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More than 1 in 5 travelers knowingly or unknowingly carried prohibited items onto aircraft, survey finds

A survey of airline passengers found that more than 20 percent had knowingly or unknowingly smuggled prohibited items past Transportation Security Administration checkpoints onto the aircraf...

DATE: Aug 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

From cowboys to robots: truckers wary of autonomous rigs

Danny Spell thinks that the idea that a robot will be driving his 18-wheeler one of these days is hogwash. “I been listening to a lot of crap on the truckers’ channel,” Spell, 49,...

DATE: May 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Not the Mile High Club: 1 in 10 travelers has sex in an airport, survey finds

Romance is in the air – and sometimes in the airport, according to an online flight-shopping service. About 1 in 10 American air travelers reports having had sex of some kind at a...

DATE: May 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

TSA sending help to Chicago for O’Hare’s security

DATE: May 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Millennials have low opinion of themselves, compared to boomers

Millennials have a relatively low opinion of their generation. They don’t even like the label “millennials” to describe the group they’ve been lumped into, especially when compared with baby...

DATE: Sep 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fear of Alzheimer’s spurs some to change lives

When Jamie Tyrone found out that she carries a gene that gives her a 91 percent chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease beginning around age 65, she sank into a depression so deep that at t...

DATE: Jul 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health

America is growing older, more diverse

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Census Bureau report shows the baby boom generation fading further into the gray and giving way to millennials in a country whose younger generations are also becoming mo...

DATE: Jun 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World