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Travel Solutions: Nonrefundable ticket means just that - unless writer helps

Q: I'm trying to help my sister get a refund on her daughter's nonrefundable airline ticket. Her daughter went to Spain in January as an excha…

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Photos: Giant leatherback sea turtles

Photos: Giant leatherback sea turtles

The giant leatherback sea turtle is making a comeback in the Caribbean, and that's sparking a tourist boom in long-stagnant fishing towns. The…

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San Francisco newspaper says Tucson is cool

San Francisco newspaper says Tucson is cool

Chronicle compares Tucson's hipness to Portland, Ore.

May 17, 2013 11:30 am Comments

Sky Spy: Venus returns to the night sky

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May 16, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Monroe, Wis.: Home to the stinkiest cheese in the world

Monroe, Wis.: Home to the stinkiest cheese in the world

MONROE, Wis. - The sign above the bar in Baumgartner's Cheese Store and Tavern warns visitors about the perils of sampling the $3.25 house spe…

May 12, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Museum of the Confederacy opens Gettysburg exhibit

Museum of the Confederacy opens Gettysburg exhibit

RICHMOND, Va. - Among the swords, the wrenching letters home and the haunting photographs in the Museum of the Confederacy's new exhibit on Ge…

May 12, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Travel Solutions: Wyndham should've fixed smoking-room problem at Days Inn

Q: I have a concern that I tried addressing with a specific Days Inn and with Wyndham, which owns Days Inn, but have not received a response. …

May 12, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Sky Spy: Moon watch

New moon is today, and there is a solar annular eclipse visible in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.

May 09, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Historic Miracle Mile area shows off its revitalization with tours, open house

Historic Miracle Mile area shows off its revitalization with tours, open house

They say the neon lights are bright on Miracle Mile again.

May 09, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Street art blossoms in Buenos Aires

Street art blossoms in Buenos Aires

In most major cities, street artists create their works under cover of darkness, spray-painting their graffiti quickly to elude arrest. Not so…

May 06, 2013 3:04 pm Photos

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Hollywood and vine: Wineries with celebrity ties

Hollywood and vine: Wineries with celebrity ties

HEALDSBURG, Calif. - Sometimes visitors to MacMurray Ranch, the 1,500-acre spread owned by movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray for a half-centur…

May 05, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Travel Solutions: Cruise line was right to insist ailing passenger leave ship

Q: We were recently scheduled to sail on a seven-day Carnival cruise to Mexico. A few minutes after we boarded in Long Beach, Calif., I had ho…

May 05, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Fairy tale Fashion: Pima Community College readies for sixth annual student showcase

Fairy tale Fashion: Pima Community College readies for sixth annual student showcase

In the end, Pima Community College's fairy-tale-themed fashion show will be fanciful and fun, but getting there has been anything but a fantas…

May 02, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Neo Malaysian Kitchen puts food first

Neo Malaysian Kitchen puts food first

Neo Malaysian Kitchen has lemak.

May 02, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Sky Spy: Big Dipper, its neighbors light up the night sky

Moon Watch

May 02, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Pets available for adoption

Pets available for adoption

Find your BFF at one of Tucson's shelters and rescue groups. These groups also need volunteers and donations.

May 02, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Photos: Easing travel for the upper crust

Photos: Easing travel for the upper crust

Just as they've made first class more enjoyable with new seats, tastier meals and bigger TVs, airlines are focusing on easing the misery of ai…

May 01, 2013 1:20 pm Photos

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5 free things in Cincinnati, from bridges to parks

5 free things in Cincinnati, from bridges to parks

CINCINNATI - With dueling nicknames of the Queen City for its beauty and Porkopolis for its love of, well, pork, Cincinnati cannot be pigeonholed.

April 28, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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This time, Cyclovia will go linear

This time, Cyclovia will go linear

Those who participated in the first 2013 Cyclovia Tucson event earlier this month will find some distinct differences with this year's second …

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Adopt a friend

Adopt a friend

Find your BFF at one of Tucson's shelters and rescue groups. These groups also need volunteers and donations.

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Cinco de Mayo 10K a Tucson tradition

Cinco de Mayo 10K a Tucson tradition

Don Branaman was new to running when the Cinco de Mayo 10K got its start 33 years ago.

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Comments

Sky Spy: Look north, find 2 stars with hard-to-spell names

Tonight look toward the southeast around 9 p.m. to see the bright full moon low in the sky. Saturn will just above it.

April 25, 2013 12:00 am Comments

This time, Cyclovia will go linear

This time, Cyclovia will go linear

Those who participated in the first 2013 Cyclovia Tucson event earlier this month will find some distinct differences with this year's second …

April 24, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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Treasures revealed in a midtown Tucson backyard

Treasures revealed in a midtown Tucson backyard

Jack Klein was a beloved physician who opened South Tucson's first medical practice after moving to town in 1948. For 30 years, the civic-mind…

April 21, 2013 12:00 am Photos

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