Vacation News Archive

'Vacation day saved Sago miner?s life (The Charleston Gazette)
PHILIPPI ? If not for the holiday weekend, 56-year-old Sago miner Tom Watson would have been in the Upshur County mine at the time of the explosion last Monday that claimed the lives of 12 of his colleagues.

'Enjoy Luxury South Lake Tahoe Vacation Rentals At 40% Off (PR Web via Yahoo! News)
Lake Tahoe, CA / NV (PRWEB) January 6, 2005 -- Lake Tahoe Lodging, Inc. offers 40 percent off on mid-week Lake Tahoe Vacation rentals with a 2 night minimum stay.

'Man's 'no-fly' listing ruins vacation (UPI)
TORONTO, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A Canadian family's Mexican vacation ended before it began when the husband's name turned up on a U.S. no-fly list. Sami Kahil was detained Thursday when the family's charter flight landed in Acapulco, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported.

'Clerk seeks to free frozen vacation pay (The Tribune Chronicle)
WARREN - The attorney for a woman accused of pilfering more than $17,000 from Warren Municipal Court has filed action with the Ohio Supreme Court, demanding release of her accumulated sick and vacation pay that the city froze after charges were filed.

'Six Kalisz aides getting $74,000 for unused vacation (South Coast Today)
NEW BEDFORD -- The city is set to pay $74,000 in vacation and sick time payouts to six members of former Mayor Frederick M. Kalisz Jr.'s staff. The staffers were laid off on Jan. 1, the last day of Mayor Kalisz's tenure as mayor, and were not hired by Mayor Scott W. Lang.

'National news (Houston Chronicle)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. ? Activist Cindy Sheehan told supporters at a peace forum Saturday that troops would get out of Iraq if millions of U.S. citizens took the simple step that she did outside President Bush's vacation home last summer.

'Travelers who book through an online agent don't always get a fair shake; fly, ritzy little robin, fly! (US News & World Report)
Michele Cennamo was planning to surprise her cousin by taking her on a weeklong vacation in the Bahamas for her 60th birthday last fall. The Manhattan legal assistant had reserved a room at the Atlantis, a high-rise hotel on Paradise Island, through Expedia, the online travel site. "I was looking forward to walking along the beach and hanging out by the pool," she says.

'Dream vacation ends in tragedy on mountain (Boston Globe)
Wade and Betty Orrick Sapp left Melrose the day after Christmas to embark on the vacation of a lifetime: A climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the ''roof of Africa."

'Sheehan Urge Supporters to Take Action (AP via Yahoo! News)
Activist Cindy Sheehan told supporters at a peace forum Saturday that troops would get out of Iraq if millions of U.S. citizens took the simple step that she did outside President Bush's vacation home last summer.

'Sophomores bear down during vacation week (The Sacramento Bee)
inter Vacation has stretched into week two for most students in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

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