The u. S. And britain say it looks like it was a bomb that brought down metro jet plane. It crashed killing all 224 people onboard. One u. S. Official says specific internet chatter around saturdays crash suggests that isis or isis affiliates were involved. Heres what u. S. President barack obama said thursday. I think there is a possibility that there was a bomb onboard. And were taking that very seriously. Thousands of british tourists stranded from Sharm El Sheikh egypt could start coming home in the next few hours. Ben wedeman, just past 8 00 in the morning. Limited flights set to resume, but there will be increased security and no checked luggage for those passengers heading home. Thats right. About 20,000 british tourists are in Sharm El Sheikh at the moment. Many have had their return to the uk delayed because of the suspension of flights tweep the uk and Sharm El Sheikh. Special flights will be laid on by the airlines to be bring many of those people, but, of course, they will
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In 1920, Gloversville merchants did everything they could, including offering free trolley car rides, to keep shoppers buying local. (Photo courtesy of Peter Betz)
One doesn’t have to look back 100 years to remember when absolutely nothing related to Christmas gift-buying appeared in store windows and newspaper advertisements until after Thanksgiving, when there was no special shopping day called Black Friday or even a grey one, when few Fulton County shoppers ventured beyond their local Johnstown, Gloversville, and maybe Amsterdam stores to purchase gifts, and when there were also those three-pound Sears, Roebuck catalogs known as wish books to order from, with wonderful toy sections, the stuff dreams were made of for children of our old times, delivered by what must have been very tired, strong-backed mail carriers.