Transportation News

SAN PEDRO, Calif. -- Decommissioned battleship, the USS Iowa, is spending Memorial Day weekend on its final voyage to San Pedro, where it will serve as a living museum.

The USS Iowa passes under the Golden Gate Bridge as it's towed out of San Francisco on Saturday, May 26, 2012, The 887-foot long, 58,000-ton battlewagon is being towed to the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, where it will be transformed into an interactive naval museum.

An air traffic controller works at the Atlanta TRACON, or terminal radar approach control, facility in Peachtree City, Ga.

The George Washington Bridge is pictured in this 2011 file photo. Christina McQuaid, 26, of Leonia, broke an ankle after getting her foot stuck in a grate in the catwalk area of the bridge's lower level this morning.

This April 21, 2001 file photo shows the battleship USS Iowa being towed through the Carquinez Straits near Benicia, Calif., as it makes its way toward the mothball fleet in Suisun Bay.

The 33-year-old Norwalk man formerly worked at Virgin Atlantic Airways in Norwalk.

This photo, taken May 11, shows one of several Union Pacific communication poles that was recently discarded in the Gilman Gorge section of the Eagle River.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says its police have caught a trucker who used a fake license plate to evade tolls.

A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says a plane flying from Tulsa, Okla., to Tunica, Miss., crashed in western Arkansas -- leaving two people with what authorities describe as minor injuries.

As American Airlines made its final stand Friday in U.S. bankruptcy court, the judge finished the lengthy hearing on a surprising note by telling the courtroom that the airline and its unions need to work toward a deal.

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn't inhale. In his 1995 memoir "Dreams of My Father," Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr.

David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

Authorities in New York City say they've cracked a 33-year-old case that helped focus national attention on missing children - the disappearance of Etan Patz .

David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

In this Sept. 16, 2010 file photo, David Simon, CEO of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group speaks at the Economic Club of Indiana's speaker series luncheon at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

This July 7, 2005 file photo shows Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Shawn Moreno patroling a Los Angeles subway.

Companies that rely on Canadian Pacific Railway to move their products across the country are looking at their alternatives on Day 2 of a walkout by 4,800 employees.

MANKATO, Minn. - Union Pacific Railroad and the family of a man killed in a Blue Earth County train crash have reached a legal settlement.

Federal authorities are investigating how a private jet's main cabin door became an unconventional hazard at a South Florida golf course.

Airline stocks rose on Thursday after a J.P. Morgan analyst raised his estimates of the companies' future profits because of the recent drop in jet fuel prices.