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French transport minister meets cycling groups after a traffic death sparks protests
PARIS (AP) — The French transport minister is expected to meet with cycling associations on Monday following the death of a cyclist in Paris after a dispute with a driver. The 27-year-old cyclist, Paul Varry, was allegedly deliberately run over last Tuesday by an SUV driver, who...
Funeral home in Poland apologizes after a corpse falls out of a hearse in traffic
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A funeral home in Poland issued an unusual apology on Saturday after a corpse that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street Friday in Stalowa Wola, a city in southeastern Poland, when...
Road rage shooting in LA leaves 1 dead, shuts down Interstate 5 for hours
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An apparent road rage shooting during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles killed one person and injured another, authorities said Friday. The shooting, which was reported Thursday just after 4 p.m., closed down the northbound lanes of the Interstate 5 freeway...
Pilot of larger plane was looking away from smaller plane in Atlanta airport mishap, report says
ATLANTA (AP) — The pilot of a larger plane was looking away from the tail of a smaller plane when the larger plane’s right wing hit the tail and knocked it over while taxiing at Atlanta’s airport on the morning of Sept. 10, according to an aviation safety report. The...
Technical problem at German air traffic control causes delays and some cancellations
BERLIN (AP) — A technical problem at Germany's air traffic control agency caused disruptions on Friday, with some flights canceled at Frankfurt Airport, the country's biggest. The air traffic control company DFS said the problem that arose Friday morning affected flight plans and...
Ohio girl concedes cutting off tanker that spilled chemical last year in Illinois, killing 5
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal report on a tanker-truck crash a year ago in central Illinois that spilled a toxic chemical and killed five people includes an interview with a 17-year-old Ohio girl who concedes that the truck was forced off the road when she passed it with the minivan she was...
Reid Airport expansion plans call for more passenger gates, could reduce delays
A plan to expand and modernize Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas — the seventh-busiest airport in North America — received an informal go-ahead from Clark County commissioners Tuesday. The proposal, presented by County Department of Aviation officials, would increase...
A partial bridge collapse in eastern Germany disrupts traffic. No one was injured
BERLIN (AP) — Officials are investigating why a concrete bridge partially collapsed in eastern Germany early Wednesday, disrupting a major traffic artery in Dresden and interrupting the heating system for a city nicknamed "Florence on the Elbe” for its Baroque architecture. No...
Cars collect troves of data about traffic and road hazards. Should they share it?
The secret to avoiding red lights during rush hour in Utah's largest city might be as simple as following a bus. Transportation officials have spent the past few years refining a system in which radio transmitters inside commuter buses talk directly to the traffic signals in the Salt...
Errant ostrich brings traffic to a halt in South Dakota after escaping from a trailer
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — An ostrich brought traffic to a halt in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Tuesday as motorists tried to lure and nudge the towering bird off a multilane thoroughfare. Drivers called Sioux Falls police just before noon to report the roughly 7-foot-tall bird in...
