Just over a year after acquiring a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, making them the only Black hotel owners in Memphis, power couple Norland and Dr. Amina James are set to do it again. This time the serial entrepreneurs and founders of Duke Ventures are leveling up to a stunning 120-room hotel set on the picturesque backdrop of the Louisiana Bayou. And they’re bringing a whole community with them.
Howard Dicus takes a look.
An Arby's general manager was found dead after being trapped inside the walk-in freezer. According to her family, Nguyet Le entered the freezer, and the door suddenly shut behind her. During this time, no one else was in the restaurant.
A R1.2-trillion Libyan sovereign wealth fund has launched a hostile takeover bid for one of SA’s premier hospitality groups, Legacy Hotels, following a bitter boardroom fallout, putting a multibillion-rand property portfolio at stake with implications for funders.
The Saskatchewan government says it’s changing how it procures hotels for those on social assistance after a motel owned by a legislature member raised rates when the province paid. The Saskatchewan Party government says in a letter that the province must now formally obtain quotes from three hotels before securing a room for a person or family.
Ariane Gorin will succeed Peter Kern as Expedia Group's CEO effective May 13. Kern has been CEO since 2020. "Ariane Gorin is a superb executive that all of us at Expedia Group and our board have worked with for 10 years," Expedia chair and senior executive Barry Diller said in a release. "We very much wanted an internal candidate to succeed to the CEO position, and following a comprehensive search, the board determined Ariane was the best candidate given her exemplary leadership."
Hotel Owner Murdered in Sheffield, USA
A Bahamas resort where two Kentucky mothers claim they were drugged and raped by two employees said that the women’s account of what happened does not match its security footage. Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson said they were assaulted in broad daylight by staffers at Pirate’s Cove while relaxing on the beach while their Carnival Cruise ship was docked on the Grand Island in the Bahamas.
A 60-year-old Swedish swim coach tragically lost his life on Sunday morning after falling from the third floor of a hotel on Pattaya Third Road. According to authorities, Pattaya police received a report of the incident at approximately 2:06 AM on February 4th. They rushed to the scene at an unidentified hotel on Pattaya Third Road, along with a rescue team from the Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan Foundation.
Rhodes duo charged in copper theft from condemned hotel in the vacant Days Inn at Valley Plaza
Two Rhodes men are jailed in connection with thefts from the vacant Days Inn at Valley Plaza early Friday morning, and Midland city officials are concerned about the possibility of more such thefts at the condemned former hotel.
Buffalo man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for holding up seven hotels and a store in an armed robbery spree, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced. Erie County Court Judge Suzanne Maxwell Barnes also ordered Abdi Kadir, 26, to receive five years of supervision after he is released. He pleaded guilty in September to nine counts of first-degree robbery and one count of first-degree burglary.
Businesses on West Eighth that are struggling in the explosion’s wake have complained of damage to windows, plumbing and other issues that they believe the hotel owner should be responsible for. Owned and operated by Canadian developer Northland Properties, the Sandman Signature Hotel, located at 810 Houston Street, was the site of a massive explosion that left 21 injured in early January.
LAS VEGAS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - President Joe Bidenmight join Las Vegas hotel employees on a picket line if they go on strike Monday, a move that would bind him closely with another group of workers in a 2024 electionbattleground state, the union's chief told Reuters. Workers with the politically influential Nevada Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and the Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino have until early Monday to reach an agreement.
An Ohio man is facing attempted murder charges after police say he opened fire on patrons who kicked him out of a hotel bar. On Feb. 4, David Kaczynski, 41, was kicked out of CLEOH’s bar, located inside a Fairview Park Ramada hotel after he was accused of attacking a bartender, according to a news release from the Fairview Park Police Department. “Bar employees and patrons grabbed Kaczynski and threw him out of the bar after a struggle,” police said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former Overland Park business owner pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to fraud related to COVID-19 CARES Act funding. Mirza M. Reazuddin, 66, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering for falsifying an application and documents to receive more than $800,000 in federal pandemic-relief money.
Adamawa state governor, Ahmadu Fintiri has ordered hotel owners in the state to install CCTV
The IDF's Arabic spokesman published a 'birthday card' denouncing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on his 62nd birthday.
Auditors have rapped the Tokushima Prefectural Government for purchasing an "extremely expensive" sex doll to promote the city's tourism. The government's tourism policy division said it paid 424,440 Japanese yen, or $2,880, for the doll, which was used in a tourist exhibition at the Tokushima Awaodori Airport in 2017, per a Mainichi Shimbun report on Monday.
Mounties said they're still looking for another man in the robbery at the hotel at 101 Street and 87 Avenue in the city of 27,000 that borders Edmonton's northeastern limit, describing him as tall and wearing an orange sweater and a brown-and-black jacket.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officers discovered the victim shortly before 2 a.m. She was unconscious when police arrived and died a short time later. Police suspect the shooting was a homicide. Officers initially arrived at the hotel to do a welfare check on the woman, according to Las Vegas TV station KLAS.
He was President of Wynn from 2013 to 2019, during the Steve Wynn scandal. The NGCB will have to license Wooden and will likely ask him about the Wynn saga. Fontainebleau Las Vegas has seen quite the staff turnover since its opening in December 2023. Four top level execs have left in recent weeks, and now a man brought in to take the place of President might not even get his license, if some critics are to be believed.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Emergency crews responded to the Moana Surfrider Hotel Tuesday afternoon after a balcony railing collapsed. EMS said two people refused transport to the hospital. Photos from the scene showed the metal railing from one of the rooms on the sand below. It fell from around the 5th floor. Miraculously, HFD said it did not hit anyone directly.
Nebraska has reached another settlement with a major hotel chain to end a deceptive practice referred to as “drip pricing.”. Customers often don’t learn the total price of their booking—room rate plus mandatory fees—until the last page in their online booking, or sometimes until they check into the hotel.
