| United agent accidentally shot at New Orleans airport and More airlines raise fares to grab tax savings |
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A United Airlines employee was shot in the leg at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International airport this morning when a passenger's rifle accidentally discharged.The agent, who is not being named by the airline, was checking the passenger in when the rifle discharged. The flier, who had declared the gun, is reported to be 65-year-old Edward Deubler, according to the Times-Picayune.Mary Ryan, a spokesperson for United, said that the employee sustained non-life threatening injuries and is reported to be in stable condition.The airline's policy for checking firearms follow federal regulations, which require that guns in checked baggage or separate shipping cases be unloaded and declared.Ryan did not know whether the rifle was in a bag or case when it was handled by the United agent. [Read the full article] Thomas Sawyer, a 62-year-old bladder cancer survivor who made headlines last November after a pat-down left him covered in his own urine, has filed a new complaint with the Transportation Security Administration.A Michigan bladder cancer survivor says TSA agents removed his urostomy bag, soaking his pants, despite warning. WILX reporter Rachel Thomas has the story.Sawyer, who wears a urostomy bag that collects his urine through an opening in his abdomen, said he was traveling through Detroit Metro Airport on July 14 on his way to Orlando when he was singled out for a pat-down.“Before I could even get (out) the words, ‘I want this done privately,’ the agent began patting me down in public,” said Sawyer. [Read the full article] WASHINGTON — In Traverse City, Mich., work on replacing a 30-year-old air traffic control tower at Cherry Capital Airport has been halted. The job was about 40 percent completed, and crews had planned to lift the "cab" section to the top of the tower this week, airport manager Kevin Klein said.It(TM)s Smurfs Week in NYC, and the city is hosting a bevy of blue-tinted, star-studded events tied to the July 29 release of The Smurfs.But that was before a legislative stalemate between Republicans and Democrats in Congress forced the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, the furlough of nearly 4,000 federal workers and the issuance of stop-work orders for dozens of airport construction projects across the country."It's very frustrating," Klein said. "It puts about 50 construction workers out of a job. But about 200 people are involved in this some way " designers, engineers, vendors, delivery folks. [Read the full article] 
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