The comeback caf é
Tulsa World
construction of the Turner Turnpike between Tulsa and Oklahoma City slowed business down considerably, and some believed the Rock would never get back to its heyday. That's before they met Dawn Welch. Welch was 24 years old when she bought ...
Tewksbury school leader: Goal is to keep 2010 school budget flat
Recorder Community Newspapers
The master schedules at Tewksbury Elementary School and Old Turnpike School were changed to "address the allotment of instructional time to each subject area." Petrick said that the revisions to the schedule "increased the availability of e...
Regional Roundup
Dallas Morning News
The blaze began about 5:45 p.m. Monday at the Gramercy on the Park Apartments, which are under construction near the Dallas North Tollway and Bush Turnpike. At the fire's peak, 140 firefighters responded. Seven firefighters were , injured, ...
Suspects in car chase identified
WPTV
Butler made it to the Florida Turnpike and traveled through Broward County and into Palm Beach County. Eventually he sideswiped a car then hit a guardrail, struck a pickup truck, and once again bounced into a guardrail before swerving into ...
Michael Smerconish: Wherever we look, we're slaves to technology
Philadelphia Daily News
A few weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission sent out a mailer announcing that something called E-Z-Pass Plus would be available to E-ZPass customers (like me) beginning on Nov. 1. As it explained: "E-ZPass Plus allows E-ZPass cust...
Pittsburgh Holiday Travel Going Well So Far
Pittsburgh Channel
PITTSBURGH -- From the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Pittsburgh International Airport, holiday travelers are already packed up and on the move. WTAE Channel 4's Ari Hait reported that 2.1 million drivers from all over -- Illinois, Michigan, Utah...
Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone
CNN
The technology is similar to the scanners and passes that allow commuters to pay for drives on a turnpike without stopping at a toll booth. When a phone is enabled with near-field communication technology, shoppers can load bank and credit ...
Henrico business licenses for Nov. 30
Richmond Times-Dispatch
VA Christmas Show (sales promotion/flea); licensee Patricia Wagstaff, 3000 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Henrico 23223. Mya P. Waller (personal services); licensee same, 444 Evanrude Lane, Sandston 23150. Falon Ward (personal services); licensee...
What are the odds? A Thanksgiving guide
York Daily Record
Leaving from Continental Square, if you take the turnpike to I-70 heading west, you'd have to go just past Chillicothe, Mo., a 16-hour drive, not counting traffic. But if we're counting the return trip, you can stop in Spiceland, Ind.
End of the Road for Tammy the Turnpike Turkey
NBC New York
She's called Exit 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike her home since this past summer. But Wednesday morning, Tammy the Turnpike Turkey met her match with NJ Fish and Wildlife Agents. "Routine operation" is how Agent Tony McBride described the o...
All-electronic tolls coming to Fla.'s Turnpike
WSVN-TV
MIAMI (AP) -- Drivers on a 47-mile stretch of Florida's Turnpike won't have to stop or slow down to pay tolls starting in 2011. Traditional tollbooths between the Miami-Dade County line and Florida City will be removed starting this year an...
Millions of Americans Hit the Roads and Rails for Thanksgiving Amid ...
FOX News
Emily Jacobs, 26, said they decided Amtrak was the best option after considering "traffic on the roads, getting out of the city, and then the New Jersey Turnpike ... might as well bypass all that." The cost of flying also was a deterent, Em...
Rage and praise over one man’s restaurant blog
East Hampton Star
... Ambrose, a proprietor, chef, and former bartender with 17 years as a restaurant owner under his belt, runs Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor, down the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike from where Mr. Buschel’s restaurant is to be.
N.J.-to-N.Y. rail project could gain from national gasoline-tax boost
Bridgeton News
... transit capacity into New York City, has received funding commitments of $3 billion from the Port Authority; $1.5 billion from the state; and $1.25 billion from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The rest of the money — about $3 billion...