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US Orders Sweeping Changes to Airline Fees, Tarmac Rules

Apr 20th 2011 – 4:45AM
David McNew, Getty Images

David McNew, Getty Images

DALLAS -- Federal officials are expanding a tarmac-delay rule to prohibit airlines from holding passengers on stranded international flights for longer than four hours. The change stems from a late-December debacle in which several planes loaded with international travelers were stuck for up to 10 hours on snowy New York...

Dangerous Thunderstorms Roll Into the East and South Today

By Paul YeagerApr 11th 2011 – 11:20AM
Sioux City Journal / AP

Sioux City Journal / AP

Dangerous thunderstorms will spread into large portions of the East and South today and tonight, with the threat of damaging wind, large hail and isolated tornadoes extending from western New England to the Gulf Coast. The new storms are associated with the same storm system that produced tornadoes in the Plains and...

Record-Breaking Storm System Roars Across US

By Paul YeagerApr 5th 2011 – 3:40PM
AP

AP

The powerful storm system that swept through the Plains on Sunday and to the East Coast today, killing at least seven people in the Deep South, spawned over 1,500 reports of severe weather since Sunday, including a record-breaking 1,200-plus reports during one 24-hour period. The hardest hit regions were the Tennessee...

Thunderstorms, Possible Tornadoes Threaten Plains and East Coast

By Paul YeagerApr 2nd 2011 – 5:25PM
AP

AP

A powerful spring storm system will spawn dangerous thunderstorms over a large area from the Plains to the East Coast, starting later Sunday and continuing through Tuesday. The system includes the threat of large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. The storm will also produce more late-season snow in the Northern...

April Could Shower Some of US With More Snow

By Paul YeagerMar 29th 2011 – 8:45AM
David Duprey, AP

David Duprey, AP

Late-season snow has been fairly common from the western mountains to parts of the East Coast this year, and a persistent weather pattern of cooler-than-average temperatures and an active storm track means that more of the same is likely in the coming weeks. In other words, it might be April snow -- not showers -- that...

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Now Open for Summer: 4 Gorgeous Spots Along the East Coast (PHOTOS)

May 28th 2012 - 09:13AM

We don't know about you, but we here at Oyster are ready for summer.

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Brewing Trouble: Breckenridge Considers Move To East Coast

By ryang@huffingtonpost.com(Ryan Grenoble) May 08th 2012 - 06:34PM

With Colorado's legislative session slated to wrap up Wednesday at midnight, the crush is on for lawmakers to act.

East Coast News From the Web

  • 05/29/12 Comedy Central(R) Hires Brooke Posch as Vice... Source: TheFutonCritic.com Posch comes from MTV where she has served as Vice President, Comedy and Animation since 2009.
  • 05/28/12 Now Open for Summer: 4 Gorgeous Spots Along the East... Source: The Huffington Post We don't know about you, but we here at Oyster are ready for summer.
  • 05/28/12 Cleaning Company's East Coast Expansion Gets a Star... Source: PRWeb Atlantic City, NJ (PRWEB) May 28, 2012 When the number one best selling recording artist of the last decade and the greatest rap artist of all time have a party at one of the most expensive casinos in the World, it's probably a good idea to make sure the location is spotless.
  • 05/27/12 Virginia's sea-level rise has fastest rate on the East... Source: Environmental Health News ONLEY An inaugural interactive workshop discussing historic and future sea level trends and their implications for Virginias Eastern Shore is planned for June. Weve got the highest rate of sea level rise on the East Coast, said Skip Stiles, executive director, Wetlands Watch, who will be making a presentation on the historic, current and future sea level changes and potential impact on the Eastern Shore.
  • 05/25/12 East Coast's high-profile traders help keep capital... Source: The Chronicle Herald Canada's capital markets are some of the world's biggest.

Background on East Coast

The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, refers to the easternmost coastal states in the United States, which touch the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada.

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