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Tampa City Council backs away from airport stop for high speed railThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 6:01PMJanet Zink, Times Staff Writer Thursday, July 29, 2010 TAMPA — After hearing from transportation officials Thursday, the City Council backed off an effort to get money for a high speed rail stop at Tampa International Airport. Council member Mary Mulhern has been pushing for the stop, along with a light rail station, saying it's critical to the future of the airport. But airport leaders and ...

Extra flights scheduled as part of training at Hill Air Force BaseThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 5:21PMHILL AIR FORCE BASE — During a 22-day period starting Friday, Hill Air Force Base will send up extra flights as part of...

Would you pay to carry a bag on a plane?Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 5:07PMOn Sunday, the budget Spirit Airlines will begin charging for your bag, even if you carry it on. Click here to read the FareCompare.com story on Spirit Airlines and its carry-on bag fees Apparently, Spirit executives say that luggage is an optional...

Hendrick, Gibbs honored for Haiti relief effortsThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:04PMIn the aftermath of the catastrophic, 7.0 earthquake in January which destroyed the capital of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, two renowned NASCAR teams shuttled relief workers and supplies into Haiti and transported evacuees, rotating workers and quake victims to the United States.

Southwest scaling back flights to McCarranThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 8:38AMJust as our local economy tries to get off the ground, Las Vegas is about to lose more flights at McCarran Airport. Wednesday, Southwest Airlines announced it is scaling back and, in some cases, completely eliminating multiple routes.

Area golf notesThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:31AMHortonvilles Alex Thomsen beat Joseph DuChateau of Fond du Lac in a playoff to capture the Wisconsin PGA Junior Tour stop at Mascoutin Country Club in Berlin.

Xtraordinary Adventures Announces New Corporate Incentive….A Suborbital Space Thrill Ride on XCOR’s LYNX.Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:00AMXtraordinary Adventures, in conjunction with RocketShip Tours, is taking reservations on The Lynx, XCOR Aerospace's newest fully reusable rocket powered suborbital vehicle, to reward Corporate Executives worthy of the prize.

Coast Guard: 'very little' chance of oil on local shoresWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:02PMThere is "very, very little" chance of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster hitting the west

Jack Roush Plane Crash: Famous Sports Figures and Plane CrashesWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:07AMIn sports there's a saying that goes "it's better to be lucky than good." Well no one exemplifies that better than NASCAR team owner Jack Roush, who recently survived his second plane crash in less than a decade. Roush a co-owner of Roush Racing (with Red Sox principle owner John Henry) seems to have two passions in life: his race cars and flying planes. Yesterday in Wisconsin, Roush cracked his ...