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Bridge problem stalls Long Beach LIRR service
john.valenti@newsday.comA malfunctioning railroad bridge across Reynolds Channel caused a suspension in Long Island Rail Road service into and out of Long Beach on Thursday, officials said. The problem affected three trains, forcing the cancellation of one of them and delayed...Tags: Long Beach (California), Beach Vacations, Long Island Rail Road, Long Beach (New York), Railway Transportation
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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, Executive Branch, Vehicles, Regional Authority, Government
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Trial set in suit to block Delta-Northwest deal
AP Business WriterA federal judge has set a trial date for a lawsuit by a group of airline passengers that seeks to block Delta Air Lines Inc. from acquiring Northwest Airlines Corp. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will preside over the Nov. 5 trial in San Francisco....Tags: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Air Transportation, Corporate Crime, Litigation
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Did cops cross forbidden lines? Ill. court says no
Associated Press WriterThe Illinois Supreme Court backed police Thursday in two cases where officers were accused of improperly arresting suspects who had crossed important boundaries -- a state line and a front door. In one case, Chicago police made a drug arrest on the...Tags: Road Accidents, Road Transportation, Court Administration, Illinois Supreme Court, Drug Trafficking
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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: Glen Burnie, Rivers, Bodies of Water, Fishing
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Railroad repairs in Iowa could take a year
State officials say it could take up to year to repair and rebuild hundreds of miles of railroad tracks and 17 bridges damaged or destroyed by last month's flooding in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Transportation say Iowa's freight trains had losses that...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Floods, House, Railway Transportation
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Big Rig Overturns, Sparks Fire on 5 Freeway
Associated PressCAMP PENDLETON -- A big-rig crashed in flames and touched off a brush blaze that shut down southbound Interstate 5 for an hour at dawn Thursday in the Camp Pendleton area. Fuel tanks on the Vons grocery truck burst into flames when big-rig overturned...Tags: Road Transportation
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Farmers seek more flood control for Kankakee River
A group of northwestern Indiana farmers who say some of their cropland flooded this spring because state officials failed to repair a breached river bank are pushing for more local control over the region's flood-prone waterways. Members of Farmers...Tags: Floods
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Winter on the southern side of Illinois
Tribune staff reporterI love the wild ruggedness of canyons, and Ghost Dance Canyon doesn't disappoint. Sure, its walls don't stretch hundreds and hundreds of feet toward the sky, like something you'll find in the southern Utah red rock country, for instance. But, while...Tags: Wildlife, Landforms, Superman, Forestry and Timber, Road Transportation
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Fireworks arrest in Stony Brook
bill.mason@newsday.comAfter a trucking company tipped off police, a Stony Brook man was arrested Wednesday at his home on charges of possession of $5,000 worth of illegal fireworks, police said. Christopher Passidomo, 51, of Sycamore Circle, Stony Brook, was charged with...Tags: Stony Brook, Central Islip
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