Man Found Dead In Allegheny Co. Motel Room With 7 Ferrets, Scorpion

KENNEDY TWP., Pa. -- The Allegheny County medical examiner is investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a Kennedy Township motel room with nine animals. Police said the man, whose identity had not been released, was found inside a room at the Motel Six on Beecham Drive. Triangle Pet Control Services said the man was found with a purebred German Sheppard puppy, seven ferrets and a scorpion. All of the animals were found alive.

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Steven Seagull returns to Duluth motel

DULUTH — A ring-billed gull with a taste for doughnuts has returned for the ninth straight year to the Super 8 motel in Duluth, and he’s brought some friends. The Duluth News Tribune reported that the bird, known at Steven Seagull, still taps on the glass door of the motel every morning looking for doughnuts.

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Woman Wins Suit Over Daughters' Exposure To Porn

(CBS) NORWALK, Calif. A Tennessee woman who sued an Artesia motel because her two pre-teen daughters were exposed to unsolicited pornography on TV was awarded $85,000 on Friday. Edwina McCombs of Nashville, who is divorced, and her daughters, who were about 7 and 8 years old at the time, were in Southern California in August 2006 to visit relatives and see local attractions, according to one of her lawyers, Eliot F. Krieger. On Aug 6, 2006, they checked into the Value Lodge at 11854 Artesia Blvd. She went to take a bath while the girls turned on the television to...

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Steel-plated motel offers refuge in Mexico drug war

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A motel in northern Mexico is putting steel doors on its rooms to protect guests from kidnappings and shootings in an escalating war between rival drug cartels. Owners of the Rancho El Trueno, or Thunder Ranch, began fortifying the highway motel near Monterrey a year ago but have decided to shield all 35 rooms as drug killings have worsened in the area in recent months. Complete with hot tubs, red imitation-leather beds, mirrored walls and striptease poles, the rooms are shuttered behind steel gates about 1.5 inches (4 cm) thick and some already have steel doors....

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Indian American hoteliers find need to learn Spanish

By Sonia Moghe ASSOCIATED PRESS 11:40 a.m. August 4, 2006 RICHARDSON, Texas – When Ron Patel talks to customers at the Super 8 Motel he owns, he usually does so in English. When he speaks to the housekeeping staff it's often in Spanish. When he talks to his wife, it's in the Indian language Gujarati. It's a complicated but increasingly common scene in U.S. hotels and motels, about one-third of which are owned by Indians, according to the Asian American Hotel Owners Association. To help keep order in the multilanguage environment, many hotel operators are turning to a Gujarati-Spanish phrasebook...

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