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People jump from windows to flee South Carolina motel fire, toddler among six dead

JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 01-25-2004 Dateline: GREENVILLE, South CarolinaFire broke out in a five-story motel early Sunday while guests were asleep, killing six and forcing others to leap from windows or climb down bed sheets to safety, authorities said.At least a

Publication: AP Worldstream

A bedtime story. (Selma, North Carolina motels along Interstate-95)

How an accident of geography turned the sleepy little town of Selma into an overnight success. Only the afternoon gin game is unpredictable on Charles and Hazel Terrel's annual winter run down Interstate 95 to Florida. By 5 a.m., the couple is up and away from Montclair, N.J. By 4 p.m., they've

Publication: Business North Carolina

Hotel and motel receipts up in North Carolina.

>R A % TO BUSINESS DESK AND LEISURE LIVING EDITOR: HOTEL, MOTEL RECEIPTS UP IN NORTH CAROLINA RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Travel in North Carolina is up 15 percent over the first five months of last year based on sales tax receipts from state hotel and motels. Figures released Monday

Publication: PR Newswire

Six Dead After Motel Fire in S. Carolina

JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press Writer AP Online 01-26-2004 Dateline: GREENVILLE, S.C.Firefighters use sheets to block the front entrance of the Comfort Inn & Suites, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004, in Greenville, S.C., as bodies are removed after an early fire killed six people, including a toddler,

Publication: AP Online

5 VICTIMS OF MOTEL FIRE IDENTIFIED 3 PALS FROM N. CAROLINA, ILLINOIS WOMAN AND HER DAUGHTER DIED IN BLAZE IN THORNTON BUILDING.(Local)

Byline: John C. Ensslin Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer THORNTON -- Two days after Christmas, Anthony Maurice Bunn piled into a car with two pals and left his hometown in North Carolina. The three friends had cast their lot together and decided to drive to Colorado. They came to find work and to

Publication: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)

Motel 6 adds 2 new locations on East Coast; brings nationwide total to 424 motels.

MOTEL 6 ADDS 2 NEW LOCATIONS ON EAST COAST; BRINGS NATIONWIDE TOTAL TO 424 MOTELS SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Motel 6 (NYSE:SIX), the nation's largest chain of company-operated economy motels, has added motels in Columbia, S.C. and Dalton, Ga. to bring the company total to 424

Publication: PR Newswire

Motel blaze kills 6: Guests jumped out of windows in S. Carolina

GREENVILLE, S.C. - A fire filled a five-story motel with thick, disorienting smoke early Sunday, killing six people and forcing other panicked guests to jump out of windows or climb down bed sheets to safety, authorities said. At least a dozen people were injured, including five in critical

Publication: Charleston Gazette

Motel to Reopen in Burlington, N.C.

Byline: Jim Wicker Feb. 28--The former Comfort Inn in Burlington, closed since late November, will reopen this week and initially create 15 to 20 jobs. "We're shooting to open as soon as we can this week," Satis Patel, the inn's owner-operator, said Monday. The western North Carolina businessman

Publication: Times-News (Burlington, North Carolina) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

2 FUGITIVES ARRESTED AT SUFFOLK MOTEL FOR UNRELATED OFFENSES.(LOCAL)

Byline: SUSIE STOUGHTON, STAFF WRITER SUFFOLK -- Knock once, and you could find a fugitive from North Carolina in a local motel room, police learned Wednesday afternoon. Knock again, hours later, and you could find another one at the same motel, in the room next door. Separate tips helped police

Publication: The Virginian Pilot

The Motel in America.(Review)

The Motel in America. By John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, and Jefferson S. Rogers. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xiv+340 pp. $32.95 cloth. I had the highest expectations for The Motel in America based upon my regard for

Publication: Journal of Cultural Geography