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In bid to reduce road deaths, North Carolina police will step up seatbelt law
The so-called "Click It or Ticket" program will also be promoted at minor league baseball parks in Durham, Zebulon, Greensboro, Hickory and Charlotte. Last year, 425 of the 1327 traffic fatalities in North Carolina were people who weren't buckled up.
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:50P
Portion of I-85 could open as early as Wednesday; accident victims identified
Law enforcement officers said the double fatality, coupled with the detour for interstate traffic and rerouting for local residents, made the incident one of the worst in years. The tractor-trailer was en route to the Northeast with deliveries of
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:49P
In protest of gas prices, women ride horses to work
Once a month, the women say they'll be trading in their car keys for a one horse power ride to work - their horses Maya and Black Hawk. "Since I'm a chiropractor, we do alternative care of medicine, so we thought why not do an alternative way to get to
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:48P
Volcano interfering with air travel, again
A dense cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano blew toward Scotland on Monday, forcing airlines to cancel flights, President Obama to cut short his visit to Ireland and carriers across Europe to fear a repeat of the huge disruptions that stranded
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:48P
4 Detained, One Dead in Bombing Case
In Volgograd, the bombers left bags with explosives near a police academy and a traffic police building. Passers-by alerted the police, giving the authorities time to evacuate the neighborhood to prevent casualties. Volgograd Governor Anatoly Brovko
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:48P
3 Cleared of Poaching Altai Sheep
The crash killed seven of the 11 people on board. Photos from the crash site leaked by ecologists showed slain argali — of which some 200 remain in Russia — strewn among the rubble with hunting guns. The crash stirred public outrage,
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:48P
No Place Left for Medvedev
During the interval between those two statements, the Justice Ministry confirmed the registration of the Congress of Russian Communities, a nationalist public association without party affiliation, and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov said he would lead
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:48P
Liberals Hope OSCE Can Help Duma Bid
Four liberal opposition politicians asked the Justice Ministry on Monday to register a new political party that would seek to revert the presidential term to four years, free jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and, perhaps unsurprisingly,
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:48P
PennDOT, Police Team Up to Get Drivers to Buckle Up
Lou Belmont, PennDOT traffic engineer, explained that 92 law enforcement agencies in the five-county Philadelphia region received Click It or Ticket grants from PennDOT to create awareness for seatbelt safety. He said 82 percent of Pennsylvania drivers
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:47P
Politicos call the shots in police transfers
Barring some police stations in South Zone, lucrative wings are law and order, task force, traffic and certain positions in the detective department (DD). Postings in SB and CSW are considered `loopline' posts. Even in top priority law and order,
Updated: 05/23/2011 06:47P
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