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<p>A flight had to be diverted to Denver after a passenger allegedly tried to open an exterior door of a United jet while it was in flight Saturday afternoon, according to officials at Denver International Airport.</p>
<p>DIA spokesman Jeff Green said the incident happened on United Flight 223 traveling from Washington Dulles International Airport to Las Vegas.</p>
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During the Summer of 2007, I was approached by a group of concerned veterans in regard to a problem they had run into. These men had been attempting to get approval to have a USO-style facility put into the local airport. Without such a facility, soldiers traveling through McCarran Airport have had to sleep on the floor while waiting for a connecting flight—sometimes up to 3 nights in a row. Their food costs are as high as $20 for a dinky sandwich and a small bottle of juice. The average soldier is paid roughly just a bit over minimum wage....
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Lazy Clark County Nevada Voters!! Every election year some of us elect the same person in office. Some of us do this because we are lazy. We go with name recognition; we don’t really take a good look at the person we elect. It’s time for Clark County Nevada voters to take a stand, despite your political party we need to put country first. We need to take candidates personal views into consideration. When someone is a candidate for one office he or she most likely excel to a higher office or use their elected position to influence other candidates...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police captured a more than 100-pound mountain lion in a Las Vegas neighborhood Wednesday, authorities said. Police and animal control officials tracked the animal to a back yard after it eluded capture early in the day and then reappeared Wednesday afternoon. The animal was tranquilized and captured without incident, Las Vegas police spokesman Bill Cassell said. It was handed over the Nevada Division of Wildlife and will be released in a less densely populated environment, he said. No injuries were reported. Authorities estimated the mountain lion weighed between 100 pounds and 110 pounds. It was first...
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972: TWA jet explodes at Las Vegas airport A bomb has exploded aboard a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 at Las Vegas airport. No-one was injured in the blast which destroyed the cockpit of the aircraft as it stood empty on the tarmac. The explosion happened hours after an anonymous phone caller threatened TWA with a series of bomb attacks unless £760,000 was handed over. The caller instructed airport officials at Kennedy Airport in New York to go to a locker where they found a note, which said there would be explosions at six hourly intervals on four of the...
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An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat. The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning. A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum. "He was secreting these items in a body cavity and...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Officials detained an Iraqi man during a security scare at Los Angeles International airport on Tuesday but said a suspicious object found in a body cavity search did not pose a threat. The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, was detained at passenger screening at the airport just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The bomb squad was called as a precaution and authorities said they found wires in his clothing and a magnet inside a lower body cavity. The man was preparing to board a US Airways flight to Philadelphia. The...
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2006 – Las Vegas will remember those lost in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with a Freedom Walk on Sept. 9. “We hope this will become an annual commemoration of those we lost on 9/11,” said Courtney Wroblewski, a special events planner with the city. The 2.2-mile loop will begin and end at the Kellogg Zaher Sports Complex at 7901 Washington Ave. Walkers, including Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman and Councilman Larry Brown, will step out beginning at 7:30 a.m. Las Vegas planners called the walk a time to reflect on the lives lost on...
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