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US Orders Sweeping Changes to Airline Fees, Tarmac Rules

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

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

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

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

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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THE HUFFINGTON POST

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

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

THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

Brewing Trouble: Breckenridge Considers Move To East Coast

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

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06/02/12 Greens slam Bay of Fires decision Source: Examiner THE Tasmanian Greens have hit out at the government's decision to abandon plans for a Bay of Fires national park for the second consecutive budget.
06/02/12 'It was like a freight train': Several rare tornadoes... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK Several rare tornadoes battered parts of the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic Friday night, setting much of the Eastern Seaboard up for a soggy Saturday full of flood warnings, high winds, and heavy rain.
06/01/12 Ports rush to dredge harbors Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review A wider, deeper Panama Canal will open in 2014, meaning that larger cargo ships filled with more containers of consumer goods can move directly to the population centers of the East Coast instead of stopping on the West Coast and sending the goods across the country.
06/01/12 Experts revise forecast, now expect 5 hurricanes | Get... Source: Orlando Sentinel - Orlando FL The two Colorado State University climatologists said they increased their projections largely because it still is uncertain whether El NiÃ±o will develop in time to suppress tropical systems.
06/01/12 Slash on beaches too common Source: The Gisborne Herald - Gisborne - New Zealand I AM amazed at the cavalier attitude the Eastland Wood Council CEO displayed in responding to the allegations of slash being washed from out of his members' forests.

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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