Baby car seats made by Dorel Juvenile Group [DJG] have been subject to a recall. Reports suggest that the total seats being recalled amount to over 750,000. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made the announcement that the car seats were being recalled due to safety restraint issues. The issue seems to be with the [...]
Feb 15 2011 | Posted in
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Most of the southeast of Texas was subject to a Winter Storm Warning until this afternoon. Roads with icy conditions have caused closures from Friday morning. All main lanes from Beechnut to Bellaire were closed just before 8 a.m. Ice also closed the Southwest Freeway at Spur 527. Plus, all of Beltway 8 was closed [...]
Feb 4 2011 | Posted in
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Hundreds of motorists in Chicago had to either spend the night in their vehicles, or just abandon them altogether, after getting caught up in the storm. As people struggled to get the latest weather information and forecasting from the National Weather Service, they had more problems, as the web servers tried to cope with up [...]
Feb 2 2011 | Posted in
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Metra Train Schedule: Due to the severe blizzard warning for the Chicago region, Metra will be providing extra service in the early afternoon from its downtown terminals on several of its lines to accommodate customers who will be departing work early on Tuesday, Feb. 1st. This modified schedule will mean that some regularly scheduled rush [...]
Feb 1 2011 | Posted in
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According to the government profit margins for the big airlines in the U.S. are set to be the highest for at least a decade. Looks like all those multi-billion dollar losses that have been suffered over the last few years could finally be coming to an end. Many airlines have been cutting back on the [...]
Jan 25 2011 | Posted in
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Vision Airlines a low cost air travel provider will expand into several regional Florida airports to offer more options to Sunshine State vacationers. Now, travelers will have a low-cost option to fly into Destin, one of Florida’s cherished vacation spots along the Emerald Coast. Vision Airlines will offer direct flights to Destin from several airports, [...]
Jan 18 2011 | Posted in
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Lynsie Murley the woman who sued the TSA for them exposing her breast has now settled out of court. Lynsie Murley, 24, of Amarillo, Texas, filed a lawsuit against the TSA last year, accusing the agency of negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The incident, which occurred in May 2008 at a Corpus Christi [...]
Jan 14 2011 | Posted in
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NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, is rushing to be at his wife’s side, Gabrielle Giffords, after she was shot earlier today, at close range in the head. It has been reported that Mark Kelly was traveling by private jet and expected to arrive in Tucson at 3:00pm. A family friend, who owns the jet has been [...]
Jan 8 2011 | Posted in
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Another 1,000 American troops are expected to be deployed to Afghanistan soon, according to a U.S. military official, in a report from CNN earlier today. The intention will be for 1,000 marines to support the expansion of security efforts in the south of Afghanistan. They are expected to be on the ground for a few [...]
Jan 6 2011 | Posted in
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John Hofmeister, a former Shell executive has painted a gloomy picture of the future, as he predicts $5 a gallon, gas prices by 2012. If $5 a gallon was not bad enough, Hofmeister is also predicting that supply of gas is going to be outstripped by the demand, before the end of the decade, despite [...]
Dec 28 2010 | Posted in
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