

  • Adventure of Everest begins at tiny Nepal airstrip

    06/18/13 12:31 AM

    LUKLA, Nepal (AP) — As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst out in applause. They do that for nearly every safe landing at the often terrifying airport at the gateway to Mount Everest. At an altitude of 2,843 meters (9,325 feet), the small airstrip here...

  • Thrifty says offer of free rental car was mistake

    06/17/13 07:45 PM

    DALLAS (AP) — Thrifty Car Rental says it's sorry, but many customers who were offered a free one-day rental won't be getting that after all. The company says the offer was intended for a select group of top customers but was sent accidentally to many other people. A spokeswoman for Thrifty...

  • NY lawmakers push Amtrak for bike baggage cars

    06/17/13 05:01 PM

    RENSSELAER, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers want Amtrak to add baggage cars to its passenger trains that would be capable of carrying bicycles. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and state Sens. Betty Little of Warren County and Brad Hoylman of Manhattan said Monday such a move would get more visitors...

  • Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

    06/17/13 05:00 PM

    Green Bay Press-Gazette, June 15 Obama's 2nd term stumbles out of gate The Affordable Care Act could make or break President Barack Obama's second term and ultimately put a stamp on his legacy. Beset by a Congress that cannot agree on anything and a dizzying supply of scandals and...

  • Correction: Editorial Rdp story

    06/17/13 03:45 PM

    In the South Carolina editorial roundup for June 11, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an editorial about the Legislature was by the Aiken Standard. It was The State newspaper. A corrected version of the story is below: South Carolina editorial roundup Summary of recent South...


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