Obama Bans Federal Employees From Texting While Driving
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday it will seek to ban text messaging by interstate bus drivers and truckers and push states to...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday it will seek to ban text messaging by interstate bus drivers and truckers and push states to...
Peter Mehlman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Comedy
First, drinking. Then talking on the phone. Then text messaging. You'd think the government would cut back on its probes into highway accident-causing activities, but ... no dice.
AP | Michael Gormley | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- It's now illegal to text, tweet or surf while driving in New York. Gov. David Paterson announced Thursday that he signed the a...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 09.06.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- College student Juan Ibarra hopes a new Illinois law banning text messaging while driving will help him kick the dangerous habit. "I ...
New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
The ambulance arrived at the scene minutes after the cabs collided, one yellow taxi T-boned into another in a busy Manhattan intersection. Shattered g...
Mort Gerberg | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
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AP | Posted 03.13.2009 | Chicago
State Sen. Dan Rutherford is trying to put the brakes on texting while driving in Illinois. The Pontiac Republican says violators would pay $75 under...
Rick Smith | Posted 02.16.2009 | Business
The 21st Century has ushered in new social media applications. But with access to these tools granted across the entire Bell curve of intelligences, it seems as if we have handed out guns to chimpanzees!
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago
Motorists who send text messages or surf the Internet while driving would face stiff fines -- ranging from $75 to $200 -- under a crackdown advanced b...
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago
A City Council committee today unanimously passed a proposed ban on sending text messages while driving in Chicago. The measure is likely to come up ...
Ari Bendersky | Posted 10.13.2008 | Chicago
Ed Burke's proposed law sounds like a great idea. But just like the hands-free law that's supposedly in effect in Chicago, this new law will, sadly, most likely get ignored as well.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living