Burglars ransack Des Moines home while family is on vacation (The Des Moines Register ) A Des Moines family returned from vacation Tuesday night to find more than $5,000 in property missing from their home. The property that remained was scattered. Time Share: A Great Vacation Opportunity for the Family (Carteret County News-Times ) (ARA) - With a busy family, hectic work schedule and decisions to be made daily on a variety of topics and issues, one thing the average person does not want to struggle over is where to vacation to get some rest. Will Fifi Go on Vacation Too? (Carteret County News-Times ) (ARA) - Summertime is a great time for a vacation. Everyone looks forward to the annual family outing when you pack up the family and head for the car, airplane, train or bus and take that getaway you have been waiting for all year long. United full of excuses, but family gets relief (San Diego Union-Tribune ) Someone at United Airlines has a heart after all. But don't go looking for it at the corporate offices. The folks there are still coming up with excuses for their scandalous treatment of Anita Cabral and her family, whose long-planned Hawaiian vacation was ruined when United refused to honor in June the tickets it sold them in December. Here's how to get more vacation time (The Times of Northwest Indiana ) When family rights advocate John De Graff started doing some historical research, he came across a shocking discovery -- that medieval European peasants had more vacation time than modern American office workers. Vacation over, Obama in fighting form (Politico via Yahoo! News ) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Barack Obama has emerged from a weeklong family vacation with a little bit of a cold, but also with a more confrontational campaign strategy. It includes going public with new attacks and trying to turn Republican attacks — and even John McCain's own jokes — back at McCain. Take a vacation minutes from home Local attractions make for a less expensive way for residents of Strathcona County ... (Sherwood Park News ) With the high gas prices this summer, it becomes difficult to take those highly anticipated road trips with the family when vacation time rolls around. A bare-bones hobby: Searching for fossils is a family affair for the Garretts of Ferguson (North County Journal ) The perfect family vacation for the Garretts of Ferguson involves getting down on their hands and knees to search through a pile of rocks with picks and toothbrushes, all while listening for the telltale sound of a rattlesnake rattle. Need a break? Here's how to get more vacation time (The Myrtle Beach Sun News ) By SEAN O'DRISCOLL For The Associated Press When family rights advocate John De Graff started doing some historical research, he came across a shocking discovery _ that medieval European peasants had more vacation time than modern American office workers. De Graff, the national coordinator of Take Back Your Time Day, based his figures on the number of religious holidays peasants took off to ... Sixty years of family togetherness (Grand Rapids Herald-Review ) When the words “family vacation” are mentioned, some people might cringe. That is absolutely not the case with a family with its roots in Illinois, a family who has made a week get-away to the same northern Minnesota resort a family tradition for 60 years.
