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Minnesota news in brief at 8:58 p.m. CDT
The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday aimed at improving the safety of the nation's bridges, nearly a year after the deadly collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Minneapolis. The vote was 367-55. The legislation would authorize an...Tags: Road Transportation, Polls, Quinnipiac University, Parliament, Barack Obama
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Sewage spills into Glen Burnie waterway
By a Sun reporterTwenty-five thousand gallons of raw sewage have spilled into a Glen Burnie waterway, prompting the Anne Arundel County Department of Health today to close Furnace Creek and urge people to stay away from it. Yesterday's rainstorm knocked out power to...Tags: Fishing, Glen Burnie, Bodies of Water, Rivers
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Man stable after stabbing in Midtown
msweeney@am-ny.com43-year-old man was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital Thursday night after being stabbed on the corner of 28th Street and Broadway. Police said it was shortly before 2 p.m. when someone stabbed the unidentified man, who was illegally selling...Tags: Subway Transportation
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CTA worker injured apparently after touching 3rd rail
A CTA worker was seriously injured Thursday when she apparently touched the electrified third rail while working near the Belmont station on Chicago's North Side, authorities said. The woman was flagging Red and Brown Line trains moving through a...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Health and Safety at Work
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FAA: Chicago airport traffic declines
Federal officials say traffic dropped at both Chicago's O'Hare International and Midway Airports in the first six months of 2008. O'Hare's 4.2 percent decrease in flights over the same time period last year was the biggest drop among the top five...Tags: Midway, Continental Airlines Incorporated, Air Transportation, Air Transportation Industry, O'Hare
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MTA votes to seek sales tax hike to fund L.A. County transit, roads
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority board today voted overwhelmingly to seek a half-cent sales tax increase that could raise between $30 billion and $40 billion for transit and highway projects, including the first link of a long-awaited subway to...Tags: San Gabriel, Subway Transportation Industry, State Budgets, Road Transportation, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Civil rights groups want consent searches banned
Associated Press WriterCivil rights groups on Thursday asked Gov. Rod Blagojevich to bar state police from conducting consent searches during traffic stops, citing four years of data that show minorities are searched more often than whites. In 2007, minorities underwent...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Northwestern University, Executive Branch, Vehicles, Health and Safety at School
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New York City beaches are back
dfreedlander@am-ny.comIn the sultry New York summer of 1988, Rick Astley and INXS ruled the airwaves, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was the hit movie, and New York City beaches were awash in filth. Headlines at the time blared the alarming evidence. "Shore Pollution Driving Away...Tags: Coney Island, Long Island, Bensonhurst, Beach Vacations, Environmental Politics
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South Chicago woman dies in crash on I-80 near Marseilles, Ill.
A Chicago woman died Wednesday and her fiance was injured when their car crashed on Interstate Highway 80 in LaSalle County as they traveled home from a family reunion in Nebraska, authorities said. Cynthia Thomas, 58, of the South Chicago neighborhood,...Tags: Road Transportation, Vehicles, Hospitals and Clinics, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Transportation Accidents
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My so-called glamorous life as a foreign correspondent
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe blast of insecticide jolted me awake. A Mexicana flight attendant had just doused me with a chemical cloud while her colleague explained over the intercom that the Cuban Health Ministry requires arriving aircraft to be fumigated. "The substance isn't...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Earthquakes, John Paul II, Wars and Interventions, Disasters
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