Rebecca Grover from the Maine Turnpike Authority discussed the upcoming Work Zone Safety Awareness Week to emphasize the importance of safe driving in construction zones. She highlighted that 77% of drivers exceeded the work zone speed limit last summer, with 45% driving over 20 mph above the limit. Distracted driving, including activities like eating and applying makeup, also poses significant risks. Grover noted a rise in work zone crashes in Maine from 2020 to 2025, with 3,000 crashes. The initiative includes a partnership with local schools to educate teens on safe driving. Grover encouraged the public to obey laws, wear orange on April 22, and support the cause.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell's abrupt exit from the race for California governor left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader, injecting more turmoil into the campaign to lead the nation's most populous state.
The largest monthly jump in gas prices in six decades caused a sharp spike in inflation in March, creating major challenges for the inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve and heightening the political challenges of rising costs for the White House.
Republican Clay Fuller on Tuesday won Marjorie Taylor Greene's former U.S. House seat in Georgia, turning back a Democratic challenge with the help of President Donald Trump's endorsement despite uneasiness over the war in Iran.
A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims' relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.
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