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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former fugitive from Colorado who pleaded guilty to causing a spectacular Las Vegas Strip hotel standoff that included furniture flying from a Caesars Palace window was sentenced Thursday to pay nearly $55,300 in restitution to the hotel and to serve up to four years of prison time.

Choice Hotels International, Inc. settled with Colorado AG Phil Weiser to resolve allegations that the company violated the Colorado Consumer Protection Act by employing “drip pricing”—omitting mandatory fees from advertised room rates.

What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas – and now one of the most prestigious hotels on the strip is red-faced for spilling the beans. The Wynn Las Vegas is currently conducting an investigation into how personal details of three politicos slipped out, costing two of them their jobs.

Atlanta police and fire said crews were called out to Pharr Road near the Homewood Suites and Staybridge Suites at 4:30 a.m. Monday for a large fire. Atlanta Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Ronald Slatton said a car inside the parking deck caught on fire. The fire then spread to another car and construction materials that were in the parking deck left by construction workers, according to Slatton. “They initially called 2-alarm because of the amount of fire that they first saw when they got on scene. But we did not use any of the second-alarm units.”

Just before 2 p.m., Collier County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a passerby who saw what appeared to be a body in the water. A dive team and investigators responded to the call. Detectives confirmed it was a drowning and not suspicious. The identity of the person has not been confirmed yet.

Bodycam | Hotel staff robbed at gunpoint - The suspect was arrested, authorities say.

New York City is preparing for the worst — extending its contract with local hotels to help house migrants for up to three more years at a staggering added cost of more than $1 billion.

Ukrainian authorities said one woman was injured after several Russian missiles struck infrastructure in the southern port city of Odesa. A fire broke out at Hotel Odesa, which was not in use at the time, as a result of the attack.

The owner of Regent Plaza, a five-star hotel in Karachi, has informed investors that the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Trust, a leading non-profit organization in the healthcare sector, has expressed interest in acquiring the hotel. The current market rate for PHDL’s shares is Rs 220.04 per share and a 100 percent acquisition of the hotel at this rate would be worth Rs 3.96 billion. The company’s latest annual accounts show that it values its main real estate at Rs 8.9 billion, with the hotel building valued at Rs 939.2 million.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 represents 2,700 members who work in West Maui. Historically, the union’s workers used to work on the plantations, but many workers now work in the hospitality industry.

Santa Monica hotel workers at Fairmont Miramar, Le Méridien Delfina Santa Monica, Viceroy Santa Monica, Hampton Inn & Suites Santa Monica and Courtyard Santa Monica walked out on Monday following a stalemate in pay increase negotiations, the Los Angeles Times reported. The strike comes amid efforts by Unite Here Local 11 to raise the salaries of hotel workers who are particularly impacted by a looming housing crisis. The union is partly urging hotels to instantly increase workers’ hourly wages by $5 before raising them by $3 annually for two consecutive years.

The EU vetoed a bid by US online travel agency Booking to take over Swedish rival Etraveli Group Monday over fears the deal would harm competition and risked raising prices for customers. The European Commission, the bloc's powerful antitrust enforcer, opened an investigation in November last year amid concerns the merger would allow Booking to become too dominant in the market for finding hotels and other accommodation online.

Through a recent statement, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior said that during the police operation carried out in Spain by the French National Police, in collaboration with Europol, two bags were discovered hidden in a compartment containing stolen items worth over €750,000, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Martin Hyde, the general manager of a New York City-based Indian restaurant Dillons sued both Gordon Ramsay and 'Kitchen Nightmares' for $620,128 (£500,000). He claimed that the treatment he got on the show ruined his career.

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The incident triggered wide discussion among netizens over the rising price of hotel rooms amid a strong recovery in domestic travel during the upcoming holidays. Local fire authorities received a report claiming that one hotel under the chain Greentree Inn Express was marketing a "stairwell room," which is only six square meters in size and has closed windows.

According to the magistrate's complaint, officers with the Guam Police Department responded to a theft of property complaint at Garden Villa Hotel in Tumon where they met with a woman who reported she was with her friends when she was approached by a man who tried to grab her purse. "She stated that the unknown male had a black handgun pointed at her and that he was wearing a sweat shirt, was slim built and was wearing a face mask," the complaint stated.

The daughter, who previously stayed in Geneva, Switzerland, went to New York to join Algeria's Permanent Representation to the UN. For more than two months, the situation of the daughter of the head of the Algerian army, Said Chengriha, has provoked various voices within the Algerian parliament to call on the government to explain the expenses involved in her stay and her duties. According to Maghreb Intelligence, the official version of the Algerian government is that the reason for the transfer is to take up a post in the Permanent Representation of Algeria to the UN.

Chennai: The food department of Tamil Nadu will conduct raids in hotels across the state after a 14-year-old girl died of food poisoning in Namakkal district a couple of days ago. State health Minister Ma Subramanian has ordered the food department officials to conduct raids to find out the violators. The minister directed officials to check whether the restaurants were following food safety guidelines. The quality of the food served will be checked and those will be fined where sub-standard food is served, said the minister.

According to an affidavit obtained by KVUE, the security guard suffered a severed nerve and artery in his left arm.

On Monday, Sept. 4, The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) received a call to the Grove Resort and Water Park in Orange County. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office was asking for assistance in dealing with a young alligator that a woman was keeping in her hotel room’s bathtub. According to FWC, she “borrowed” the alligator without permission to take pictures with for her five-day stay at the resort for her birthday.

Yarmouth Police received a 911 call with an open line and a woman heard screaming shortly before 4:00 a.m., according to radio transmissions. The call led officers to a hotel room at the Days Inn on Route 28, where they found a woman badly beaten and bleeding. She was also robbed of her valuables. The suspects, a woman and a man, fled on foot.

NATIONAL CITY — Guests staying at a National City hotel were awakened by fire alarms early Thursday after a blaze in a dumpster sent smoke into the building, officials said. The fire at the Best Western Marina Gateway Hotel on Bay Marina Drive was reported around 3:40 a.m. in a large trash dumpster.

An alleged drug dealer was apprehended Friday after she was seen with 68 bags of suspected heroin, a loaded gun, and ammunition at Atlantic City’s Ocean Casino Resort.