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Strange happenings! Just wondering is it just bad luck, or what? Our rooms at the Embassy, Crystal city, we rented 2 rooms apart from each other different floor, There was No Heat in the rooms! Then our friend Judy traveled Amtrak from New York to Washington D.C. Guess what!? She froze on the train, NO HEAT! She said it was like riding a refrigerated train! When she called to complain, (She paid400 dollars for 2 round trip tickets, AMTRAK told her they would refund her 50 dollars.

The FBI has joined a criminal investigation of what police said appears to be an "intentional attack" on gas service lines in Aspen, Colorado, that left thousands of residents and businesses without heat as temperatures in the skiing mecca plunged to near zero degrees. Work crews are scrambling to restore gas service, and local authorities handed out electric space heaters to residents still without heat Tuesday, as a storm is forecast to bring up to 8 inches of snow in the Rocky Mountains region this week. Temperatures are forecast to fall to 2 degrees in Aspen on Tuesday night, according...

A US property firm linked to Irish TV celebrity and political activist Eddie Hobbs has been accused of leaving poor African American tenants in its West Detroit properties with no heat in the freezing Midwestern winter. Thirty-five percent of Detroit residents live in poverty while 57 percent of the city’s children do, among the highest rates in the country. The company, Artesian Equities, is a subsidiary of Brendan Investment Pan European Property (BIPAP) of which Hobbs was a co-founder and served as a non-executive director before resigning in 2015 to co-found the right-of-center political Renua Party. He retained a 4.5%...

Couple charged with endangering children 12/12/2002 Associated Press WACO, Texas - The parents of two children authorities said were denied food and forced to live in a shed with no heat or bathroom have made arrangements to surrender later this week. Rhonda Speer, 39, and Martin Speer, 60, are charged with endangering her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son. Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday, said Justice of the Peace Billy Martin. They face up to 10 years in prison, if convicted. Detective Clay Perry of the McLennan County Sheriff's Department, who interviewed the couple Tuesday, said they plan to turn...