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Summary Box: A look at traffic deaths sliding
DEATHS DROP OFF: Traffic deaths in Illinois last year slid 16 percent to 1,042 from 1,248 in 2007, while nationwide the highway death toll for 2008 has been on pace to be the lowest in more than four decades. THE GAS FACTOR: Officials in many states say...Tags: Road Transportation, Petroleum Industry
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Getting tough on drunken driving will cost Wis.
Associated Press WriterGetting tough on drunken drivers won't be cheap. Two of the most talked about measures to strengthen the state's drunken driving laws come with large price tags, which may doom them given a projected $5.4 billion state budget shortfall....Tags: Road Accidents, Economic Policy, Trials, State Budgets, Police
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Boeing plane orders, deliveries fall in 2008
AP Manufacturing WriterBoeing Co.'s airplane deliveries and orders fell in 2008 as a strike temporarily halted its commercial aircraft operations and airlines grounded planes and reduced flying to cope with high fuel prices and lower demand. The Chicago company on Thursday...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Air Transportation Industry, Air Transportation, Boeing Co.
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Ill. traffic deaths down 16 percent for 2008
Associated Press WriterThe soaring gasoline prices that fueled anger among motorists may have contributed to a drop in highway deaths in Illinois and at least a dozen other states as conservation-minded drivers eased up on their mileage and gas pedals, officials say....Tags: Alabama, Health and Safety at Work, Road Transportation, Teen-agers, Petroleum Industry
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Lighter volume leading to changes in postal routes
Associated Press WriterThink you know what time your mail arrives each day? Guess again. The U.S. Postal service is reviewing all of its city routes nationwide and changing some of them to cut costs because mail volume is dropping during the recession. Nationwide, the...Tags: Retirement, Mail Order Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Body found along Interstate 4 exit ramp in Daytona Beach
Sentinel Staff WriterDaytona Beach Police are on the scene of a body found along an Interstate 4 exit ramp in that city. State troopers were dispatched to the exit ramp leading from I-4 to U.S. Highway 92 scene shortly before 1 p.m. because of the possibility that the man...Tags: Interstate 4, Road Transportation
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Family finds Orlando man's body found along Interstate 4 exit ramp in Daytona Beach
Sentinel Staff WriterDaytona Beach Police are investigating the death of an Orlando man whose body was found this afternoon along an Interstate 4exit ramp in that city. Donald Heintz, 50, left his home to go to Daytona Beach for work and a meeting, but never showed up at the...Tags: Interstate 4, Road Transportation
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Lighter mail volume leads Postal Service to change some city routes, affecting delivery times
Associated Press WriterINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Think you know what time your mail arrives each day? Think again. The U.S. Postal Service is reviewing all its city routes nationwide and changing some of them to cut costs because mail volume is dropping during the recession....Tags: Retirement, Mail Order Industry, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Freight derailment slows LIRR evening rush
john.valenti@newsday.comEvening rush-hour commuters on the Long Island Rail Road are experiencing delays on the Ronkonkoma branch after a freight train derailment earlier Thursday just east of the Deer Park train station. As of 5:00 p.m., the LIRR advised: -Eastbound trains...Tags: Farmingdale, Injuries, Glendale (Queens, New York), Deer Park (Cook, Illinois), Railway Accidents
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Woman charged with robbery in Hampton hotel parking lot
247-7838Police have arrested a woman wanted for the armed robbery of a 33-year-old man in a hotel parking lot in Hampton last year. Patricia Taylor, 21, from Long Creek Lane, Hampton, was arrested Tuesday. She has been charged with robbery, use of a firearm...Tags: Police Arrests, Crimes, Police, Defense, Prosecution
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Northwest flooding closes roads, stalls commerce
Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes today, brought freight trains to a standstill and stranded hundreds of trucks along the major highways that link Seattle's busy ports with...Tags: Avalanches and Landslides, Rivers, Meteorological Disasters, Bodies of Water, Portland (Multnomah, Oregon)
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Tens of thousands gather at Dolphins Stadium in anticipation of BCS title game
South Florida Sun-SentinelUnder sunny skies, and with rising anticipation, tens of thousands of fans gathered on the east side of Dolphins Stadium Thursday afternoon hours before the helmet-thumping showdown between the University of Florida and the University of Oklahoma for...Tags: Oklahoma, Colleges and Universities, Gainesville, Road Transportation, Petroleum Industry
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