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Motel 6 Updates the Classic Road Trip with Contest to Mark 50 Years
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, Texas, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Road-trip fanatics, get packing: In honor of its 50th Anniversary, Motel 6 is issuing a call for three "Open Road Correspondents" to travel and report on some of the best stretches of American ...
Road trip! See roadside America on somebody else's dime - Motel 6 seeks ...Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)

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Los Angeles Times
Motel 6 chain to be sold for $1.9 billion
Vancouver Sun
Accor SA, Europe's largest hotel operator, agreed to sell the Motel 6 US budget-hotel chain to Blackstone Group LP for US$1.9-billion to cut debt and focus on more profitable businesses. The French company's shares rose the most in more than six months ...
Motel 6 Has Been SoldSeeking Alpha
Blackstone Moves Into Motel 6Wall Street Journal
Accor selling Motel 6, Studio 6Los Angeles Times
Blue MauMau -Calgary Herald
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Bloomberg
Accor to Sell Motel 6 Chain to Blackstone Fund for $1.9 Billion
Bloomberg
Blackstone Group LP (BX), the New York- based private-equity firm that manages $48 billion in real estate assets, agreed to buy the Motel 6 lodging chain from Accor SA (AC) for $1.9 billion, adding to its hospitality holdings.
Accor to sell Motel 6 to Blackstone for $1.9 blnReuters
Accor Sells Motel 6 Chain To Blackstone For $1.9BWall Street Journal
Motel 6 being sold to private group for $1.9 billionUSA TODAY
MarketWatch -Boston.com -Wall St. Cheat Sheet
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USA TODAY
Motel 6: Win a 'green' road trip across the USA
USA TODAY
Along the way, the winners will stay at Motel 6 locations that have been updated with green features such as 80% recycled material flooring, low-flow toilets, high-efficiency heating and cooling units and energy-efficient lighting.
Will you answer this call of the Open Road?Amarillo.com (blog)

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CBS Local
Motel 6 Standoff Ends Without Incident
Patch.com
By Sarah Flagg A standoff that lasted nearly five hours ended without incident Thursday at the Motel 6 on Lindbergh Boulevard. At 11:30 am, St. Louis County Police officers from the Affton precinct arrived at the hotel with a warrant for a male suspect ...
Motel 6 Standoff Suspect ChargedCBS Local
Bismarck man charged after St. Louis County standoffSTLtoday.com

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Martial arts master's neo-Nazi past surfaces
News On 6
Back then, he did six years in prison for beating up two homeless people and a motel owner.More >> Andrew Lee Patterson still shaves his head, like he did back in his white supremacist skinhead days. Back then, he did six years in prison for beating up ...

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Zachary Clampitt Charged After Motel 6 Standoff
Riverfront Times (blog)
Someone tipped off the police that their suspect was holed up at the Motel 6. Clampitt refused orders to leave the room, and rather than force the issue and risk injury to anyone, police attempted to negotiate with him. After three-and-a-half-hours of ...
Police Charge Man in Motel 6 StandoffPatch.com

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