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'Zombies Ahead,' Warns Electronic Road Sign in SC

For anyone who doesn't recall the driver's ed section on avoiding undead life forms, you might want to steer clear of South Carolina for a few days. "Zombies Ahead," "Watch for Hunters" and "Be Alert for Tanks" are the three warnings that drivers on Lancaster County's S.C. 160 recently encountered from two seemingly...

Opinion: Government Waste by the Numbers

In an organization as big and sprawling as the federal government, it's sometimes hard to grasp the magnitude of the waste that goes on. But the Government Accountability Office has released a report that gets at this problem in a unique way. It looks at government programs with an eye to rooting out duplication and...

Rhode Island Town Has to Police Illegal Stop Signs

(Nov. 30) -- You can get a ticket for not obeying the big red octagon, but if you're driving in Cranston, R.I., there's a chance the stop sign itself is breaking the law. City officials have discovered that 692 of the 2,600 stop signs in the city were put up illegally. Now they're trying to determine what to do about...

Opinion: Putting a Face on Distracted Driving's Heavy Toll [VIDEO]

(Nov. 16) -- On this page, we've published several op-eds on the huge toll distracted driving is taking on the country's highways and byways. Traffic safety expert Leonard Evans, for example, noted that "driving while distracted is not like drunk driving -- it is far worse." Drunk drivers tend be on the road at night,...

Campaign Aims to Cut Distracted Driving Crashes

(Nov. 16) -- The federal government is putting the faces of deaths from distracted driving crashes on display, hoping a new online video campaign will scare people straight. The Department of Transportation released three videos today in which a mother, a daughter and a father describe the loss of a relative killed in a...