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Driving while using a cell phone found to quadruple crash risk
Using a cell phone while driving quadruples the chances of becoming involved in a crash - whether or not the motorist is using a hands-free device - according to a report released yesterday by a leading traffic safety advocacy group. Yet two-thirds of...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Cell Phones
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Oil tumbles below $44 a barrel, gas hits new low
AP Energy WriterOil tumbled below $44 a barrel Thursday and average gasoline prices slipped under $1.80 a gallon, both four year lows, as unemployment benefit claims hit a 26-year high and major companies announced more job cuts. The unprecedented decline in energy...Tags: Costco Wholesale Corporation, Commodity Markets, Layoffs and Downsizing, Gymnastics, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Florida news briefs
Forum Publishing GroupJuniorettes seek new members The Plantation Juniorettes are seeking new members. Sponsored by the Plantation Woman's Club, the group is open to teenage girls and offers community service and scholarship opportunities. Members host and model in a fashion...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Broward County, Dining and Drinking, Central Park
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Heavy rain, light spirits on roads
After driving more than 14 hours on a return trip from visiting relatives in Athens, Ga., the Daniel family got out of the rain and sat down to a table of fried seafood dinners yesterday afternoon at an Interstate 95 rest stop in Harford County.
They...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Holiday Vacations, Trips and Vacations, Thanksgiving, Chicago Weather
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Regaining traction
McClatchy/TribuneThe steep drop in gas prices might not be enough to save Detroit, but cheaper fuel undoubtedly has made it easier for dealers to unload the trucks and sport utility vehicles that have been gathering dust ever since oil's record price spike this past...Tags: Auto Trends, Ford, Petroleum Industry, Toyota, Passenger Cars
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AAA Michigan: State gas prices are down 3 cents
AAA Michigan says gasoline prices have fallen 3 cents per gallon over the past week to a statewide average of $1.72. Of the cities it surveys, AAA Michigan said Monday the cheapest price for self-serve regular fuel is in the Saginaw/Bay City area, where...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Automotive Equipment
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Orlando-area gasoline prices continue to drop
Sentinel Staff WriterAAA Auto Club South reports that the average price of a gallon of gasoline continues to drop in response to falling crude-oil prices. Even demand from 41 million Thanksgiving travelers -- 33 million of whom were traveling by car -- couldn't halt the...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Automotive Equipment
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Falling gas prices harm Conn. tax revenue
A steep drop in gas prices has created an estimated $100 million revenue shortfall in Connecticut's state budget for this fiscal year, which already has a projected deficit. State officials thought the state's petroleum wholesale tax was going to...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Laws, Automotive Equipment, State Budgets, Jodi Rell
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Oil prices jump in volatile week
HOUSTON Oil prices rose sharply yesterday as a large interest rate cut in China and news of a possible Russian output cut appeared to counter another round of dour economic news and larger-than-expected crude stockpiles in the U.S. Trading followed this...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Energy Saving, Commodity Markets, Citigroup Incorporated
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Holiday travelers under watchful eyes
From a starkly utilitarian building lodged between the coal heaps and salt piles of industrial Canton, Rebecca Pindell will have the best seat in town today to view the traffic mess on Maryland's highways on the busiest travel day of the year.
Pindell...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Vehicles, Thanksgiving, Automotive Equipment, Holidays
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Few grumbles for holiday travelers in Md.
The Associated PressThere is little grumbling in evidence as travelers in Maryland are taking to the rails and the skies to their Thanksgiving destinations. Tom and Michelle Robinson of Parkton were at Baltimore's Penn Station with their two young children waiting for their...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Automotive Equipment, Transportation, Holidays, Air Transportation
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Holiday to go
From a starkly utilitarian building lodged between the coal heaps and salt piles of industrial Canton, Rebecca Pindell will have the best seat in town Wednesday to view the traffic mess on Maryland's highways on the busiest travel day of the year....Tags: Trips and Vacations, Vehicles, Thanksgiving, Automotive Equipment, Holidays
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