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Plane crash in Lafayette County leaves pilot dead

Plane crash in Lafayette County leaves pilot dead

An investigation is now underway after a deadly plane crash in Lafayette County. BRADLEY, Ark. — An investigation is now underway following a deadly plane crash in Lafayette County. According to reports, at about 9:30 p.m. on August 18, the...

Train tracks reopen after derailment in Dodge County

Train tracks reopen after derailment in Dodge County

TOWN OF LOWELL, Wis. — Railway tracks have reopened after crews completed initial cleanup of a Canadian Pacific train derailment in Dodge County last Friday. The derailment happened between the village of Reeseville and the town of Lowell,...

Aviation Tech Failures Expose Aging Systems and Cyber Risks

Aviation Tech Failures Expose Aging Systems and Cyber Risks

In the high-stakes world of aviation, where precision and reliability are paramount, a spate of technology glitches has repeatedly grounded flights and frustrated passengers. Just this month, United Airlines faced a major disruption when a...

Highway 20 crash claims life of 19-year-old after swerving to avoid collision

Highway 20 crash claims life of 19-year-old after swerving to avoid collision

LINN COUNTY, Ore. — On Sunday morning, August 17, Oregon State Police responded to a single vehicle crash on Highway 20, near milepost 4, in Linn County. Police say a westbound Toyota 4Runner driven by Ryker Thomas Pittam, 19, of Albany, swerved...

Plane Crashes in Rural Lafayette County

LAFAYETTE COUNTY ARKANSAS – Local authorities confirmed that there was a single engine private plane crash in a wooded area near Bradley, Arkansas…. It has been reported that the crash happened around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 but it took...

Car Traffic Will Return To Stretch Of Lincoln Avenue This Week

Car Traffic Will Return To Stretch Of Lincoln Avenue This Week

LINCOLN SQUARE — A stretch of Lincoln Avenue that’s been closed off to cars for months will reopen this week, officials said. Lincoln Avenue between Leland and Eastwood avenues was closed to traffic in June as part of construction in Lincoln...

Train travel in Wales down to just £1 with new promotion

Train travel in Wales down to just £1 with new promotion

Customers using Transport for Wales can now benefit from a limited-time offer to access travel for just £1 using Pay As You Go. From today (19 August) until the 28th August, those using Pay As You Go stations across South Wales will be able to...

Highway 16 sensor pad work continues

Highway 16 sensor pad work continues

Work continues this month to install a sensor pad in a section of Hwy16 in Thornhill that will transmit commercial vehicle information to the newly-opened provincial vehicle inspection station located nearby. The pad in the westbound lane...

Car Crashes Through Restaurant Window While Food Influencers Film Review

Car Crashes Through Restaurant Window While Food Influencers Film Review

An SUV crashed into a restaurant and injured two food influencers while they were filming a review on Saturday. On Aug. 18, NinaUnrated and Patrick Blackwood posted a video showing the stunning moment at Cuvee’s Culinary Creations in Houston,...

Shippers File Fresh Federal Maritime Commission Complaints

Shippers File Fresh Federal Maritime Commission Complaints

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loastar) – More shippers have lodged complaints with the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), with DB Schenker USA and Wallenius Wilhelmsen (WW) the latest operators ‘in the dock’. The filings continue a busy summer for...

Two freshmen hit by car on US Route 1, one hospitalized

Two students were hit by a car on South Dixie Highway, a segment of U.S. Route 1, on Saturday, Aug. 16 around 6:30 p.m. The students are freshmen living in Mahoney Residential College. “One student was struck by a car making a left turn and was...

U.S. Cuts Antarctica’s Only Research Icebreaker Ship under Trump Budget Squeeze

U.S. Cuts Antarctica’s Only Research Icebreaker Ship under Trump Budget Squeeze

Many ships have tried to reach the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier—a 130-kilometer-wide conveyor belt of ice that slides off West Antarctica’s coast and splinters into the sea. Thwaites is rapidly destabilizing, and precise mapping of the...

Envoy Air Marks National Aviation Day with Simulator Event

Envoy Air Marks National Aviation Day with Simulator Event

Aviation enthusiasts experienced full-motion training sims and career guidance at Avenger Flight Group’s Irving facility. [ News ]August 19, 2025 1:48 pm ET By Ryan Ewing American Airlines regional subsidiary Envoy Air marked National Aviation Day...

Video shows ship filled with coal explode near Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse site

Video shows ship filled with coal explode near Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse site

A camera captured the moment an explosion erupted inside the W. Sapphire, a Liberian-flagged ship filled with coal, on Monday in the Patapsco River near Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site. The emergency unfolded around 6:30 p.m. in...

Grain deliveries by Canada's two major railways decline slightly as new crop year begins: Ag Transport Coalition

Grain deliveries by Canada's two major railways decline slightly as new crop year begins: Ag Transport Coalition

CN and CPKC Rail supplied 93% of hopper cars in week 1 of the 2025-26 grain year, a small dip from the prior week’s 98%. According to the Ag Transport Coalition, the 2025-26 grain year has begun with continued strong performance from both CN and...

Greece’s Salamis Shipyards Deliver Blocks for France’s Third FDI

Greece’s Salamis Shipyards Deliver Blocks for France’s Third FDI

On August 18, 2025, Salamis Shipyards delivered a new series of pre-outfitted sections for a third FDI frigate, this time for the French Navy’s second vessel, Amiral Castex. Salamis Shipyards Press Release (translation from Greek) On August 18,...

US Navy takes next steps for new LSM medium landing ship class

US Navy takes next steps for new LSM medium landing ship class

The US Navy has revealed the latest steps in its effort to fast-track the build of a new fleet of Medium Landing Ships (LSM) vessels based on off-the-shelf blueprints. In the first move, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has completed the...

Low-clearance train bridge requires creativity in Euclid Avenue reconstruction project plan

Low-clearance train bridge requires creativity in Euclid Avenue reconstruction project plan

Aug. 19, 2025: As part of the Euclid Avenue-Highways 14/83 reconstruction project in Pierre, work has started by the train viaduct bridge, just north of the federal building. Morris, Inc., Operations Manager TJ Gallagher says some of the work will...

IRFC Supports the Development of India's First Multi-Modal Transport Hub at Surat

IRFC Supports the Development of India's First Multi-Modal Transport Hub at Surat

Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) has sanctioned and executed agreements for a fresh term loan facility of ₹199.70 crore with Surat Integrated Transportation Development Corporation Limited (SITCO) to support the development of the Surat...

Bus driver, passenger killed in highway crash Freeport

Bus driver, passenger killed in highway crash Freeport

News Laurel V Williams 17 Minutes Ago Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Eli Zakour, left, looks on as fire officials work at the scene of the accident following the collision of a PTSC bus with a flatbed truck along the southbound lane of...

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