Today’s Headlines
Stringer Will Seek Study of Road Use Fees (NY Sun) At Least 10,000 DWI Offenders Still Driving in NJ Because of Test (Newsday) Lawsuit Claims NYPD Ignored Cop Hit-Run Info (Daily News) Would Verrazano Toll Ease Truck Congestion? (Brooklyn Paper) NYPD Sergeant Nabbed for DWI After Crash (Newsday) Sustainable Skyscraper Goes Up on 42nd St. … Continued
9:37 AM EST on February 12, 2007
- Stringer Will Seek Study of Road Use Fees (NY Sun)
- At Least 10,000 DWI Offenders Still Driving in NJ Because of Test (Newsday)
- Lawsuit Claims NYPD Ignored Cop Hit-Run Info (Daily News)
- Would Verrazano Toll Ease Truck Congestion? (Brooklyn Paper)
- NYPD Sergeant Nabbed for DWI After Crash (Newsday)
- Sustainable Skyscraper Goes Up on 42nd St. (AMNY)
- Flying to Work in LA, and Saving Gas Money? (LA Times)
- A Strong Economy Both Good and Bad for Global Warming (Guardian)
- Stricter Road Rules May Empty Ireland’s Pubs (NYT)
- Benzene Finally to Be Scrubbed from Gasoline (Wired)
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