NEW YORK (AP) — A group representing thousands of taxi drivers said last week it will idle cabs in September if the city goes ahead with a plan to require installation of GPS tracking systems.
Starting October 1, as the city’s 13,000 taxis come up for inspections they must have the GPS equipment along with touch-screen […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — Hurricane Katrina victims whose homes and businesses were destroyed when floodwaters breached levees in the 2005 storm cannot recover money from their insurance companies for the damages, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The case could affect thousands of rebuilding residents and business owners in Louisiana.
Robert Hartwig, chief economist at the […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — Seven years ago, police in North Carolina covered shooting victim Marcelo Cruz with a tarp, believing he was dead. He wasn’t. Cruz survived the street fight shooting, but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
The Mexican native rebuilt his life, and at 26, was living in Minneapolis, driving a specially equipped […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — The search for bodies in the Mississippi River was painstakingly slow as divers navigated debris and coped with low visibility after Wednesday’s deadly bridge collapse, officials said.
About 15 divers from local counties did a bank-to-bank search Thursday afternoon and found 11 vehicles, including an 18-wheeler, said Lynn Schwartz, Communication Specialist for […]
