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The City of San Antonio’s plan to convert a downtown hotel into a shelter for people without homes is leaving dozens of the hotel’s workers surprised and without jobs. The city council voted Oct. 19 to lease the 313-room Holiday Inn at Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Santa Rosa Avenue and have San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries (SAMM) operate it as a 200-room, low-barrier homeless shelter. The two-year, $8.8 million lease begins on Nov. 1, and SAMM hopes to move its clients from the city’s current shelter at a different downtown hotel and have them settled in by Thanksgiving.

"I think, in general, a lot of what's considered low-wage work is vulnerable," says Emylene Aspilla, director of the City of Oakland's Department of Workplace and Employment Standards, or DWES. The department found that the Radisson Hotel in Oakland is responsible for wage theft exceeding $400,000 and involving 128 employees.

Video footage shows a police robot bringing the suspect a cigarette during the standoff. After taking the cigarette, he appeared to throw the robot over the motel railing. The dead body of a woman was found inside a hotel room in the Del Cerro neighborhood of San Diego where a man had barricaded himself from police for six hours on Friday, San Diego police said. After the hours-long SWAT standoff on Friday, San Diego police arrested the suspect, identified as Owerrie Davon Bacon, Jr., 28, of San Bernardino, SDPD said.

A DuPage County judge Friday sentenced a former Chicago man to 88 years in prison for sexually assaulting a female employee of an Oak Brook hotel at gunpoint in the fall of 2019. Julius Ramsey, 41, was found guilty by a jury in May 2021 of three counts of aggravated sexual assault with a firearm, one count of aggravated kidnapping with a firearm, and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

This unexpected encounter turns what was meant to be a peaceful getaway into a real-life thriller, leaving both the traveler and hotel staff on edge. There's nothing more disappointing on a holiday than stumbling upon an uninvited and alarming creature in your cozy space of stay, and finding a lizard in your hotel bathroom can ruin your vacation. It's a place where you expect to feel safe and relaxed, but a sudden encounter with an unexpected and unsettling guest can turn your dream getaway into a nightmare.

The Israeli government has also permitted the 70,000 residents of the southern city of Ashkelon to vacate their homes for two weeks at the government's expense, although the city is far enough not to qualify for evacuation.

A man who went to a hotel to ‘date’ a woman was robbed by her accomplice on the threats of lodging a complaint of rape. The victim, a 37-year-old man from Ghorpadi Gaon, lodged the FIR in this case at the Chandan Nagar police station on Friday. Police have booked the woman and her accomplice in this case under sections 394, 506, 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act.

A restaurant manager “died as a hero” during Wednesday night’s mass shooting at a Lewiston, Maine, bowling alley and a bar and grille that claimed the lives of 18 people and left 13 wounded. The deadly rampage began at 6:56 p.m. when suspected gunman Robert Card, 40, opened fire inside at Just-In-Time Recreation, a bowling alley in Lewiston, authorities said.

OAKLAND — The results of a three-year city investigation unveiled on Friday revealed that 128 hotel workers were collectively underpaid $404,491 for nearly a year’s worth of paychecks — the largest wage theft finding in Oakland’s history. The Radisson Hotel, located on Edes Avenue less than a mile south of the Oakland Coliseum, failed to pay the correct minimum wage rates to its housekeepers, front desk staff and other employees between July 2019 and April 2020, according to the city’s Department of Workplace and Employment Standards.

Israel evacuated thousands to hotels, unpaid; hotels warn of collapse, may ask evacuees to leave. The state updated support to NIS 200 for adults, NIS 150 for kids. Israel evacuated thousands to hotels, unpaid; hotels warn of collapse, may ask evacuees to leave. The state updated support to NIS 200 for adults, NIS 150 for kids.

The Ninth Circuit upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling Wednesday that a Los Angeles hotel maneuvered to ditch an incumbent union in its post-renovation reopening, enforcing an order to rehire more than 100 unfairly rejected employees and deal with their union. A unanimous panel bought the board's findings that Hotel Bel-Air operator Kava Holdings was angling to avoid an obligation to deal with UNITE HERE Local 11 when it rejected the vast majority of applications by its pre-renovation employees to work at the revamped hotel.

