International Business News - Parking http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif 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. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/134961-less-parking.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080920/cities-rethink-wisdom-of-50s-era-parking-standards.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080920/cities-rethink-wisdom-of-50s-era-parking-standards.htm Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:48:57 EDT 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. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/gold-trader-employee-charged-with-wifes-killing.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:37:18 EDT 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. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/gold-trader-employee-charged-with-wifes-killing.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:05:33 EDT Atlantic City's gambling casinos are not alone in their losing streak. State Treasury Department figures show revenue at the casinos' parking garages was also down by nearly 6 percent between July 2007 and June of this year, http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/atlantic-city-parking-revenue-off-nearly-6-percent.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:45:54 EDT Walt Disney World is revising its employee gun ban policy. That's according to a company memo obtained Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/walt-disney-world-revises-guns-to-work-policy.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:07:28 EDT A woman plowed her car into a group of people during a fight in a tavern parking lot early Wednesday, killing a man and injuring four women, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/car-rams-crowd-during-fight-at-ny-bar-killing-1.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:41:16 EDT 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. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/fla-guns-at-work-law-upheld-by-federal-judge.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:25:55 EDT 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. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/judge-says-fla-workers-can-keep-guns-in-cars.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:55:00 EDT Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry. Officer Chadd Stensgaard, who parked his patrol car illegally while making a dinner-break stop at a Japanese restaurant, must pay a $35 fine, Traffic Court Judge Terry Hannon ruled Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/in-portland-parking-laws-include-police.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:44:34 EDT Georgia Pacific's paper mill in Palatka is joining two Orlando theme parks which claim they are exempt from a new state law allowing employees to keep their guns in their cars at work. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/georgia-pacific-palatka-plant-exempt-from-gun-law.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:18:01 EDT A new Florida law intended to prohibit public and private employers alike from banning guns locked inside cars in their parking lots is so badly written it's "stupid," a federal judge declared Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/federal-judge-calls-new-florida-gun-law-stupid.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:21:02 EDT The state House approved an NRA-backed bill to give employees the right to keep a legally owned firearm locked in their car in a parking lot at their workplace. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/la-bill-to-allow-guns-in-workplace-lots-advances.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:26:17 EDT In this densely populated city, residents compete for jobs, apartments, subway seats, taxicabs, even treadmills in the gym. So when the city announced it was suspending parking regulations in one of its most crowded districts, it inspired something close to pandemonium. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/61509-parking-pandemonium.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/parking-rules-suspension-throws-nyc-into-a-tizzy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/parking-rules-suspension-throws-nyc-into-a-tizzy.htm Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:44:49 EDT Someone in Texas apparently had a guilty conscience, paying up on a parking ticket handed out 21 years before. The Kenosha Police Department says officers found a $6 payment for the ticket, issued Jan. 20, 1987, in a drop box. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080531/ticketed-driver-pays-wis-fine-21-years-later.htm Sat, 31 May 2008 20:50:07 EDT 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. Meters in this north-central Illinois city cost a penny for 12 minutes, a nickel for one hour and a dime for two hours, police chief Don Thomas said. And if you have a quarter you can buy 12 hours of parking. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080523/park-for-just-a-penny-in-sycamore-ill.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 12:13:11 EDT Authorities say it appears no one was injured when a small section of a four-story parking deck in Charlotte, N.C., collapsed. Fire Capt. Rob Brisley says firefighters are still searching the rubble under a collapsed section that was about the size of a basketball court. It collapsed Tuesday morning about 8:30 a.m. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/no-injuries-reported-in-collapsed-n-c-parking-deck.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 09:55:08 EDT 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. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080429/man-charged-in-death-outside-dr-dre-book-signing-party.htm Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:17:00 EDT Shots were fired outside a restaurant where a party had been held for the authors of a biography on rap artist and producer Dr. Dre, killing one man and wounding a second. As many as 300 frantic peo... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080414/shots-kill-1-outside-party-for-rap-book.htm Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:55:25 EDT Florida residents would be able to keep firearms in their vehicles while at work under a bill that has now passed both the Florida House and Senate. The bill passed the Senate on Wednesday and an id... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080409/fla-senate-passes-worker-gun-bill.htm Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:24:39 EDT The executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of parking facilities manager Standard Parking Corp. exercised options for 12,312 shares of common stock, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080326/standard-parking-cfo-exercises-options.htm Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:37:16 EDT