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This May 9, 2013 photo shows evening rush hour commuters inspecting the train information board inside Penn Station in New York. The busiest passenger train station in the United States, gateway to the biggest city in the nation, is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth built in what is essentially the basement of Madison Square Garden. Two decades after ambitious plans were unveiled to improve Penn Station while expanding it into the massive Beaux Arts post office building across the street, there are few visible signs of change. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Plans languish for overhaul of NYC's Penn Station

The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena. Pennsylvania Station, a gateway to the nation's biggest city, was designed to accommodate about 200,000 riders a day. Now, it is packed with more than 600,000. At rush hours, ...

  • Updated: 2:10 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
Raw: 6 Die in Russian Ship Fire

Raw: 6 Die in Russian Ship Fire

Six Russian crew members have died in a fire aboard their freighter which was docked at a northern Japanese port. The Taigan caught fire just after 1 a.m. on Thursday. It took about 12 hours for firefighters to put out the blaze. (May 16)

  • 1:40 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

AAA: Texas retail gasoline prices up 3 cents

Retail gasoline prices in Texas have risen 3 cents this week to reach an average $3.41 per gallon. AAA Texas on Thursday also reported the national average rose by a nickel to hit $3.60 per gallon. Amarillo has the most expensive gasoline statewide this week, jumping 20 cents to reach ...

  • Updated: 12:18 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

EUROPE CONSIDERS EMISSION FINES FOR CHINESE AND INDIAN AIRLINES

c.2013 New York Times News Service BRUSSELS — The European Commission said Thursday that Air China and Air India were among 10 Chinese and Indian airlines facing the prospect of fines and exclusion from airports in the European Union for refusing to comply with rules aimed at regulating greenhouse emissions. ...

  • Updated: 1:43 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Oil falls below $94 a barrel amid high supplies

The price of oil slipped below $94 a barrel Thursday as traders digested discouraging economic data from the United States and Europe and U.S. oil supplies remained high. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for June delivery was down 37 cents to $93.93 a barrel in electronic trading on ...

  • Updated: 8:50 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Jordan jet crashes near Syrian border, 2 killed

Jordan's military says a trainer jet has crashed near the Syrian border, killing its two Jordanian pilots. A spokesman says the British-made aerobatic T-67 Firefly trainer was on a routine flight early Thursday west of King Hussein Air College, a Royal Jordanian Air Force base in the border town of ...

  • Updated: 8:10 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
Nepalese rescuers and other people stand near the wreckage of a Nepal Airlines plane that crashed on the banks of Kaligandaki river at Jomsom, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, May 16, 2013. The plane crashed while trying to land at Jomsom airport in northern Nepal early Thursday, injuring all 21 people on board. No one was killed. (AP Photo/Ananda Subedi)

Nepal plane crash injures 21, including 8 Japanese

A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, and all 21 people on board, including eight Japanese tourists, survived with injuries, police said. Four of the injured were in critical condition, police officer Bhim Bahadur Chand said. The state-owned Nepal Airlines plane ...

  • Updated: 4:45 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT

Plaintiffs in Pilot lawsuit hire ex-FBI head Freeh KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former FBI Director Louis Freeh's firm has been hired by trucking companies suing Pilot Flying J over allegations that the nation's largest diesel fuel retailer bilked customers out of rebates. Plaintiffs' attorney Mark Tate told WBIR-TV (http://on.wbir.com/YK8SKvhttp://on.wbir.com/YK8SKv ) ...

  • Updated: 7:59 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
A Rakhine Buddhist woman and her child, whose family took temporarily shelter in a monastery because of the arrival of the Cyclone Mahasen, sits in the floor with their belongings at a Buddhist monastery in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar , Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The U.N. said the cyclone, expected later this week, could swamp makeshift housing camps sheltering tens of thousands of Rohingya. Myanmar state television reported Monday that 5,158 people were relocated from low-lying camps in Rakhine state to safer shelters. But far more people are considered vulnerable. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

As rain from cyclone falls, Myanmar minority stay

A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal. Tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya people live in the plastic-roofed tents ...

  • Updated: 12:37 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Infant in stroller falls onto Philly train tracks

A 14-month-old girl who fell onto elevated train tracks when her stroller rolled off the platform was rescued Wednesday by her mother and other passengers, officials said. "What it looks like to us is that the mother became distracted by something, didn't apply the brake on the stroller and the ...

  • Updated: 9:44 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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