U.S. / Tags / Hours

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 7:54pm neoform

CBS News -- A massive computer failure at United Airlines caused major delays for flights nationwide. The computer glitch grounded hundreds of flights for at least two hours across the country this morning. At 10:10 a.m., United officials said the computers that r.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 1:54pm neoform

SF Gate -- Nearly 400 passengers were stranded aboard a Cathay Pacific Airways jet for more than seven hours Tuesday at San Francisco International Airport, adding yet another planeload of angry consumers to a growing industry backlash. Passengers boarded Flight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:02pm neoform

FOX News -- A homeless ex-convict was arrested in the rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student, who was held hostage for 19 hours in her apartment, cut with a knife and left tied up with the bed set ablaze. Robert Williams, 30, faces attempted mu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 9:49pm neoform

FOX News -- Hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours overnight on airliners that couldn't take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport because of the ice and snow storm that pummeled the Northeast. The exact number of planes stuck on the tarmac was un.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 9:46am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- JetBlue Airways Corp. tried to calm a maelstrom of criticism Thursday, after passengers were left waiting on planes at a New York airport for as long as nine hours during a snow and ice storm. The airline said 10 incoming and outbound flights at John F.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- It soon could get pricier in San Francisco to park in front of your favorite restaurant on a Saturday night or in front of your doctor's office during work hours. City officials hope by early next year to start a two-year pilot project that would radic.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 14, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- A gunman opened fire on four Miami-Dade County police officers during a traffic stop Thursday, killing one and injuring the other three. Police killed the suspect hours later, authorities said. Dozens of officers from police departments across South Fl.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 2:59pm neoform

New York Times -- ON July 29, Continental Flight 1669, a 737-700 with about 120 passengers aboard, was bound for Newark from Caracas, Venezuela, when bad weather caused the plane to be diverted to Baltimore. It sat there for about five hours with passengers on board as foo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 11, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

Washington Post -- Ever since "that night," Kevin Mirando, 13, nervously questions his parents at bedtime: Mom, is the house alarm on? Dad, are the doors locked? How about the windows? When they reassure him that all is safe, he still tosses and turns for hours, unable to n.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 29, 2007 @ 10:41am neoform

USA Today -- Kevin Kelly is a law-abiding citizen who, much distracted, left his beloved 21-month-old daughter in a sweltering van for seven hours. Frances Kelly had probably been dead for more than four hours by the time a neighbor noticed her strapped in her car.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:58pm neoform

FOX News -- Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit. The Mississippi Youth Justice Project sued the state Wednesd.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

Washington Post -- Months-long delays in getting new rail cars and constant overhauls of older ones have left Metro without the equivalent of five to six trains during rush hours on some days, at a time when record numbers of people are riding the subway. For years, Metr.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:15pm neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and set sail for Florida on Friday -- the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season. Barry is the second named storm of the year, after Subtropical Storm Andrea made its debut May 9. In an 8 p.m. ET.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 12:55pm neoform

SF Gate -- Dozens of drivers waited for hours on end today to take advantage of a rare sight: gas in San Francisco for less than $3 a gallon. The going-out-of-business deal -- $2.99 a gallon for regular, a penny more for higher octane -- happened at the Shell sta.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 8:25pm neoform

FOX News -- Former fashion writer Peter Braunstein was convicted Wednesday of charges that he sexually abused a woman for almost 13 hours after posing as a firefighter on Halloween to bluff his way into her Manhattan apartment. The jury needed less than four hours.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 2:11pm neoform

FOX News -- Jurors in Phil Spector's murder trial have heard from women he partied with during a night on the town hours before Lana Clarkson was shot to death in the foyer of his castle-like home. Now, they're due to learn more details about Spector's encounter w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 7:51pm neoform

CNN -- Officials at Virginia Tech said Monday that they thought the situation was under control during the hours between two shootings that claimed 33 lives. "We concluded first that the incident in Ambler Johnston [dormitory] was domestic in nature. In fact.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 16, 2007 @ 4:56pm neoform

SF Gate -- A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, in a classroom across campus Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, government officials told The Associated Press. The gunman was kille.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 4:02pm neoform

FOX News -- It took nearly seven hours, the demolition of a bathroom and a sturdy extension ladder for rescue workers to remove a more than 700-pound woman from her home here, officials said. Rescue workers arrived at the woman's home about 5:45 p.m. Monday in res.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 25, 2007 @ 8:12pm neoform

CNN -- A teenager was killed by a hit-and-run driver at the same spot where his 14-year-old friend had died in a car crash just hours earlier. Andrew Coit, 18, was hit by a car after 4 a.m. Saturday as he played a guitar at a makeshift memorial to Darien Plas.. Read More