TRAVEL NEWS

• More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving 11/21/2009, 12:09 p.m. CST
(AP) — WASHINGTON - The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.

• Tom Cruise in Austria's Salzburg for film shoot 11/19/2009, 10:16 a.m. CST
(AP) — VIENNA - Tom Cruise has arrived in the Austrian city of Salzburg to shoot scenes for the new action comedy "Knight & Day."

• Russian ship freeing itself from ice in Antarctic 11/19/2009, 3:05 a.m. CST
(AP) — MOSCOW - A Russian icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has been successfully moving through ice and is just about 100 meters away from clear water, its owners said Thursday.

• AAA: Thanksgiving travel to go up, air travel down 11/18/2009, 12:45 p.m. CST
(AP) — WASHINGTON - A leading auto organization is projecting a 1.4 percent increase in Thanksgiving travel this year, although fewer people will travel by air due to budget concerns, reduced airline capacity and added charges.

• Airlines boost peak-day surcharges 11/17/2009, 12:10 p.m. CST
(AP) — DALLAS - It could cost you even more to travel next spring and summer.

• Cruise ship with 100 tourists stuck in Antarctica 11/17/2009, 6:35 a.m. CST
(AP) — MOSCOW - A Russian shipping company says one of its cruise ships carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists is stuck in the ice around Antarctica.

• Troops hone artillery skills to cut Afghan deaths 11/16/2009, 1:36 p.m. CST
(AP) — FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Deep in the woods on the Kentucky-Tennessee line, infantrymen headed for Afghanistan are honing their precision with powerful weapons like mortars in a key element of the American military's new mandate to reduce civilian deaths.

• Unions prod Obama to fix ailing airline industry 11/16/2009, 10:15 a.m. CST
(AP) — WASHINGTON - The Obama administration reached out Thursday to the nation's airlines and their unions for solutions on how to restore health to the ailing industry, which is losing billions of dollars, shedding jobs and blamed for using a business model critics say undermines safety.

• Pelini says both QBs likely to play against Kansas 11/12/2009, 7:16 p.m. CST
(AP) — LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska coach Bo Pelini says there's a good chance quarterbacks Zac Lee and Cody Green both will play in Saturday's game at Kansas.

• New Diamondbacks park designed with shade 11/12/2009, 1:49 a.m. CST
(AP) — PHOENIX - Fans at the new Diamondbacks spring-training ballpark at the Salt River Reservation will be sun-splashed rather than sun-baked when it opens in 2011.

• No-pad practice begins Nebraska's prep for Kansas 11/9/2009, 6:58 p.m. CST
(AP) — LINCOLN, Neb. - After playing a physical game in the win over Oklahoma, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini had his players practice 90 minutes without pads.