Just days after a horrible plane crash that took the lives of 152 people, the Edhi rescue service announced that the death toll from Pakistan’s flash flooding has climbed to 817. It isn’t expected to end there with thousands of people still stranded where the storms are the worst.
Rhinebeck, NY is all abuzz with the excitement surrounding the pending nuptials of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton. True to her publicity-shy nature, Clinton has kept the details of the wedding as secret as possible including swearing local businesses to secrecy. The roads of the town were close, the sky over the estate was closed and neighbors who were inconvenienced by the closures were offered a consolatory bottle of wine from the Clintons.
Tourism officials in Arizona are fearful that the new immigration bill is going to have an impact on the state’s business travel industry. Occupancy at hotels is actual up statewide and visitors are still coming to the high profile spots such as the Grand Canyon and Sedona, but it doesn’t stop concerns over the recent boycott of Arizona tourism by some nationwide.
Two Texas brothers managed to make $550 million dollars by participating in insider trading for 13 years. The Wyly brothers, Sam and Charles, are billionaire investors from Dallas who are commonly heard supporting conservatives and their causes.
Southwest Michigan is trying to race the clock to clean up an oil spill of 1 million gallons before it reaches Lake Michigan. Crews are hard at work Friday trying to get the spill that spawned from a broken pipeline into the Kalamazoo River.
