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The merchant who buttonholed the top U.S. military officer at a street market on the outskirts of Baghdad wasn't worried about car bombs or infiltrators in suicide vests.
Chicago is cashing in on its much-criticized parking meter deal.
Activists across the nation parked themselves curbside Friday, taking up spaces reserved for cars and transforming them into mini parks with sod, potted plants, lawn chairs and even barbecues to raise awareness about how the auto has won the battle over public space in big cities.
Paul McCartney will perform at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium while the Texas Rangers play next door.
Rescuers used dogs, listening devices and thermal cameras to scour a collapsed parking deck near downtown Atlanta Tuesday to make sure no victims were in the debris while crews used cranes to lift out crushed cars.
The Los Angeles Dodgers will allow fans to park for free during the team's June 16-18 series against the Oakland Athletics.
Parking lots have a lot to do with economic recovery. Really.
A woman drew a maximum sentence of five to 15 years in prison Wednesday for ramming her car into a crowd during a fight in a tavern parking lot, killing a man and injuring four women.
Police said two roommates began fighting over a parking space on Thursday night, and the dispute ended when one man bit off the other's earlobe. Officer Kevin Krebs said it appeared that the victim came home and parked in a spot preferred by his roommate, starting the fight.
Sit back, relax and let your car parallel park itself — without a single scratch or ding to your bumper.
Mayor William Floyd pulled up to a parking space, dialed a number into his cell phone and watched as two hours of paid time flashed on the meter in front of his car.
Officials are proposing new rules that would greatly expand bicycle parking in apartment and office buildings around the city, the latest step in a plan to make New York one of the most bike-friendly places in the nation.
Alice and Jeff Speck didn't have a car and didn't want one. But District of Columbia zoning regulations required them to carve out a place to park one at the house they were building.
A wealthy gold trader was charged Monday with paying one of his workers to arrange the stabbing death of the businessman's estranged wife, authorities said.
In the race to determine who should be Pennsylvania's chief law enforcer for the next four years, the discussion has lately swirled around the most minor of offenses — an expired parking meter.
Employees with concealed weapons permits can keep guns locked in their cars at work in Florida, but businesses are allowed to prohibit customers from bringing firearms on their property, a federal judge has ruled.
Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry.
In this densely populated city, residents compete for jobs, apartments, subway seats, taxicabs, even treadmills in the gym.
There's at least one city left in the United States where you just have to feed a penny into the parking meters: Sycamore, Ill.
A man described as a violent gang member has been charged with murder in a shooting that followed a party for the authors of a biography on rap artist and producer Dr. Dre.
Federal officials are considering plans to cut down several trees at Grand Canyon National Park to add hundreds of parking spots and ease traffic at the popular South Rim.
When it comes to wiping out a bank account, forget holiday shopping. Just parking their cars cost some Norwegians between $37,000 and $148,000.
Parking in tight spaces is a cinch with a new display from Nissan showing a panoramic bird's-eye-view of what's surrounding a car — a feature that the Japanese automaker says is a first for commercially mass-produced vehicles.
When Maureen Birdsall took her disabled, 92-year-old grandfather to a California hospital, she lost the only available handicapped-parking spot to a woman in a red corvette.
A suburban parking official is threatening to auction off a Marine Corps recruiter's car tied to nearly $5,000 in unpaid tickets, part of what the city claims is the Corps' roughly $94,000 tab.
I'll fight on, vows doctor banned from parking scooter on his own land A medical expert today threatened to continue to "break the law" in his legal battle with a London council which has repeatedly fined him for parking on his own land.
Red-Zone Parking A Mistake, Governor SaysSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said photographs of his vehicle illegally parked in a red zone are proof that even he makes mistakes.
If you must traverse a parking lot to get to your destination, that does not turn it into a freeway. By the time you circle the lot four times looking for a "better one", you could have been half-way done shopping.
Police blow up sports car A sports car which had been illegally parked near Downing Street was blown up by police.
Wheel clampers rake in £3,000 an HOUR in shopping centre car park | Mail OnlineWheel clampers collected an astonishing £3,000 an hour as they targeted shoppers at one of the country's biggest retail centres.Parking control at Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre was handed over to a private firm this week, and customers ended up paying the price.In one t …
12 worst parking error videos on YouTubeEvery motorist has misjudged a parking manoeuvre at some point in their lives. Here are 12 car park howlers that might help wash away the embarrassment.
Shriver Caught Parking IllegallySACRAMENTO, Calif. -- First lady Maria Shriver appears to need a refresher on California traffic laws.
Traffic warden 'badgered mother to move her car' as she tried to stop her baby from choking to death A mother today claimed she was 'badgered' repeatedly by a parking warden to move her car - while she desperately tried to stop her baby son from choking to death.
Revenue Raising: Cash-Strapped Cities Pile On The Parking FinesIt's the very definition of a bad day. No quarters in your pocket, the line at the post office is longer than expected or you need to grab lunch and don't have time to circle the block and find parking.
Heathrow Unveils Creepy Driverless Taxi System you have to see it to believe it.
Retractable fifth wheel for tight parking spots - videoThis ingenious hacker from Egypt put a fifth wheel, mounted perpendicular to the other four, on the back of his beater car.
Tax for parking at work BRITISH motorists who drive to work will have to pay a £250 (S$597) 'parking tax' under a scheme to be announced by the government on Friday.
How Self-parking Cars WorkWho ever invented self parking cars should also create self driving cars.
Parking in your own driveway? Here's a ticketResidents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.
Parking in your own driveway? Here's a ticketResidents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.
Ohioans ticketed for parking in own driveways - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsI'm a practicing architect, and I can say that both architects and civil engineers generally regard gravel as a type of paving.
Disabled pensioner fined £75 for displaying parking badge upside downA parking warden gave a £75 fine to a disabled pensioner because he displayed his blue badge the wrong way round in his window.
Judge: Blaring your car horn is not free speechIn Snohomish County, Wash., a Superior Court judge upheld the conviction of a woman who expressed her anger at a neighbor by leaning on her car horn at 6 a.m.
NY Car Gets Weeks of Parking Tickets: Dead Body In Plain View InsideNEW YORK (CBS) ―A New York City woman said her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle, seen here, below the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway underpass.
Daughter wonders how cops could ticket minivan for weeks - and never notice dad's decomposing bodyThe daughter of a man whose badly decomposed body was found inside a minivan said Thursday traffic cops should have noticed her father over the several weeks they covered the vehicle in parking tickets.
Helpful 12-year-old girl demolishes five carsA helpful 12-year-old girl sent to ensure her parent's parking pass was displayed in the family car ended up demolishing five vehicles in the lot of public swimming pool in Bad Salzuflen in North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday.
Chicago parking meters broken, sends motorists, cops and leasing company into scramble modeSome 250 newly installed pay-and-display parking boxes abruptly and inexplicably stopped working, providing fresh vexation across downtown for almost the entire workday and forcing officials to stop writing parking tickets as crews scurried to make repairs.
No More Credit Card Fees - NY Parking TicketsA brilliant way to reduce and pass those "savings" on to the offender. Creative, innovative and what more companies should do: Just say no to plastic.
Washington DC Cops Now Handing Out Parking Tickets To Residents Parking In Their Own DrivewaysBeverly Anderson is mad as hell. She just started to get tickets for parking in her own driveway. That's right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways.
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