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MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio — Cleveland Browns defensive lineman Shaun Rogers has had his trouble with the law, but this time he is getting kudos from a local police chief. (more)

For the first time, Amtrak is courting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered travelers with a targeted $250,000 multimedia advertising blitz this summer. (more)

New Yorkers will have more flight choices and fewer delays as the longest runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport reopens this week after a four- month closure for a $348 million repaving and updating. (more)

New York City subway cars are getting dirtier—and the transit-advocacy group that did the study fears things could get worse. (more)

One can hardly turn on a financial news program lately without hearing an analyst speak bullishly about America’s railroads. But, lost in this clatter is the fact that the railroads’ big profits are owed largely to the unrestrained monopoly pricing power they exert over many of their customers. (more)

WASHINGTON – A Government Accountability Office study quietly released Thursday has bolstered a Republican senator’s efforts to force Amtrak’s rail service to accommodate gun toting riders or face shutdown, Raw Story has found. (more)

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey this week began to send letters to more than 3,000 occupants of a wide swath of the West Side that surrounds the path of one of the biggest public-works projects in the nation: an $8.7 billion commuter train tunnel under the Hudson River. The letters lay out the plan and schedule for construction of the tunnel — twin tunnels, actually — which will end at a new terminal deep under 34th Street at the foot of the Macy’s flagship store. (more)

BOSTON, MA. – Nine cities and towns have forced the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to pay property taxes on closed churches, schools, convents, and parish halls, contending that the buildings no longer qualify as tax-exempt because the archdiocese is not using them. (more)

A Transportation Security Administration program to screen passengers at airports based on their behavior missed at least 16 people later linked to terror plots, according to a government report released last week. (more)

Congress is ramping up its oversight of Metro as Washington D.C. mass transit riders brace for a possible fare hike and transit officials embark to make long overdue safety changes while fighting a multi-million dollar budget shortfall. (more)

A Transportation Security Administration agent has been arrested for allegedly stealing $400 dollars from a wheelchair bound passenger as she passed through a security checkpoint at Newark Airport. (more)

It’s been almost nine years since the tragic Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Although our country has not endured another attack since then, I always tell folks back in East Alabama that it’s not a matter of whether we’ll be attacked again, but when. (more)

Early morning on March 29, 2010, two female suicide bombers detonated the explosive devices they were carrying on subway trains in Moscow. Initial reports indicate that 37 individuals were killed and that 73 were injured. These attacks, likely the work of Chechen separatists, produced panic amongst passengers, disrupted service on Moscow’s massive subway system and brought a flood of police and special forces personnel out into the streets of the city. (more)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Final rules for new fuel economy standards were unveiled by the government Thursday, placing the national average for all vehicles at more than 34 miles per gallon, well above current levels. (more)

Transportation Security Administration nominee Maj. Gen. Robert Harding told senators last week that he hoped to quickly transform aviation security by having screeners interact more with airline passengers and moving “closer to an Israeli model.” (more)

They were supposed to be taking a direct flight from LAX to JFK — but wound up on a 16-hour nightmare tour by air and bus of New York state. (more)

Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) shows complaints have been lodged with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) over the use of whole body scanners at U.S. airports. (more)

A violent fight burst out Tuesday afternoon on an AC Transit bus, in downtown Oakland, California. Two men got in an altercation, which another bus passenger caught on tape- leading to it becoming the latest YouTube sensation. According to an AC Transit spokesperson, both men were taken to a local hospital for treatment. (more)

The Transportation Security Administration is attempting to find the source of a leak of a sensitive security directive that followed a failed airline bombing attempt on Christmas Day. Two travel bloggers have revealed that they have been subpoenaed to provide information that may lead to the source of the leak. (more)

There are many valuable lessons to be learned from the failed Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner; throwing more money at airline security is not one of them. (more)