Kenny Wallace Finishes 13th at Iowa Speedway

Kenny Wallace - Photo Credit: Rainier Ehrhardt / Getty ImagesRAB Racing and Kenny Wallace came into a familiar Iowa Speedway with high hopes of a good finish and excitement to have U.S. Cellular on board for the first time. Iowa Speedway is a track that Kenny Wallace has an almost perfect lap completion record (99.7%),...more»

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Ex-CEO of red-light camera company indicted on corruption charges

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A former chief executive officer of one of the world's largest makers of red-light traffic cameras was indicted on federal corruption charges Wednesday, along with two city officials in Chicago.

A federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment against the three, alleging that ex-Redflex CEO Karen Finley provided approximately $570,000 in cash and other improper benefits to an assistant transportation commissioner in exchange for inside information that helped the Phoenix-based company win contracts in Chicago worth as much as $124 million.

For a decade, Finley schemed with city official John Bills to help secure the rights to city contracts by providing him cash, meals, hotel stays, rental cars and golf outings, according to the charges. Redflex funneled more money to Bills through a friend, Martin O'Malley, who was hired as an independent contractor by the company and passed some of his $2 million in compensation back to Bills, the indictment alleges.

"When public officials peddle influence for profit, the consequences are severe," said Zachary T. Fardon, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. "When corporate executives enable that corruption, the same rule applies. We will attack alleged public corruption from every angle.

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Inaugural Grand Prix Of INDY Road Course Event Pleases On Many Fronts

The pace and feel of a race on the road course at the Grand Prix Of INDY felt a lot like watching a race on the Portland International Raceway track only much larger to scale.

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Will This Year?s ?Operation Safe Cycle? Make Anyone Safer?

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Yesterday NYPD showed New York that police do actually enforce the speed limit on local streets. Check out the radar guns on Broadway. Today the department is showing the city that cyclists get tickets too.
NYPD’s “Operation Safe Cycle” [...]

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LeMons New Jersey Inspections: Jurassic Park Ford, Smokey and the Bandit BMW, Game of Thrones Acura

We were just at New Jersey Motorsports Park a few months ago, and we liked it so much that we’re back again. Yes, it’s the 2014 There Goes the Neighborhood 24 Hours of LeMons, featuring 132 in-your-face, dive-bombing, engine-obliterating East Coast teams! Let’s check out what the justices of the LeMons Supreme Court (I’m taking […]

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Danica Patrick had a tough Friday at Watkins Glen

Each of Friday's two practice sessions at Watkins Glen presented problems for Danica Patrick.

In the first practice, Patrick missed a shift on the road course and sensed a vibration in the engine. After practice the team decided to replace the engine and put in a backup engine, meaning that no matter where she qualified on Saturday, Patrick would start at the rear of the field.

Patrick was on track in the second practice with her fresh engine when she had a parts failure of some sort and crashed in turn five near the end of the session.

Patrick thought she had a tire issue.

?I blew a tire," she said. "I have no idea. I think it was only two laps, the second lap on tires. So apparently (Matt Kenseth) was radioing in saying there was some smoke. I never saw any, but he said he saw it and said ?you guys should pit.? Just in the carousel there is so much load on the left-front there that I guess that was the go spot for it.� It has been a record horrible day I?m pretty sure.?

Crew chief Tony Gibson said he thought the shock might have broken.

?To me it almost looks like the shock broke," Gibson said. "She went into (Turn) one and she said it moved more than it normally did and then Kenseth said it started tire smoking and as soon as he said that she hit.� It looks to me like a shock broke. It looks like it just compressed all down and done.?

The penalty for going to a backup car is, you guessed it, going to the back of the field, but since Patrick was already there from the first practice, she can't go any further.

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Today?s Headlines

Prendergast to Albany: MTA Needs “New, Sustainable Funding”; SAS Phase 2 in Capital Plan (2AS, NYT)
Fire Delays L Train Service (DNA); SI Railway Train Derails for Second Time Since May (Advance)
Meanwhile, Public Still Doesn’t Know Tappan Zee Price Tag or Who Will Foot the Bill (MTR)
Regional Plan Association President Bob Yaro Is Retiring (RPA)
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Kurt Busch Solid in Pocono, Finishes 7th

2013 NSCS Driver Kurt Busch in the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing/Denver Mattress Chevrolet SS - Photo Credit: Jared C. Tilton/Getty ImagesLONG POND, Pa. (June 9, 2013) ? Kurt Busch came back from a pit road glitch to post a solid seventh-place finish in Sunday?s Party at the Poconos 400 Sprint Cup Series race. It...more»

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