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Mexico gives some travelers pause
When Deborah Johannes visits her family's beach cottage in the Mexican village of Popotla, just south of Rosarito, she travels, sans jewelry, in a low-profile Jeep Patriot. "You don't go driving a BMW in Mexico," the La Caņada Flintridge resident said....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Family, New Year's Day, Mexico City, Cabo San Lucas (Mexico)
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Chinese tourists' spending in the U.S. takes off
Minutes after arriving by bus at an outlet mall in Cabazon, a dozen or so Chinese tourists hustled out to buy luggage that they planned to stuff with high-end clothes, shoes and bags. But not Guoshing Cui, a Samsung supervisor from Guangzhou. He made...
Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Tour Operations Industry, International Travel, Chinese Restaurants, Arts and Culture
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Washington bridge collapse: 'A white flash, and cold water'
SEATTLE — Dan Sligh was on his way to a camping trip with his wife and Navy colleagues when he noticed the oversized truck in front of him on Interstate 5 seemed about four feet too wide on the right side for the bridge they were approaching near...
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, Disasters and Accidents, Mount Vernon, Building Material
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I-5 bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on'
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." "I hit the brakes and we went off," Sligh told reporters from a...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, National Transportation Safety Board, Jay Inslee, Disasters and Accidents
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I-5 bridge collapse caused by truck hitting span
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The Interstate 5 bridge collapse into the Skagit River was caused by an oversize truck hitting the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. "For reasons unknown at this point in time the semi struck the overhead...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, National Transportation Safety Board, Jay Inslee, Disasters and Accidents, Highway Transportation
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Plant a tree, save the Amazon
Viridian, a Connecticut-based clean energy company, is taking travelers to plant trees in the Amazon. On May 2, two Viridian employees and 28 volunteer travelers visited the Mamori region of the Brazilian Amazon on the company’s fourth trip to...
Tags: Brazil, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Travelers hit the roads and skies for Memorial Day weekend
As people across Southern California prepare to kick off the summer travel season, transportation officials are reminding commuters to plan for traffic and to play it safe over Memorial Day weekend. Drivers getting out of town for the long weekend...Tags: Human Interest, Los Angeles International Airport, Disneyland Park, Holidays, Memorial Day
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Target, Music Theater, Santa Claus (fictional character), Environmental Politics, Chris Young (baseball, outfielder)
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'Unusual condition' on track before New York-area train crash
NEW YORK — The conductor of a train involved in a derailment and crash outside New York City last week noticed an "unusual condition" on the track before the cars went off the rails, and the area where the wreck occurred had recently undergone...Tags: New York City, National Transportation Safety Board, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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A sober approach to drunk driving
In its new report on how to reduce drunken driving deaths, the National Transportation Safety Board states its goal in the title: "Reaching Zero." The agency thinks it is irreproachable to try to ensure that no one ever dies in an alcohol-related...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, National Transportation Safety Board, Drunk Driving, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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Idea to cut BAC limit fuels talk
South Bend TribuneLowering the threshold for what is considered impaired driving is a good idea on principle, a host of local and state officials said. Whether any such lowering of the threshold becomes reality in Indiana, however, is far less certain, they said. The...Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, Politics, Mike Pence, Government, Executive Branch
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Getting drunken drivers off road
From the St. Louis Post-DispatchWhen bundled with a host of other suggestions aimed at curbing drunken driving, the National Transportation Safety Board's proposal that state governments should reduce the allowable blood-alcohol concentration to 0.05 percent is reasonable. If the...Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, Highway Transportation, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan
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