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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: Prosecution, Milwaukee, Justice System, Road Accidents, Road Transportation
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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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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: Prosecution, Glenwood, Crimes, Defense, Road Transportation
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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: Meteorological Disasters, Avalanches and Landslides, Rivers, Road Transportation, Trips and Vacations
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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, Road Transportation, Colleges and Universities, Gainesville, Petroleum Industry
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LIRR to resume 'fairly normal' service after derailment
alfonso.castillo@newsday.comThe Long Island Rail Road is expected to resume "fairly normal" westbound service on the Ronkonkoma branch in time for Friday morning's rush hour, after several cars of a New York & Atlantic Railway freight train derailed in Deer Park Thursday, an LIRR...Tags: Railway Transportation, Railway Accidents, Long Island Rail Road, Deer Park (Cook, Illinois), Glendale (Queens, New York)
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Flooding, avalanches, mudslides close Washington state highways, stalling commerce
Associated Press WriterCENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) — Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes Thursday, brought freight trains to a standstill and stranded hundreds of trucks along the major highways that link...Tags: Seattle, Meteorological Disasters, Avalanches and Landslides, Rivers, Road Transportation
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Garmin Navigational Software Update Supplies Drivers With Fuel-Efficient Routes
Edmunds.comGarmin International announced today that it's offering a free software update for the company's stand-alone Nuvi 205- and 705-series personal travel assistants that allows drivers to select the most fuel-efficient route and to track their fuel usage. The...
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