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People checking out of a hotel are usually in a hurry, whether on their way to catch a plane, return a rental car or get back to their families. Certainly they’re too busy to notice or care about a measly extra charge for 75 cents for an unrequested newspaper.

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek says he snapped his Achilles tendon while running after a burglar who had stolen cash, a bracelet and other items from his San Francisco hotel room. The 71-year-old Trebek tells KGO-TV that he also injured his other leg while falling down during the chase early Wednesday. He was on crutches later Wednesday when he hosted the National Geographic World Championship at Google headquarters in Mountain View.

Spend the night at a hotel and get a call from the front desk and it could turn out to be a con artist trying to steal your credit card number.

A New York hotel is promising to buy "panic buttons" for its housekeepers after an Egyptian businessman was accused of attacking a maid in one of its rooms. The Pierre Hotel said it would give the devices to housekeepers so they can signal for help.

Faced with a legal and media onslaught, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is pulling together a crack team of investigators, former spies and media advisers to fight back against charges he sexually assaulted a hotel chambermaid.

As guests show up equipped with iPhones, iPads and other devices, hotels are learning that they want to do anything but pay for in-room technology.

Many hotels and condo complexes in Ocean City, Md., are giving away gas cards of up to $50.

Your next hotel stay doesn’t have to break the bank, thanks to Travel+Leisure’s list of the best affordable hotels.

The British tourist who caught a 1-year-old child as she fell from the fourth-floor balcony of an Orlando, Florida, hotel was honored by government and business leaders Friday.

As the economy recovers, hotel rates are following suit and business travelers are confronting the fact that it’s not necessarily the rate you pay, but what you get for it that matters.