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  • The Mayan Beach Garden Inn is on Mexico's Caribbean coast near the border with Belize. With just seven rooms, it's ideal for travelers who want a beautiful beach without crowds. (Associated Press)

    Splendid beachside isolation can be had in Mexico

    By Kim Curtis - Associated Press

    My criteria for a vacation were simple: Warm weather. Postcard beaches. Clear, sunny skies. Long, languid days to immerse myself in beach books. A price that wouldn’t break the bank. And most of all, solitude. Published March 22, 2012 Comments

  • The grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia is seen on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. (Associated Press)

    3 more bodies found in wreckage of Italian cruise ship

    By Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

    Searchers on Thursday found three more bodies in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off the Italian coast, an official said, raising the number discovered to 28 and leaving four still missing. Published March 22, 2012 Comments

  • **FILE** Airline passengers go through the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Aug. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)

    FAA looking at easing use of devices on runway waits

    By Joan Lowy - Associated Press

    The government is taking a tentative step toward making it easier for airlines to allow passengers to use personal electronic devices such as tablets, e-readers and music players during takeoffs and landings. Published March 19, 2012 Comments

  • ** FILE ** The Airbus A380 giant jetliner (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

    U.S. sides with China against airlines emissions tax

    By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

    The European Union’s plan to impose a tax on international airlines for their carbon emissions has run into fierce head winds, with the Obama administration joining China, India and other powers in a growing global drive to force the EU to back down. Published March 15, 2012 Comments

  • Transportation and Security Administration workers screen passengers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last month. Some air travelers over the age of 75 will soon get a break at airport security checkpoints under a test program. (Associated Press)

    Some air travelers over 75 will get break at checkpoints

    By Jason Keyser - Associated Press

    Some air travelers over the age of 75 will soon get a break at airport security checkpoints under a test program announced Wednesday that could allow them to keep their shoes and light jackets on and skip pat-downs. Published March 14, 2012 Comments

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  • Brazil's new consumer class flocks to U.S. to shop

    By Gisela Salomon and Jenny Barchfield - Associated Press

    The overstuffed bags filling Fernando Mello's luggage cart wobbled precariously as the gym owner made his way home one morning through Rio's international airport. Navigating the terminal, Mr. Mello was part of a horde of other Brazilian travelers returning with loot found in the strip malls and discount outlets of south Florida.

  • Artist Heizer's big rock rolls to Calif. museum

    By John Rogers - Associated Press

    A big rock that has been lumbering across Southern California for the past week and a half has arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

  • FAA forecast: High air fares most of this decade

    By Joan Lowy - Associated Press

    Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday.

  • Polish ski resort rises from dead of winter

    By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

    Just a few years ago, winter was a dead season for the Kotelnica Mountain in Poland, quiet under a quilt of snow.

  • TSA chief: Screeners will keep targeting high-risk travelers

    By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

    Airport security screeners will increasingly focus on high-risk passengers, although unpopular screening measures — like random pat-downs, even for grannies and babies — are likely to continue for the time being, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Monday.

  • Bin there, stuffed that: Airlines to boost overhead carry-on room

    By Joshua Freed - Associated Press

    Fliers can stop sharpening their elbows. Overhead bins are getting bigger.

  • Some upset about Jeffrey Dahmer walking tour in Milwaukee

    By Carrie Antlfinger - Associated Press

    A marketing group in Wisconsin wants to give walking tours of the bar where serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer met and hung out with some of his victims.

  • Storms wreck Ind. towns, kill 24 in 3 states

    By Bruce Schreiner and Ken Kusmer - Associated Press

    Powerful storms leveled small towns in southern Indiana, transforming entire blocks of homes into piles of debris, tossing school buses into a home and a restaurant and causing destruction so severe it was difficult to tell what was once there. As night fell, dazed residents shuffled through town, some looking for relatives, while rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors. Without power, the only light in town came from cars that crawled down the streets.

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