Transportation

The Mississippi House reversed itself Tuesday and passed a bill to create a state lottery in the Bible Belt state where churches have long opposed it.

The airline is boosting the number of flights to top college football towns and using larger aircraft to shuttle more fans per flight.

Chinese officials have defended Beijing's initiative to build railways and other infrastructure across Asia against complaints it leaves countries with too much debt after Malaysia canceled two high-profile projects.

The airline will now charge $30 for the first checked bag.

Hundreds of workers from two major shipyards are protesting in the Croatian capital of Zagreb over unpaid wages and working conditions.

A fire in a building near Zurich's main train station is disrupting traffic and transport in Switzerland's biggest city.

New Jersey Transit has been rejected for additional federal money as it scrambles to install a required safety system by year's end.

A new inland port terminal that moves cargo by train from northern Georgia to the busy coastal seaport in Savannah is generating new economic interest in an area better known for nature tourism than industry.

American Airlines is dropping money-losing flights between Chicago and Shanghai, and Hawaiian Airlines will suspend its only route to China because of low demand.

Shippers can now book freight loads with the few clicks of a button.

Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk says it will send a cargo vessel through the Russian Arctic for the first time as a result of melting sea ice.

Jet fuel is 36.5 percent higher than it was a year ago, according to industry trade organization the International Air Transport Association.

Little has changed in the two years since Congress prodded airlines to seat children 13 and younger next to an adult family member at no extra cost.

Authorities say a plane that blew two tires during takeoff at a small New Jersey airport will attempt to make an emergency landing at an airport in Massachusetts.

The Latest on a small jet that blew two tires while taking off (all times local): 3:20 p.m.