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Ga. students' weather balloon travels 100 miles
Elementary school students in Athens launched a weather balloon that reached an altitude of nearly 97,000 feet and traveled nearly 100 miles to Sparta. The Engineering Club at Chase Elementary School released the 7-foot helium-filled balloon Tuesday. They tracked it to a dense swamp in a heavily wooded area in ...
Jet donated by Travolta being moved to Ga. museum
The military is helping move a Gulfstream jet once flown by actor John Travolta to its new home at an aviation museum in middle Georgia. Members of two maintenance squadrons based at Robins Air Force Base were scheduled to tow the G-2 private jet Sunday to the Museum of Aviation ...
Police seek missing Oregon tourist on Oahu
Honolulu police are searching for a tourist from Oregon who has been missing on Oahu since Thursday. Police said Saturday that Ivanice "Ivy" Harris was last seen Thursday talking to a man outside a bar in Waikiki and has not been seen since. Harris traveled to Hawaii from Portland with ...
Montana investigates bison deaths near Yellowstone
State veterinarians in Montana have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid fears the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic sheep. Pat Flowers of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks tells the Independent Record (http://bit.ly/113sjdu) that a veterinarian from his agency and 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 ...
Partnership looks to grow heritage tourism
The temptation is to think that what follows here is the whole story. It's not, of course. So much happened before the people who later settled in Savannah's Pin Point community ever reached the shores of Georgia's barrier islands in the 18th century, so much unfolded even before they were ...
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 ...
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