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Uber Driver Arrested in Florida City for Violating Ordinance

Police in Key West, Fla., have arrested an Uber driver following a crackdown on unlicensed vehicle-for-hire drivers. Spokeswoman Alyson Crean told the Miami Herald that 51-year-old Martin Maness was arrested July 10 on two misdemeanor counts of violating a city …

Storm Does Heavy Damage at Small North Dakota Airport

The airport in the western North Dakota town of Killdeer is being cleaned up after a storm destroyed a hangar and damaged three airplanes. Storms that moved through the region Monday night ripped apart the hangar and flipped the Cessna …

AIG UK Enhances Airside Liablity Offering

AIG’s Aerospace Unit in the UK has enhanced its airside premises and contractors liability protection with limits of indemnity and up to U.S. $50 million of war and terrorism cover included as standard. “Airports in the UK are seeing increasing …

Report on Chicago Airport Highlights Air-Traffic Control Problems

Federal transportation investigators have released a preliminary report about two near midair collisions at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport that raises questions about air-traffic control at one of the world’s busiest airports. The report released by the National Transportation Safety Board …

Cost of Liability Insurance Leads to Closing of Small Iowa Airport

The grass-strip McBride Airport has closed nearly 50 years after it was carved out of an eastern Iowa farm field. Ivan McBride told The Gazette it’s difficult to close the tiny airport in Marion that his late father created in …

Tornado Repairs at St. Louis Airport May Cost $30M

The cost to repair tornado damage at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport could reach as much as $30 million. Airport officials said they’ve received estimates of $25 million to $30 million to restore Terminal 1 and Concourse C following the April …

St. Louis Cleaning Up After Tornado Hits Airport, Local Communities

Flights began departing the St. Louis, Mo., airport on April 24 for the first time since a tornado struck two days earlier. Departures began Sunday morning at Lambert Airport, even as cleanup continued. The C concourse remained closed, but airport …

RMS Analyzes Terrorist Attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport

Risk Management Solutions has analyzed the circumstances pertaining to the bombing at Domodedovo airport in Moscow on Monday, which killed 35 people and wounded 180. RMS said the “attack was perpetrated by a lone suicide bomber, who detonated 15 lbs …

35 Dead, over 150 Injured by Suicide Bomber Attack on Moscow Airport

A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport on Monday, state TV said, in an attack on the capital that bore the hallmarks of militants fighting for an Islamist state in the North Caucasus region. President …