A semi tractor trailer in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, going the wrong way on the interstate into oncoming traffic for 15 kilometers nearly 10 miles, jumped an overpass guardrail at high speed Monday, crashing onto the train tracks below and exploding into a giant fireball. The driver was killed.

A passenger in a car on the [...]

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The new Yankee Stadium Metro-North stop to go online in 2009 is posing some logistical challenges to scheduling, reports LoHud.com’s ‘Going Places’:
Left: Say hello to your new seatmates on the way home from work. They appreciate you making the extra slow loop-stop so they can share your hour-long ride home.
“The station, which will become [...]

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CrotonBlog.com reports on the spillage of over 17,000 gallons of diesel fuel near an MTA storage tank at Croton-On-Hudson Metro-North Station, which was discovered on March 29th.
Curiously I could not find any other news articles on this online.
CrotonBlog reports that cleanup contractors are removing the fuel-soaked soil admist already-underway major expansion projects, making for quite [...]

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TVSquad.com has a list of 15 great New York City TV Shows.
I have to disagree with their choice of Spin City however (and most NYC sitcoms on the list actually) - Spin City was an outstanding sitcom, but it could have been set in a fictional city and the sexy office humor would been just [...]

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