Warning: State Department Travel Alerts could save your life
Before you take your next international trip, remember to review of US State Department Travel Alerts and country-specific information. The information might save your life. It could have made a different to the young couple from Bend, Ore., that was savagely attacked in the city of Esmeraldas, on Ecuador’s northern coast last week.
State Department issues unusual Mexico travel alert
The State Department has issued a strongly-worded Travel Alert for US citizens traveling and living in Mexico. Bottom line: next time you go south of the border, you have to be street smart.
So you’re a travel theft victim — now what?
Your hotel room has been burglarized. What now? Sometimes, no matter what you do or how careful and observant you are, you may become a travel theft victim. Ned Levi knows, because it’s happened to him.
Passenger duct-taped on flight
A man who allegedly attacked a United Airlines flight attendant on a flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles was subdued by passengers and bound with duct-tape.
Hijacker takes 10 Australians hostage
Police shot and killed a man Wednesday after he hijacked a bus in northwest China and took 10 Australians hostage.