Tag: Transportation
3 years’ probation issued in Puerto Rico cruise ship death
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window...
Millie Hughes-Fulford, trailblazing astronaut, dies at 75
SAN FRANCISCO — Millie Hughes-Fulford, a trailblazing astronaut and scientist who became the first female payload specialist to fly in space for NASA, died...
Survivor of bus-train crash killed in shootout with deputies
ODESSA, Texas — Authorities have released the name of a West Texas man who was killed in a shootout with sheriff's deputies late last...
Timeline: Yemen war began in 2014 when Houthis seized Sanaa
CAIRO — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire....
Latest rail plan would put tunnel under Long Island Sound
President Joe Biden’s promise to improve the nation’s infrastructure has renewed interest in the decades-old idea of a high-speed railroad connecting New York and...
US Coast Guard searching for 6 boaters off the Florida coast
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard continued its search for six people Saturday, three days after their boat apparently capsized off Florida's...
Mercedes recalls vehicles for emergency-call location error
NEW YORK — Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 1.3 million vehicles because the software in their emergency-call systems could send responders to the wrong...
Wrong-way crash kills 3 people on Indianapolis freeway
INDIANAPOLIS — Three people have died after a motorist driving in the wrong direction on an Indianapolis freeway struck another vehicle head-on.
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