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Live Grenade Found at Washington's Dulles Airport
File photo of Dulles International Airport. (Joe Ravi/Creative Commons/CC-BY-SA 3.0) STERLING, Va. (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says it stopped a Virginia man from bringing a live smoke grenade on a flight at Dulles International Airport. (MORE: ) The TSA says the Great Falls resident was not charged and was allowed to continue on his flight to Denver. The device was confiscated. The smoke grenade was concealed under the inner lining of the man's carry-on bag. Smoke grenades and...
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Zimbabwe Resort Town on Alert After Lions Kill 2
(Thinkstock) HARARE, Zimbabwe — Wildlife rangers in Zimbabwe put the northern resort town of Kariba on full alert Wednesday after rogue lions mauled to death two people near a suburb there. The National Parks and Wildlife Authority said fliers were being handed out in the town and volunteers were using a loudspeaker to caution townspeople on the dangers of lion attacks on the shores of Lake Kariba, a man-made hydroelectric dam popular for fishing and tourism. It said one man...
Colorado County Sees Tourism in Historic Silver Mine
This 2010 photo provided by Hinsdale County shows the assay office of the historic Ute-Ulay mine near Lake City, Colo., in the spring of 2010. (AP Photo/Kristie Borchers) DENVER — A contaminated 19th century silver mining camp could become a bigger tourism draw for a sparsely populated, high-alpine county in southwest Colorado's San Juan Mountains. Commissioner Stan Whinnery hopes turning the Ute-Ulay mill site, near Lake City, into a cleaned up public site instead of a private one will lure...
787 Dreamliner Destination: Redesign
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