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All aboard for West Point's transportation museum
It's not so often a grown man gets to report to work and play with trains. For Terry Craig, though, it's a weekly joy. As curator of the Sam Wilhite Transportation Museum on West Point's Depot Drive, he is not only conductor of the largest working stationary train of its ...
Police seek missing Oregon tourist on Oahu
Honolulu police are searching for a tourist from Oregon who has been missing on Oahu since Thursday. Police said Saturday that Ivanice "Ivy" Harris was last seen Thursday talking to a man outside a bar in Waikiki and has not been seen since. Harris traveled to Hawaii from Portland with ...
DC transportation exhibit offers history lesson
The schoolchildren piled into the rail car in downtown Washington and looked up and down as the lights flickered and the floor rumbled. "We're here!" one of the young passengers shouted, all of them heading for the door like seasoned commuters. The rail car never actually moved, nor did the ...
Parking fees fight at Calif. state beaches heat up
Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic. That sandy line that long defined the state's ...
Saguaro National Park busy repairing rutted trails
There are trenches up to 2 feet deep that cut across some trails in the eastern district of Saguaro National Park, deep ruts blamed on horses' hooves, storm runoff and years of natural erosion. Park employees are working to repair and reroute the most severely rutted trails and some trail ...
Sheaffer Pen centennial gala in Fort Madison
The centennial celebration of the Sheaffer Pen Co. made its way to where the famed writing implement got its start — in Fort Madison, Iowa. The celebration, which wrapped up Saturday, included a 100-year birthday cake, forum panels led by current and former Sheaffer employees, a visit from Sheaffer family ...
Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the ...
'All aboard' for West Point transportation museum
It's not so often a grown man gets to report to work and play with trains. For Terry Craig, though, it's a weekly joy. As curator of the Sam Wilhite Transportation Museum on West Point's Depot Drive, he is not only conductor of the largest working stationary train of its ...
Illinois cracks down on social media 'flash mobs'
Seeking to keep pace with changing technology, Illinois toughened penalties Saturday for those who use social media and text messaging to organize violent "flash mobs" like those that have occurred on Chicago's Michigan Avenue and in other tourist areas. Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation doubling the maximum prison term for ...
Udall seeks feedback on proposed national monument
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the public's help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central Colorado — an area renowned for its whitewater rafting. The Democrat, who held ...
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