Today’s Headlines
Taxi Ride from Hell Kills Passenger, Injures Others Four Teens Hospitalized After Staten Island Crosswalk Crash Long Island Woman Hit by SUV Dies Mercedes Crash Kills Three Tire-Slash Spree in Williamsburg Cars is Number One at the Box Office at $62.8 million An Inconvenient Truth Earns a “Whopping” $12,000 Per-Screen Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts … Continued
10:17 AM EDT on June 12, 2006

- Taxi Ride from Hell Kills Passenger, Injures Others
- Four Teens Hospitalized After Staten Island Crosswalk Crash
- Long Island Woman Hit by SUV Dies
- Mercedes Crash Kills Three
- Tire-Slash Spree in Williamsburg
- Cars is Number One at the Box Office at $62.8 million
- An Inconvenient Truth Earns a “Whopping” $12,000 Per-Screen
- Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow
- Grand Army Plaza Circle Game
- FAA Probe Puts Wind Farms on Hold
- Gasoline Prices Leveling Off at $2.93/gallon
- United Automobile Workers Facing Tough Choices
- Concern Grows Over Increase in Diabetes Around World
- Speaker Quinn Backs Mayor’s Recycling Plant Plan
- From Across the World, Coins Converge in the City’s Meters
- Fundraiser Concerts Planned to Help Fill McCarren Pool in Greenpoint
- City Probes Brooklyn Neighborhood Arsons
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.
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