Date: 11/18/2008 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana has suspended its search for a U.S.-registered plane with three people aboard that disappeared over dense Amazonian jungle two weeks ago. Transportation Minister Robeson Benn says government teams have unsuccessfully scoured mountainous forests…
Date: 11/14/2008 By BEN McCONVILLEAssociated Press Writer EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) _ A court refused Friday to release from prison a cancer-stricken Libyan man convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. The…
Date: 11/13/2008 BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) _ A judge says an expert witness may testify about toxicology test results on a truck driver involved in a fatal May 2007 accident in central Pennsylvania. Peter Carrara’s truck struck a car that changed…
Date: 11/13/2008 By ALEXANDRA OLSONAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ U.S. investigators have found no evidence of foul play in a mysterious plane crash that killed Mexico’s second-most powerful official, the American ambassador said Wednesday. U.S. National Transportation and…
Date: 11/11/2008 WEVER, Iowa (AP) — A coal train has derailed in southeast Iowa, blocking an intersection of a road and knocking out power to nearby homes. The Lee County sheriff’s office says the BNSF train derailed early Tuesday afternoon…
Date: 11/10/2008 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ A North Carolina teenager who studied teen highway deaths as a senior high school project is dead after a crash. Eighteen-year-old Shannon Nicole Adkins graduated last spring after turning in a report about the…
Date: 11/10/2008 By TIM KLASSAssociated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) _ The Federal Aviation Administration has toughened a requirement that Boeing 737 pilots be reminded not to ignore a cabin pressure warning horn, ordering preflight briefings as well as changes in…
Date: 11/9/2008 By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press Writer SHANNON, Ireland (AP) _ The U.S. said Sunday it has begun transferring more than $500 million in Libyan compensation money to the families of American victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing…
Date: 11/7/2008 By E. EDUARDO CASTILLOAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Mexican experts say they have ruled out a bomb or engine failure as the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior secretary. The probe into the…
Date: 11/7/2008 By ALEXANDRA OLSONAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Two flight recorders from a plane crash that killed Mexico’s No. 2 government official were sent to the U.S. for examination, officials said Thursday, amid widespread speculation — but…