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Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated
Two major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen ...
A slowed, darkened NYC begins to stir to life
Two days after superstorm Sandy brought New York to a standstill, residents itching to get back to work and their old lives noticed small signs that ...
Md. experiences full variety of Sandy's wrath
On Maryland's jagged coastline, hurricane-riled waves destroyed an iconic pier and floodwaters forced caskets from graves in a town famed for crabbing
W.Va. blizzard warning as Appalachia storm blows
Wet snow and high winds spinning off the edge of superstorm Sandy spread blizzard conditions over parts of West Virginia and neighboring Appalachian ...
Vroom! Fastest US road, 85 mph, opens in Texas
Motorists, start your engines. It's opening day for the last leg of a Texas toll road with the nation's fastest speed limit. The final 41-mile stretch ...
Dust storm shuts down interstate in northern Okla.
A massive dust storm swirling reddish-brown clouds over northern Oklahoma triggered a multi-vehicle accident along a major interstate Thursday, ...
The trials of cycling in bike-hostile Moscow
One popular joke in Moscow goes: "When the drunken driver was taken to the police station he was already sober. Why? Traffic jams." With congestion ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Infrastructure
The issue: From bridges to broadband, America's infrastructure is supposed to be speeding along commerce, delivering us to work and piping energy and ...
From North Korea's Oz to its forgotten cities
From here, Pyongyang can seem like a dream. At what passes for rush hour on a Wednesday morning, there are few sounds in Kaesong's main traffic circle ...
Review: Apple's maps app lets you follow the voice
Apple's new maps app came out the day I started a 2,243-mile road trip through four states. As complaints about it trickled in and Apple's CEO ...
LA mayor declares 'Carmageddon II' a success
Traffic was flowing again on the city's busiest freeway following a weekend closure that was hailed a success by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa after it ...
LA drivers steer clear of 'Carmageddon' scenario
The demolition of a bridge that forced the weekend closure of one of the nation's busiest freeways is on schedule, while many Los Angeles drivers ...
DUI tragedy forces Russian road safety rethink
It took a weekend road tragedy to jolt Russia into action over one of its most deadly threats: a chronic culture of drunken driving. Five orphaned ...
Key Miss. River lock reopens after emergency fixes
Shipping resumed Thursday through one of the Mississippi River's busiest locks, after crews completed emergency repairs that took days and that ...
Older drivers face confusing array of license laws
Jerry Wiseman notices it's harder to turn and check his car's blind spots at age 69 than it was at 50. So the Illinois man and his wife took a ...
Storms cause flooding in Nev., Southern Calif.
Intense thunderstorms drenched parts of the Southwest on Tuesday, delaying flights and stranding motorists in the Las Vegas area and flooding two ...
80 dead in China quakes; rescue efforts hampered
Blocked mountain roads were hampering rescue efforts after twin earthquakes struck southwestern China and killed at least 80 people, leaving officials ...
Texas to open fastest US highway with 85 mph limit
Texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country, giving eager drivers a chance to rip through a trip between two ...
Palestinian taxi drivers halt traffic in West Bank
Dozens of taxi drivers have snarled traffic in several West Bank cities to protest rising fuel prices and the government's refusal to allow them to ...
A region-by-region look at Hurricane Irene's toll
Hurricane Irene and its remnants raked the Caribbean, the eastern U.S. and Canada for more than a week a year ago. Though it never hit the U.S.
Coast Guard partially reopens Mississippi River
Authorities reopened the Mississippi River to some boat traffic Wednesday, hours after freeing a barge that ran aground in dangerously low waters ...
Feds, university test cars that can communicate
In a few weeks, about 2,800 cars, trucks and buses will start talking to each other on the streets of Ann Arbor, Mich., in a giant experiment that ...
Convention host cities gear up for traffic
During this summer's national political conventions, workers in downtown Tampa and Charlotte will face throngs of pedestrians snaking through ...
Motorists rescue woman, sister from burning car
Passing motorists who saw smoke billowing Thursday from a stand of pine trees along southern Mississippi's Interstate 10 rescued a woman and her ...