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2 hrs ago | Scoop

Air New Zealand & StandTall help South Auckland Kids

Last week, Air New Zealand played host to around 60 local students from South Auckland schools.

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Related Topix: Airlines, Air New Zealand, Kids, Family

6 hrs ago | Patch.com

Boy With Cancer Gets Wish to Ride a Train

Submitted by the Grafton and Upton Railroad Brady Smith, of Webster, loves trains: freight trains in particular.

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Related Topix: Grafton, MA, Upton, MA, Webster, MA, Railroads, CSX Transportation, Worcester, MA, North Grafton, MA

10 hrs ago | Al Bawaba

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Peter Hartman, President and CEO of KLM and James Hogan, President and CEO of Etihad Airways celebrate the launch of Etihad Airways' flights between Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, have entered the second phase of their strategic partnership following the launch ... (more)

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Related Topix: Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, World News, Middle East, United Arab Emirates, Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft, Airbus A330, Boeing 747, Boeing Aircraft

Tue May 21, 2013

NBC New York

Exclusive: Man Directs Traffic for NJ Transit While Drunk

A man who doesn't work for New Jersey Transit but directed traffic at a bus lot in midtown while wearing an agency vest was regularly drunk on the job, possibly endangering commuters and pedestrians until NBC 4 New York began investigating.

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Related Topix: New Jersey Transit, Railroads

Newsday

Sale of Oyster Bay public works site OKd

Simon Property Group has sided with residents near the 39-acre former Cerro property in Syosset in their fight to stop the 750,000-square-foot mall proposed by Taubman Centers Inc.

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Related Topix: Oyster Bay, NY, Simon Group, Syosset, NY, Tauban Centers, Real Estate, Garden City, NY

The Globe and Mail

CP Rail says oil leaking after tank cars derail in Saskatchewan

A Canadian Pacific Rail train that derailed near the Village of Jansen, Sask., on May 21, 2013.

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Related Topix: Railroads, Canadian Pacific Railway, Parkers Prairie, MN

Denver Post

Lottery open for Cheyenne Frontier Days Train tickets

Because of the large demand for tickets on the July 20 Union Pacific Railroad special, the lottery system will determine purchasers.

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Related Topix: Railroads, Union Pacific Railroad, Denver, CO

Pensions & Investments

Austin's Capital Metropolitan Transportation keeps Cornerstone as consultant

Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Austin, Texas, rehired Cornerstone Advisors as investment consultant for its defined benefit pension plan and three 401 plans, according to a contract posted on procurement website Onvia DemandStar.

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Related Topix: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Railroads, Austin, TX, Pension

CNN

Can Dreamliner still live up to its name?

No longer grounded for safety concerns, United Flight 1 flew from Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Monday.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, Boeing 787, US News, Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing 777, us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel

Mon May 20, 2013

Patch.com

New Railroad Bridge Over Shermer Road Could be in Place by End of 2013

A new railroad bridge to replace the viaduct that collapsed in 2012 over Shermer Road could be in place by the end of the this year, under an expedited schedule recently released by Union Pacific Railroad , according to a village news release.

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Related Topix: Railroads, Union Pacific Railroad, Glenview, IL, Northbrook, IL

The Daily Breeze

Man jumps to his death from Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro

Authorities have not disclosed the identify of a Long Beach man who jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge over the weekend.

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Related Topix: San Pedro, CA, Long Beach, CA, Suicide, Port of Los Angeles

WHDH

Plane makes belly landing at Newark Airport

A US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said.

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Related Topix: Airlines, Piedmont Airlines, de Havilland DASH-8, Commercial Aircraft, Aircraft, de Havilland Aircraft

CBS 47

Southwest Airlines offers new flight to Washington

The control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport as seen from a Metro train stop March 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.

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Related Topix: Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Federal Aviation Administration, US News

KARE 11 TV

Delta CEO plans to add jobs in NE Minnesota

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says he plans to add jobs at the carrier's reservation center in the northeastern Minnesota city of Chisholm.

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Related Topix: Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Virginia, MN

MarketWatch

Jennifer Waters's Consumer Confidential: Get ready to pay more to fly

In fact, 2012 was a record year for extra-fee revenues: U.S. airlines raked in a staggering $6.03 billion in baggage and reservation-change fees, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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Related Topix: Northwest Airlines, Airlines

Reuters

Refile-Press Digest - Sunday British business - May 19

Roger Carr, Chairman of Centrica and outgoing president of the Confederation of British Industry, is the front runner to become the next chairman of Europe's largest defence contractor BAE Systems.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, BAE Systems, Aerospace-Defense, FirstGroup

Sun May 19, 2013

KTEN-TV Denison

Arkansas Best freezes nonunion pensions

Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp. says it is freezing its pension plan for employees who are not in a union.

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Related Topix: Arkansas Best, Trucking, ABF Freight System

Trinadad Express

Cut CAL to the bone

IF ANYONE can produce proof that there was a time when this country's state-owned national airline, in whatever incarnation, made a real profit over a sustained period, meaning at least one year, I would surrender my sanity and vote in the next election.

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Related Topix: Conrad Industries, Automakers, World News, Central America, Jamaica

Pasadena Star-News

Editorial: L.A. county should slow down on fee to limit traffic

Sometimes it seems there's a deliberate attempt by bureaucrats to use language as off-putting as possible with the purpose of creating a wall of boredom that only the most determined or demented will take the time to penetrate.

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Related Topix: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Railroads, Culver City, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Opinion

Ananova

FirstGroup Plots Route To 500m Rights Issue

The company behind Greyhound buses and the First Capital Connect rail franchise is poised to tap shareholders for 500m in new funds months after it lost out in the fiasco over the West Coast mainline.

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Related Topix: FirstGroup, Business News

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