Vor 7 Stunden
Acjn Reputed mobster thought linked to art heist pleads guilty in weapons and drugs case
A day after being dubbed the filthiest in America, a Tennessee hotel is pledging to clean up.The Grand Resort Hotel Convention Center was ranked the filthiest hotel in America, according to ratings compiled and rel stanley mug eased by the travel review site TripAdvisor. See the list below.The historic Smoky Mountains hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., was graded terrible by 161 of 224 reviewers on the site. Twenty-six called it poor and 15 gave it an average grade. But CEO and General Manager Nicky Darrell Chaney said he has already fired one manager, hired a new maintenance manager and new head of housekeeping, and is in the process of using a new sanitizer to clean the rooms, reports CBS affiliate WVLT in Knoxville. We knew we had some problems, and we ve sta stanley canada rted to work on these problems, said Nicky Chaney, President and CEO of the company that runs the hotel. Chaney took over operations in December and vows to restore their public image. I fired one of the managers, I hired new maintenance, and new housekeeper, he said. We re stanley flasche proud of what we re doing now, and were excited about where we re going to be in the next few weeks.Chaney took over just last month as president and CEO of KMS Enterprises, which runs the Grand and several nearby properties owned by hotel magnate Kenneth M. Seaton. This is an issue the company is taking very seriously, Chaney said a statement Tuesday.Seaton, who is no longer involved in the Grand s day- Drxu 9/11 Panel Getting Disputed Docs
Washington state s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the death penalty was unconstitutional because it was inconsistently applied, yeezy slide making Washington the 20th state in the US to outlaw capital punishment.The court said the death penalty s use varied depending on the location of the crime or the race of the accused -- a violation of the state s constitution. Budgetary resources and county of residence were also contributing factors, the ruling said.The state has eight prisoners on death row, according tothe Death Penalty Information Center, and the ruling said all their death sentences would be changed to life in prison. The court makes it perfectly clear that capital punishment in our state has been imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner, is unequally applied and serves no criminal justice goal, said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee,who in 2014imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, saying it was inconsistently applied. This is a hugely important moment in our pursuit for equal and fair application of justice, he added.The state has carried out five executions since the adidas campus US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishmentin 1976,data from the nonprofit shows. All five defendants were white.But studies have indicated race does play a role in juries decision to sentence a defendant to death. A studyfrom the University of Washingtonfound jurors in the state were more than four times more likel uggs barn y to impose a death sentence if the defendant is black. The ruling was handed dow
A day after being dubbed the filthiest in America, a Tennessee hotel is pledging to clean up.The Grand Resort Hotel Convention Center was ranked the filthiest hotel in America, according to ratings compiled and rel stanley mug eased by the travel review site TripAdvisor. See the list below.The historic Smoky Mountains hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., was graded terrible by 161 of 224 reviewers on the site. Twenty-six called it poor and 15 gave it an average grade. But CEO and General Manager Nicky Darrell Chaney said he has already fired one manager, hired a new maintenance manager and new head of housekeeping, and is in the process of using a new sanitizer to clean the rooms, reports CBS affiliate WVLT in Knoxville. We knew we had some problems, and we ve sta stanley canada rted to work on these problems, said Nicky Chaney, President and CEO of the company that runs the hotel. Chaney took over operations in December and vows to restore their public image. I fired one of the managers, I hired new maintenance, and new housekeeper, he said. We re stanley flasche proud of what we re doing now, and were excited about where we re going to be in the next few weeks.Chaney took over just last month as president and CEO of KMS Enterprises, which runs the Grand and several nearby properties owned by hotel magnate Kenneth M. Seaton. This is an issue the company is taking very seriously, Chaney said a statement Tuesday.Seaton, who is no longer involved in the Grand s day- Drxu 9/11 Panel Getting Disputed Docs
Washington state s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the death penalty was unconstitutional because it was inconsistently applied, yeezy slide making Washington the 20th state in the US to outlaw capital punishment.The court said the death penalty s use varied depending on the location of the crime or the race of the accused -- a violation of the state s constitution. Budgetary resources and county of residence were also contributing factors, the ruling said.The state has eight prisoners on death row, according tothe Death Penalty Information Center, and the ruling said all their death sentences would be changed to life in prison. The court makes it perfectly clear that capital punishment in our state has been imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner, is unequally applied and serves no criminal justice goal, said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee,who in 2014imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, saying it was inconsistently applied. This is a hugely important moment in our pursuit for equal and fair application of justice, he added.The state has carried out five executions since the adidas campus US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishmentin 1976,data from the nonprofit shows. All five defendants were white.But studies have indicated race does play a role in juries decision to sentence a defendant to death. A studyfrom the University of Washingtonfound jurors in the state were more than four times more likel uggs barn y to impose a death sentence if the defendant is black. The ruling was handed dow