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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Arson investigators and the FBI are both looking into why a Midtown man had mercury in his apartment. The spill forced a floor-wide evacuation and big clean up Monday afternoon at Mid Main Lofts . Some residents arrived home to find fire trucks and hazmat teams surrounding their apartments. "All I know is mercury is involved," Anna Nguyen said. According to firefighters, a male resident had two pounds of mercury in a Crown Royal bottle in his apartment. A female friend picked up the bottle to make a drink and dropped it, spilling the mercury. HFD said the man tried and failed to clean the spill up with a medicine dropper, so he threw the dropper down the trash chute and contaminated that as well. The fifth floor was found to have unacceptable levels of mercury, and it remains closed. "If you've ever tried to pick mercury up, it's particularly difficult. I can't imagine what they're going to do, particularly if there are wood ...

Share This Story Property Deals Prompt Questions About AZ Firm Rodney Ernhart of Bigfork, Montana has had enough. “We’re done. We just want to wash our hands of the whole situation and just walk away. Take our licks. Learn from our mistakes and go on.” As mistakes go, Ernhart’s was an expensive one, costing him roughly $60,000. “It’s my own stupid fault.” In the spring of 2016 at a real estate conference in Las Vegas, Ernhart and his wife were approached about an opportunity in Niagara Falls, New York. The pitch came from a representative of Return On Rentals. The Arizona-based company says on its website that it “( helps) its clients create long -term wealth, using turnkey, residential rental property as the vehicle. We provide rehabbed, rented, professionally managed, cash flowing real estate for investors. ” Available for sale was a four- unit apartment building in Niagara Falls. Price tag was $100,250.  Ernhart was being asked to purchase, on the spot, without ever seeing the p...

Short-term rentals of private residences would be sharply curbed under a proposed ordinance drafted by San Diego City Councilwoman Barbara Bry , whose district includes the La Jolla area. Her proposal, released Monday, arrives a few months before the full council is expected to take up yet again the contentious question of how to regulate vacation rentals , which have mushroomed in popularity with the growth of the online home-sharing platform, Airbnb. The city planning department already is at work drafting alternative measures based on three options it released earlier this year, which at the time ranged from the most permissive to one that would effectively ban such rentals. The city is hoping to hear the matter Oct. 23, said Planning Director Jeff Murphy . It will mark the sixth hearing at City Hall in two years to consider the issue of short-term rentals. Under Bry’s suggested regulations, homeowners would be allowed to rent out only their primary residences on a short-term bas...

Ruth Chase with two of her paintings at the opening of "West of Lincoln" Jennifer Swann Eddie Hadvina points to the painting of himself as an 11-year-old Boy Scout. In it, he’s wearing an olive green cap and a red kerchief with his khaki uniform, a skateboard in one hand and a trophy in the other. On his left shoulder is a patch representing Venice ’s Troop 34, which he joined at his mother's insistence. “That’s where all the trouble started,” says Hadvina, now 56 and sporting a gray goatee. “That’s where I met all my Venice Hoodlum friends ,” he says, referring to a street gang that was active in the neighborhood in the 1970s. Hadvina's parents, both Hungarian immigrants, visited Venice on their honeymoon in 1960 — Hadvina says he was conceived during that trip — and decided to move there two years later. Hadvina discovered skateboarding when the sport was still brand-new and being pioneered in the neighborhood by people like Stacy Peralta, one of his peers. But H...

Air hostess with Indigo airlines was found dead , fell from the third floor of her apartment in Kolkata Kolkata,August17 :An air hostess with a private airline was found dead on Wednesday, after allegedly falling from the third floor of her apartment in Kolkata. Khongsit Clara Bansha Rai , 23, was the lead cabin attendant of Indigo Airlines, said police. Two persons have been detained for questioning in connection with the incident. According to police, Rai was hosting her friend’s birthday party at her flat in Kestopur under Baguihati police station area . A passerby noticed her body at around 4.30 am and alerted the police. Police said they found two of her friends in the flat when they arrived.  “It looked like they were sleeping when we came. So far they said they had no clue about the incident until police the police came. They are being questioned,” said a police officer. Rai’s body has been sent for postmortem. “An unnatural suo moto case has been registered. We have questio...

Collect this idea Rooftop lounge at The Dylan in West Hollywood As the second-largest city in the U.S. with the biggest population in California, Los Angeles has mountains, beaches and deserts all within a short driving distance . In addition to a multitude of outdoor activities, L.A. offers job opportunities galore ; its diverse economy is the third largest in the world, after Tokyo and New York. Some of L.A.’s biggest industries include culture , fashion, education, sports, entertainment, medicine and a booming startup tech field that is thriving on the Westside ( nicknamed Silicon Beach ). Los Angeles is often called the creative capital of the world , as one in six residents works in the creative industries of music, TV or film. Not surprisingly, the city has a thriving arts scene . There are more than 800 museums and art galleries in Los Angeles County —   more per person than any other city in the world. And for night owls, the nightclub and restaurant scene offers plenty of...