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Sisters Donna Janse Van Rensburg, 44, and Sharon McLean, 47, from Aberdeen and 38-year-old Keith Russell, originally from Edinburgh, died in the January 2 blaze, along with Donna’s dog Joey. Police and the fire service say an investigation is still ongoing.

What should have been a festive New Year’s Eve, ended in gunfire at a Naples resort. According to Collier County Sheriff’s Office, at 3:25 p.m. on Sunday, a gunman once employed at the Port of the Islands Resort entered the lobby and shot a hotel employee. The employee died of their injuries.

About 2am on Sunday 31 December, two armed men entered a licensed premises on Days Road and threatened staff before grabbing the cash til from behind the counter. One of the suspects was armed with an axe at the time. The men fled and were last seen heading west on Oban Street. Thankfully no one was physically injured.

A man was arrested after police said he kidnapped a woman and barricaded her in a hotel room in West Valley City.. Officials responded to a Maverick gas station located in South Jordan on Thursday, where the woman reportedly told the clerk she had been kidnapped and asked to call 911.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Extell, which is the developer of the new expansion coming to Deer Valley Resort (also known as Mayflower) has donated $112,500 to various politicians that are a part of Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA). Around three-fourths of this money went towards Utah Senate President Stuart Adams or the Political Action Committees that he’s the head of.

Officers with the St. George Police Department said that this investigation began on Dec. 29 when they were dispatched to the Comfort Suites south of Red Hills Parkway on 1000 East on reports of a burglary..

Protests have not been slow in coming. The price for the night of the opening ceremony, from 26 to 27 July, could rise by 226%, according to a study published last Wednesday by the UFC-Que Choisir, a consumer association.

Apart from Pushkar police, IB is also keeping an eye on the security of Israeli tourists. The tourists have been asked to go in groups if they venture out at night and return to their hotels within 10 pm.

That is what the attorneys for the hotel say in their answer to a lawsuit filed against Bar Harbor Resort Inc. and Smith Family Partners LLC by Drexel’s mother, Dawn Pleckan. The lawsuit was filed November 2 in Richland County alleging the hotel allowed 17-year-old Drexel to stay unaccompanied with two adults who were not her legal guardians.

The 25-year-old, presently a conman and formerly a U-19 cricketer for Haryana, cheated multiple luxury hotels and resorts and even India's wicketkeeper-batsman, Rishabh Pant.

a 24-year-old woman was injured after the pre-teen tossed objects from a window, police said Saturday. Cops said the girl was in a room on the 32nd floor of the 36-story high-rise hotel on W. 44th St. when she began chucking glass objects out the hotel window onto the street below at about 5 p.m. Friday, cops said.

Carnival CEO and Chief Climate Officer Josh Weinstein discusses the outlook for bookings in 2024, the impact of geopolitical tensions and the possibility of Carnival coming back to the debt market. (Source: Bloomberg)

High surf warnings continued Friday as some residents saw the damage to their property for the first time since yesterday's large waves pounded the California coast.

Shamaz Waheed, 57, owner of Amerihost Inn and Suites in Kindom City, was arrested Tuesday by a Callaway County sheriff's deputy on suspicion of maintaining a public nuisance, according to a social media post from the Callaway County Sheriff's Office. The charge is a Class D felony in Missouri.

A 38-year-old man remains in jail facing charges that he murdered his girlfriend inside a local hotel room last August, despite his attorney’s attempts to convince a judge that she died by suicide. Juan Gonzalez-Ortega, of Oakland, faces charges that he killed Delicia Elizabeth Ojeda, a romantic interest who Gonzalez-Ortega had both accused of infidelity and threatened shortly before her death, according to prosecutors.

Arson investigators were called to an abandoned Embassy Suites on the Northwest Side after a fire broke out on the first floor. Flames were spotted just before 4 a.m. Tuesday at the building in the 7700 block of Briaridge Drive, near Interstate 10 and Callaghan Road. Deputy Chief Bryan Norris said the flames did not spread to other floors but there was smoke throughout the high-rise building. As SAFD responded, two people came out of the hotel. They were not injured, and at this time no one has been arrested.

The Vancouver Police Department told CTV News the driver was arrested for "driving-related offences.". "There is significant damage to the building but no injuries," Const. Tania Visintin said in an email.

Some 200,000 evacuated Israelis are being hosted in hotels across the country, and one of the main things they yearn for is familiar food. Chefs are rising to the challenge and adjusting their menus. Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, some 200,000 Israelis from northern and southern Israel have been evacuated from their homes and are being hosted in hotels across the country.

Five years after its scheduled opening, Baku's InterContinental Hotel finally opened its doors in 2021. Attending the opening ceremony of the hotel were President Ilham Aliyev and the first Vice President, Mehriban Aliyeva. Two years later, Abzas Media, in an investigative story, looked into the ownership of the hotel as well as the history of the land where the hotel was built.

A historic hotel destroyed after being deliberately torched is being demolished - despite the owners not yet being granted official permission to tear down the building. The Carnbooth House Hotel was targeted in a blaze earlier this year, in a fire so fierce ten fire engines were sent to the scene to tackle it.

Wyndham Visalia renews its Certified Autism CenterTM credential helping Visalia maintain its status as a Certified Autism DestinationTM. This training has boosted staff confidence as they are equipped with the resources to provide the best service and experience to every guest visiting the hotel.” - Wyndham Visalia general manager, Samantha Rummage-Mathias

A gunman was taken into custody after a shooting at a hotel in Oakland Park led to a SWAT standoff with shots fired at deputies early Wednesday, authorities said. Broward Sheriff's Office deputies responded to reports of a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale Grand Hotel at 4900 Powerline Road shortly before 1 a.m. A witness told NBC6 they heard gunshots being fired on the second floor.

Maui hotel workers from ILWU Local 142 and Unite Here Local 5, many of whom lost their homes in the fire in August, joined in a news conference, march and sign-waving Wednesday in Kaanapali.

A customer at a hotel in Australia has been left furious after staff refused to refund her for a room infested with cockroaches. The guest, who goes by the name Kitti on TikTok, visited the Koala Tree Motel in Port Macquarie, NSW, with her partner recently while visiting a loved one who was sick in hospital.