House votes to keep highway spending level

WASHINGTON — Despite years of warnings that the nation’s roads, bridges and transit systems are falling apart and will bring nightmarish congestion, the House on Thursday passed a six-year transportation bill that maintains the spending status quo.

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Transportation Chief: Five Airlines probed for price-gouging

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A transit system at a crawl

At 4:35 a.m. each weekday, Stan Paul drives out of his Southern California suburb with 10 passengers in a van, headed to his job as an undergraduate counselor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Some 80 miles and 90 minutes later, the vanpoolers finally arrive to start their …

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Time for stronger containers

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Drone on

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Legislation lifting off

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Poll: Americans skeptical of commercial drones

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Playing the influence game

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Phone friendly skies

WASHINGTON - Airline passengers will be able to use their electronic devices gate-to-gate to read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music - but not talk on their cellphones - under much-anticipated guidelines issued Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Drunk walking leads to 1,547 pedestrian deaths

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The skies are becoming not so friendly

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Good and bad above us

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Safety Council: Traffic deaths surged in 2012

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Report: FAA lags on fulfilling airline safety law

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Getting the gremlins out

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Report: More fees, less choice for air travelers

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Somebody's watching me

WASHINGTON - Thousands of drones patrolling U.S. skies?

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Long train running

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New FAA rules to help end flying while sleepy

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NTSB: Put down the cellphone

WASHINGTON - Texting, emailing or chatting on a cellphone while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed, federal safety investigators declared Tuesday, urging all states to impose total bans except for emergencies.

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Study: More drivers texting

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FAA: Changes coming to prevent tarmac delays

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States struggle for financing to meet road needs

LAS VEGAS - The Hoover Dam, one of the world's great engineering feats, is marred by roads with traffic so jammed along the Nevada-Arizona border that it tells a different story about the political will to maintain 21st century infrastructure.

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Automation in the air dulls pilot skills

WASHINGTON - Pilots' "automation addiction" has eroded their flying skills to the point that they sometimes don't know how to recover from stalls and other mid-flight problems, say pilots and safety officials. The weakened skills have contributed to hundreds of deaths in airline crashes in the last five years.

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Government wants to know all the fees airlines charge

WASHINGTON - Five dollars for a pillow, $10 to jump ahead in the boarding line - all those annoying airline fees can add up.

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Safe skies?

PHOENIX - Federal aviation officials readied an order Monday for emergency inspections on 80 U.S.-registered Boeing 737 jetliners like the one on which a piece of fuselage tore open more than 30,000 feet above Arizona last week.

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Less fatigue in the cockpit?

WASHINGTON - Work hours would be shortened for pilots who fly at night while some pilots who fly during the day could spend more time in the cockpit under a government proposal to help prevent dangerous fatigue.

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France celebrates Bastille Day

WASHINGTON - Finding the best deal on a flight has become a lot more difficult, thanks to hefty baggage and service fees that consumers often don't know about until they show up at the airline counter, congressional investigators say.

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DOT: Airlines should pay bumped passengers more

WASHINGTON - Airline passengers would receive as much as $1,300 for being bumped from a flight and would have 24 hours to cancel reservations without penalty, among other consumer protections proposed Wednesday by the Obama administration.

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