Alfred Akirov has refused to open the doors of the Mamilla and David Citadel hotels to the thousands of Israelis displaced by the war; his explanation: lack of manpower. He also refused help from the Tourism Ministry which has offered assistance in recruiting employees.

Fifty hotels will be closed to asylum seekers by January and the government will "not stop there", immigration minister Robert Jenrick has told MPs. He said hotel contracts would end in "all four nations of the UK" in the coming months as his plan to cut asylum claims was "starting to work". About 400 hotels were being used to house record numbers of asylum seekers.

Bear gets into hotel kitchen and attacks security guard, Colorado Parks and Wildlife says - A bear got into the kitchen of the St. Regis Aspen Resort in Aspen Monday night and attacked a security guard who was investigating a report of the bear. The guard was scratched by the bear and taken to the hospital, where he was treated before being released. Aspen police and Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers located the bear but were unable to tranquilize or capture it after midnight Tuesday. Search efforts were put on hold but resumed Tuesday evening

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas woman faces charges of grand larceny and burglary after police say she left her “sugar daddy” at a concert, broke into his hotel room, and stole more than $50,000 from him, according to police documents. On Sunday, Oct. 15, police were called to Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino after a man in his 50s told police he was the victim of grand larceny, the report stated. The man told police he met a woman in her 20s, identified as Hailey McNally on a dating website called “Seeking Arrangement,” five weeks prior.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Post Oak Hotel is standing by its employees amid allegations of restaurant staff discriminating against Black guests. The popular hotel in Houston's Uptown area was slammed with two lawsuits nearly two weeks apart. Although the lawsuits are in reference to separate incidents, they are both accusing the hotel restaurant employees of singling them out for their race and enforcing dress code restrictions that allegedly weren't applied to white guests.

Police in Paphos arrested a 20-year-old individual on Sunday in connection with an ongoing investigation involving a hotel room burglary and theft. According to Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, the incident was reported by a 43-year-old female visitor staying at a hotel in Kato Paphos. She alleged that between 10am and 2pm, her hotel room was broken into and a gold ring belonging to her was stolen.

A greater alarm fire torched an abandoned commercial building in East Hollywood Monday morning

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was found shot and critically injured in the lobby of a downtown hotel Monday afternoon, Chicago fire officials said. Video from Chopper 7 showed the man on a stretcher, being taken away by ambulance. Chicago police said that man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen and thigh. The shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. near Rush and Ohio streets. Paramedics were initially called to the lobby of the Marriott Hotel, located at 540 N. Michigan Ave. in River North.

Attorneys for hotel chains and a sex-trafficking survivor sparred in a Wednesday hearing over what kind of awareness of and participation in her trafficking the survivor must show in order to claim the hotels are liable for trafficking at their Michigan locations. Eleven hospitality companies, including Marriott International, Red Roof Inn and G6, franchisor of the Motel 6 brand, told a Michigan federal judge that the plaintiff, who is suing under the initials K.O., has fallen far short of pleading that the hotels knew she was being trafficked or that they participated in any way in the crime, arguing that the suit must be dismissed.

U2's Bono and the Edge have sold the Clarence Hotel in Dublin in a multi-million euro deal after owning the iconic property for more than 30 years. Bono and the Edge, along with business partner Paddy McKillen Sr., have sold the famous hotel to the Dean Hotel Group, co-owned by Paddy McKillen Jr. and Matt Ryan.

Blessing Nwosu, 28, claims she was discriminated against by being asked to cover up when she entered the hotel's restaurant for her friend's birthday lunch. She's asking for $1million in damages for the shock and humiliation she had to face at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston, Texas. A black teacher has sued a five-star Houston hotel after a worker allegedly slammed her for showing off her shoulders - before grabbing a shawl and draping it over her body.

Jane Doe claims an unknown worker 'ejaculated' into her water bottle, which she then drank from. Her and her husband claim the hotel had the water tested and confirmed it was contaminated with semen. But they claim the chain then refused to hand over the bottle and did not co-operate with police.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with aggravated assault following the stabbing of a security guard at a north Etobicoke hotel on Saturday morning. Police said officers were called to the Four Points by Sheraton hotel near Toronto Pearson airport just after 10 a.m. According to those who made the 911 call, the suspect was trying to get into the hotel before the stabbing took place, police told CP24.