A Seoul court on Wednesday fined Hamilton Hotel CEO, identified by his last name Lee, 8 million won ($6,200) for illegally building structures for the alleyway around the hotel where the Itaewon crowd crush happened last year. The decision is the first court ruling on cases involving the crowd crush. The unauthorized construction of structures around the hotel has been blamed for making the crowd crush worse by narrowing the alleyway where the accident happened.
Robert V. Matthews, 65, incarcerated in Pensacola after entering a guilty plea in Palm House hotel fraud case. Foreign investors were bilked out of millions of dollars, prosecutors said. Former hotel developer Robert “Bob” V. Matthews, whose home was once a lavish oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, is now living at a minimum-security prison in Pensacola, according to a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons.
A British hotel at the centre of a scandal involving the disappearance of more than 130 unaccompanied child asylum seekers has been stripped of its government contract. The hotel in Brighton was the focus of major protests after it was discovered that dozens of migrant children had gone missing, possibly abducted by criminal gangs. Only last month, London's High Court heard at least 50 minors were still unaccounted for.
A German-Israeli singer admitted in court on Tuesday to having lied when he accused two hotel employees of antisemitism in a viral video posted online two years ago.
A Perth father whose arm was badly broken as he shielded his daughter during a buggy crash in Bali says a $7600 ex-gratia payment offered to him by the hotel will do nothing to help his family while his future is in limbo.
The Himachal Pradesh high court also ordered the state to refrain from interfering in the day-to-day management and possession of the hotel till further orders.
Hotel Hacker Faked His Own Death by Hacking Into State Death Record Systems: FBI
Authorities caught him after he used his personal IP address to access Hawaii’s health department’s computer systems to register his own death certificate. man who was arrested for hacking the customer database of Marriott Hotels faked his own death to possibly avoid getting caught by authorities. Jesse Kipf was arrested last month for breaching the networks of a few companies and states. He even accessed the health department systems in a few states to register his own death certificate.
Fairfax County police are investigating a fatal shooting Sunday morning at a Marriott in Merrifield.
Prosecutors ask court for eight-week period to further investigate alleged incident - A Hong Kong customs officer suspected of raping a Swedish tourist in a hotel has been remanded in custody.
Having checked out of the Abora Buenaventura hotel in Playa del Inglés, where she had gone, it seems, to continue working on her doctoral thesis on special education and textbook writing. She had gone there the day before and after settling her bill, and spending some time in the hotel lobby, she returned to her family apartment and called her daughter around 4:00 p.m. Her belongings, including her computer, chargers, passport, and ID card, were all later found in her apartment. The family also noticed that her mobile phone was off on April 10.
Melanie Brown, best known as Mel B or Scary Spice from The Spice Girls, is sharing some details from the girl group's time on the road. In a new interview, the singer, 48, explained that all of the women were extremely close — to the point where they had no problem disrobing in front of each other.
The Dakota County Attorney's Office says 25-year-old Philip Jedidiah Wong, of Little Canada, is accused of killing Jianqin Zhang inside an Eagan hotel on Oct. 12. Zhang, from Shanghai City, China, was found dead inside the Microtel Inn & Suites, according to the Dakota County Medical Examiner's Office, who ruled her death a homicide from strangulation. The criminal complaint, which was filed on Oct. 30, states Zhang was found dead on a bed by her friend and a hotel worker. Her friend told police Zhang was a sex worker, and the "organization" she worked for contacted the friend to do a welfare check after they hadn't heard from her for several hours, the complaint states.
The Police said that white gold jewellery weighing six pounds and gold jewellery weighing 3.3 pounds worth Rs.1.7 million were among the stolen items. A stock of navaratna and sapphire gemstones was also among the pilfered articles. According to the police complaint, there were 32 boxes containing navaratna stones and 51 boxes of sapphires.
A private security force originally founded by General Motors has apparently run roughshod over African Americans at the corporate Renaissance Center headquarters, including Marriott guest Demarko Brown, according to a lawsuit. Brown, who was staying at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, explains that he was so severely beaten that he received a brain injury. Allegations against the Renaissance Center’s security date back at least a dozen years.
He booked them all into the biggest and plushest hotel in the city, the Grand Cypress Hotel, where he took a suite on the 17th floor at a cost of $1,200 a night. On the night of Wednesday, February 18, at around midnight, Dunne was alone in his suite and into a serious cocaine binge. A serial telephone addict when he was drinking or on drugs, he got out the local Yellow Pages, called ‘Escorts in a Flash’ and ordered a girl to come to suite No 1708 on the 17th floor.
This year’s post-pandemic travel boom is continuing into the holidays. Nearly half (48%) of Americans plan to travel between Thanksgiving and mid-January, up from 31% last winter, a recent Deloitte survey found. AAA expects 55.4 million travelers to venture at least 50 miles from home during the Thanksgiving period alone, a 2.3% increase from last year.
On Hoda's "Making Space" podcast, Erin Andrews described the emotional devastation she went through after first learning that a stalker had filmed her through a hotel peephole and posted the videos online. Erin Andrews says that one of the hardest moments during her ordeal with a stalker more than a decade ago was calling her parents to let them know she'd been secretly videotaped.
The victim, Mr. Ruhan, told the police that he met a Thai woman on a dating app, who invited him to Pattaya from Phuket. They went to some bars in the Walking Street area of South Pattaya, and then returned to her room at a hotel in Soi Pattaya Second Road. The woman asked him to take a shower, and when he came out, he found that she had left. He checked his belongings and realized that she had taken US$ 2100 dollars (about 73,000 Baht) and an iPhone 14 Pro worth 30,000 Baht.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas hotel union workers voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve their contract agreement with casino giant Caesars Entertainment, signaling an end to lengthy labor disputes that had brought the threat of a historic strike to the Strip. The Culinary Workers Union announced on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that 99% of the vote favored the new five-year deal. “BEST CONTRACT EVER! Congratulations to 10,000 hospitality workers!,” the post said.
OSBI Public Information Manager Hunter McKee told 2 News an Osage Nation police officer responded for service at the Osage Hotel around 5 a.m. Tuesday morning. They said a man drove off in his blue truck, pulling the officer with him as the officer tried talking to him. McKee said a bystander saw what was going on and shot and killed the driver. The officer is expected to be okay.
A large fire is being seen in the 500 block of Cox Road Monday night
A waiter who sneaked into an inebriated woman's room at the Palm Springs hotel where he worked and sexually assaulted her while she lay unconscious was convicted Tuesday of rape and other felony charges.
STUART, Fla. (WKRC) - A former member of the UC Women's Golf Team was arrested after she allegedly called the police to her hotel room to report that someone had stolen a "half-gram" of marijuana from her. What 23-year-old Lily Marie Rinker didn't realize is that she already had two outstanding warrants out for her arrest. According to a probable cause affidavit, Stuart police responded to a call at approximately 2 a.m. about an alleged theft that had occurred at a hotel.
Police said they suspect DUI was involved in the crash.