A couple of studies in America and in Europe provide similar statistical evidence that all BMW drivers are total and complete complete jerks.
The research alos found that drivers of BMWs were also more likely to cheat at four-way-stop intersections, according to the findings.
In one study, motorists were asked to identify the make and color of the car from which they have most frequently suffered road-rage incidents and BMW topped the majority of responses.
An $11 billion dollar merger deal has been grounded at the 11th hour by US DOJ claiming it's a bad deal for all consumers.
The merger would have created the world's largest airline, but the Department of Justice, six state attorneys general and the District of Columbia filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today challenging the proposed merger between US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines’ parent corporation, AMR Corp.
Operation Cleaner Streets should be immediately launched right here on City Island.
City Island Images has personally witnessed people who throw trash on the ground,or allow their pets to defaecate on our streets without picking up after them. When challenged, they ignored us, or denied it ever occurred.
Locals, community leaders and clergymen should donate time to sweep the pavement picking up trash around City Island avenue's heavily trafficked areas.
It is time for the civic association to organize such a necessary program one day of every month.
In Australia, every street photographer can relate tales of being harassed and threatened by passers-by, photo subjects etc; people who believe that it is illegal to photograph people without their permission.
Likewise, there is a common believe that the second you pull out an SLR with a long lens, you're either a terrorist or a pervert.
Two of the 20 worst prisons on earth are located right here in New York. One is listed in the top 10 another in top 20.
American entrepreneur Elon Musk is proposing a near-supersonic "Hyperloop" transport concept.
The SpaceX, Tesla and PayPal founder says he envisions using magnets and fans to shoot capsules floating on a cushion of air through a long tube. Claustrophobia anyone ?
If that Hyperloop concept is ever developed, a trip on it between Los Angeles and San Francisco, California could take 30 minutes.
Judging a book by it's cover, or a person by their nationality, or color of their skin is wrong and that is why a US court ruled that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice is unconstitutional.
In the court's 198-page ruling, Judge Shira Sheindlin found the NYPD violates New Yorkers’ Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and also found that these practices were racially discriminatory in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Prepare for the deluge because plenty of rain is on its way and soon expected to arrive to our region.
Forecasters say 3 inches of rain is forecast and we will remain under a flash-flood watch until 6 p.m., with more rain forecast abd some of it likely coming in bursts accompanied by gusty winds.
Hang on to your umbrellas, folks... Its going to be a wet one!
Today's landmark decision by a federal judge that NYPD has violated the constitutional rights of tens of thousands of Black and Latinos by subjecting them to unlawful stops. The judge told NYPD to bring its practices in line with the US Constitution and seeks an independent monitor.
Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s ruling in Floyd v. City of New York found the NYPD liable for violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The jury in the trial of convicted mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger has found him guilty Monday of 31 counts, including 11 murders.
These guilty verdicts in the federal racketeering trial could bring a sentence of up to life in prison for the 83-year-old Bulger. Final sentencing is set for November 13.
The former FBI informant faces a life sentence in prison after decades on the run.
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