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Hurricane Sandy: Few flight cancellations at Bob Hope Airport
Jet Blue canceled two New York-bound flights from Bob Hope Airport on Monday as Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Eastern Seaboard. Flight 350 and 358 to John F. Kennedy International Airport were canceled, as were flights 355 and 359 coming out of New York,...
Tags: New York City, Air Transportation Delays, Google+, Bob Hope, Los Angeles International Airport
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Tunisian man charged in terrorist case
NEW YORK — A Tunisian citizen who prosecutors say radicalized one of the men accused of plotting to derail a Toronto-to-New York passenger train tried to obtain a U.S. work visa so he could help carry out terrorist attacks in this country, law...Tags: FBI, Manhattan (New York City), Politics, Trials, Transportation Accidents
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JetBlue Airways: Fort Lauderdale-Port-au-Prince service to begin Dec. 5
Sun SentinelValue carrier JetBlue Airways on Thursday announced plans for new twice-daily nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince starting Dec. 5. The new...Tags: Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Fort Lauderdale, Air Transportation Industry, JetBlue Airways, Haiti
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Solar airplane begins first leg of trip across America
A spindly solar-powered aircraft took to the skies Friday from Moffett Federal Airfield, near San Francisco, on a pioneering coast-to-coast flight that will not use one ounce of fossil fuel. The plane, called Solar Impulse HB-SIA, has an immense 208-...Tags: Swiss Confederation, Energy Saving, Travel, Air Transportation Industry, Environmental Issues
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U.S. government begins intelligence review in Boston bombing case
WASHINGTON — The CIA and departments of Justice and Homeland Security have begun a high-level internal review of whether intelligence was mishandled prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, though President Obama and his top advisors said they had...
Tags: FBI, White House, High Blood Pressure, Politics, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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On the road with autism
On a flight from Israel to London a few years ago, the airplane video display wouldn't work for Margalit Francus' teenage son. The boy, who was 14 or 15 at the time, grew overwhelmingly frustrated. He screamed, he cried and he threatened to open the plane...Tags: Travel, Transportation Industry, Family, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Trips and Vacations
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Boston bombs showed some expertise
WASHINGTON — Investigators said the two Boston Marathon bombs were triggered by long-range remote controls for toy cars — a more sophisticated design than originally believed — bolstering a theory that the older suspect received bomb-...Tags: FBI, Electronics, Islam, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...Tags: Bill Shuster, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Air travelers begin feeling the effects of sequestration
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday at Los Angeles...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Air Transportation Industry, U.S. Congress, Trips and Vacations, Transportation
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Man fined $35,000 for conspiring to smuggle cigarettes through Md.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., man was placed on probation for 11 months and fined $35,000 after pleading guilty Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to conspiring to smuggle 2,568 cartons of cigarettes through Maryland. Abdelaziz M. Abdelaziz, 43, pleaded...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, LaGuardia Airport, New York City, Maryland State Police, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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History of US bombings, failed attempts
Here is a list of some of the worst bombings in the U.S. dating to the 1800s, including some famous attempts that failed: — April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing two people and...
Tags: Trials, Martin Luther King Day, Al-Qaeda, Times Square, Sports
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Welterweight champion Robert Guerrero arrested on gun charge
WBC welterweight champion Robert Guerrero, who was in New York this week promoting his May 4 fight against unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr., was arrested Thursday at John F. Kennedy International Airport when he tried to take a gun onto a plane. Police...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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