Yesterday: Bridge goes up as I'm driving to work. Bridge gets stuck. Police eventually re-route traffic over other span. I get to work 35 minutes late, an hour after first arriving at the bridge (5 minutes from my job...). Taking the alternate route, over the other bridge, would have added another half hour to the commute ( Read more... )

LB had another bad 24 hours. Yesterday morning around 8:00, an out-of-control FedEx truck mowed down and killed a pedestrian, then struck a parked car, injuring the woman sitting inside and knocking the car into two others. Very early this morning, a bomb threat closed the main bridge for about four hours, from around 5:00 to almost 9:00. The ( Read more... )