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Woman Died Aboard United Flight From Tel Aviv To San Francisco

Marcia Louise O’Leary of Spokane, Washington died on a United Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to San Francisco December 1.

Qatar Airways (Photo: Courtesy of Qatar Airways)

Plane Makes Emergency Landing Due to Hysterical Cheated Woman

Qatar Airways was forced into an emergency landing mid-way to Bali, Indonesia in India after a drunk woman discovered her husband was cheating on her and became hysterical Sunday.

The unidentified woman allegedly secretly used her sleeping husband’s finger to unlock his phone where she discovered he was cheating on her.

Experts Question Two Women Lost At Sea Story

Experts have been seriously questioning two women’s story of being lost in the South Pacific following the Navy’s harrowing rescue last month as they started pulling apart, examining and finding fallacies in their story.

Under closer scrutiny, their tale at sea immediately started to fall apart and sound more like a tall tale of being lost at sea. The women are defending their version of what happened on the high seas.

Tasha, Jennifer and their two dogs were rescued by the USS Ashland months after their boat became adrift in the Pacific. (Photo: Associated Press)

Women Sailors Lost At Sea Blissful By Navy Rescue

Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava stood with the USS Ashland’s commanding officer and others high on the bridgeway when the ship arrived at White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa Monday, October 30, local time in Japan.

Five days earlier, the U.S. Navy’s USS Ashland rescued the two women and their two dogs from their shark and storm-battered sailboat 900 miles southeast of Japan.

Denver visitors experience the Forced From Home interactive traveling exhibit earlier this year. (Photo: Julia Vandenoever)

Walk In The Shoes Of A Refugee At Forced From Home Exhibit

Many refugees live in the San Francisco Bay Area, but not many people know the journey that refugees, asylum seekers, and people fleeing violence in their home countries take to seek a safe home.
A traveling interactive exhibit, Forced From Home, coming to Oakland’s Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center parking lot (east side) October 30 through November 5, will give local residents a simulated guided experience to better understand the journey people escaping horrific conditions in their home countries undertake.

Black Travelers Warned To Be On Alert When Flying America Airlines

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issued a travel advisory warning for African Americans traveling on American Airlines citing a pattern of “disrespectful” and “discriminatory” behavior by airline employees October 24.

The warning suggests that American Airlines’ has a “corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias.”

Paralyzed hiker Stacey Kozel takes on some of the United State’s toughest trails. (Photo: Courtesy of WVLT)

Did Paralyzed Hiker Lie? Hikers Say, ‘Yes.’

It was a story that was too good to be true.

Hikers piecing together paralyzed hiker Stacey Kozel’s story about completing the Pacific Crest Trail called her bluff after her story aired on ABC World News with David Muir September 18.

Wine Country Women of Napa Valley (Photo: Courtesy of Wine Country Women, LLC)

Women Of Napa Valley Book Raises Funds For Wildfire Relief

Book Celebrates Women Of Napa And Raises Support In The Wake Of The Northern California Wildfires That Devastated Napa And Sonoma Valleys by Heather Cassell Napa is strong and so is its women. A new coffee table book, “Wine Country Women of Napa Valley,” coming to bookstores October 24, celebrates the diverse and empowering community […]

What remains of the popular Willi’s Wine Bar in Santa Rosa, California. (Photo: Courtesy of Terri Stark)

LGBTs Begin Returning Home After Fires

North Bay LGBTs hit hard by the firestorm that ripped through the heart of wine country began returning home as evacuation orders were lifted and firefighters gained control more than a week after what has now become the worst fires in California’s history.
As of Wednesday, the death toll stood at 42, officials said, and includes one person who died at a hospital of smoke inhalation.

Firemen look for hot spots in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, California Monday, October 9, 2017. (Photo: Ben Margot / Associated Press)

LGBTs caught in horrific N. Bay fires

Fast-moving wildfires fueled by dry brush and Diablo winds roared through the hillsides and vineyards in Napa and Sonoma counties starting late Sunday night and continued to burn out of control.
LGBT winery owners and other community members were among the evacuees and those who lost homes or had businesses damaged.

Stacey enjoys a waterfall along the Appalachian Trails. (Photo: Courtesy of Appalachian Trails)

Paralyzed Hiker Stacey Kozel Conquers Great Peaks

Paralyzed hiker Stacey Kozel completed her solo journey on the Pacific Crest Trail, that runs from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Canadian border last month.

“It’s hard to believe I’m actually standing here at the U.S.A.-Canadian border,” Stacey says in a video from the trail posted on Facebook after finishing the 2,650 miles at the Canadian border. “Feels good!”

Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope’s mastery of ballet and dance brought the Broadway production of “An American in Paris” to life. (Photo: Courtesy of Broadway / “An American in Paris”)

‘An American In Paris’ Is A Stunning Theatrical Triumph

It was a magical evening from the moment the curtain rose revealing the art deco, cubism, modernism, postmodern images paired with jazzy rifts that took me to a place and time in history, post-World War II France.