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"Flt. attendant said that it was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok," she wrote. The L Word actress Leisha Hailey says she was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after kissing her girlfriend. In a series of tweets Monday, Hailey wrote that she and fashion designer Nina Garduno, who have been together since 2006, "were escorted off the plane for getting upset about the issue." "I have been discriminated against by @SouthwestAir," she tweeted. "Flt. attendant said that it was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok."

Forty-four-year-old Douglas Herbstsommer of Gilbert, Ariz., wasn't seriously injured Sunday when he was stung by a venomous Arizona bark scorpion while going through his luggage.

Southwest Airlines discovered fuselage cracks on four of the airplanes that it grounded for inspections Wednesday, the airline said today.The Dallas-based carrier took 38 Boeing 737 planes out of service to check for cracks in the exterior above and below passenger windows. It also checked five planes that were already parked for maintenance, and one plane that had recently been retired from the fleet.A spokeswoman said that 34 of the planes passed the inspections and were returned to service today."Four were held for surface repairs, and we expect to have them back in service by the weekend," said spokeswoman Brandy...

A majority of the Dallas City Council supports either an immediate or eventual full repeal of the Wright amendment – as long as some gates at Love Field are eliminated, District 10 representative Bill Blaydes said Monday. "There is a general consensus across the council that we're willing to give up some of the gates, and the mayor seems to be buying into it," Mr. Blaydes said. But most of his colleagues declined to take a public stand on the flight restrictions on Monday. And Mayor Laura Miller, who as early as last fall suggested demolishing the gates in the...

A widely recognized rhyme -- and how it was used on a flight -- are the focus of a case headed for trial in federal court in Kansas City, Kan.Louise Sawyer, 46, of Merriam, and Grace Fuller, 48, of Lenexa, have sued Southwest Airlines alleging that they were discriminated against and suffered physical and emotional distress on a crowded February 2001 flight after an attendant uttered the rhyme.Trying to get passengers to take their seats, Southwest Airlines flight attendant Jennifer Cundiff said over the intercom, "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go."The two African-American women, who are...