Fort Bragg cab driver attacked
 
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Mendocino County sheriff’s deputies Monday continued looking for a man suspected of beating a Fort Bragg taxi driver.

The driver was attacked while carrying two intoxicated men from a party late Saturday night in Fort Bragg, Lt. Dennis Bushnell said Monday.
The taxi driver, Dan Goekler, 51, of Fort Bragg [...]

Man Points Gun at Cab Driver 
 
TERRA HAUTE, Ind. — One man’s in jail accused of pointing a gun at a cab driver.
It happened early Sunday morning at a home on Blue Ridge Drive in Vigo County.
The sheriff’s department arrested 47-year-old Tom Pemberton.
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A Yellow Cab driver said he drove Pemberton around Terre Haute to restaurants [...]

Ordinance Would Regulate Metro Taxis
 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Metro Council is considering a new ordinance to reign in unregulated taxi cabs.
 The Nashville Business Journal reported several services are carrying passengers without insurance or oversight. That’s a risk for passengers and a competitive disadvantage for regulated taxi services.
The new ordinance would mandate all vehicles have insurance [...]

Taxi-voucher program could save city some money
 
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Phoenix launched its taxi-voucher pilot last December to help deal the rising cost of the Dial-A-Ride program, which has been around in some form since the 1970s.
Dial-A-Ride has a $13.5 million annual budget The city uses that money to hire a private company to run the program [...]

State-wide regulations on taxi safety move forward
 
NEW LENOX, Ill. — Trusting your driver is something many may consider, especially if the driver is a stranger.
With a bill recently passed by the Illinois House of Representatives, residents could feel more secure about who is driving their taxi.
House Bill 5486 requires all taxi cab drivers in Illinois [...]

GPS eyed in drive to nail meter-cheating cabbies
 
NEW YORK CITY — Crooked cabbies trying to pull off the same massive meter scam as ex-driver Wasid Khalid Cheema — who holds the record rip-off crown — could soon find themselves tripped up by GPS technology.
Cheema’s taxi license was revoked last month after the Taxi and Limousine [...]

Buffalo cab driver shot
 
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo cab driver was shot overnight, but the wound was not considered life-threatening.
Bryan Richards, 50, of Buffalo, was shot at about 1:45 a.m. near East North and Herman streets by two men wearing black hoodies who attempted to rob him, officers said.
Richards was taken by Rural Metro ambulance to [...]

Cabbie in stable condition after attack
 
CHICAGO, Ill. — Police are looking for a man who stabbed a cab driver during an attempted robbery.
 Police said the cab driver picked up a man around 11:30 p.m. in the 2400-block of West Hirsch on the city’s Northwest Side Thursday.
The man demanded money and when the cab driver refused, he [...]

Killer of Memphis cabbie found guilty, sentenced to life in prison
 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A teenager arrested in 2004 for a series of robberies of cab drivers was convicted Friday of killing one of them with a butcher knife.
Roderick Moore, now 22, was automatically sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder, a verdict reached by [...]

‘Assaulted’ Cabbie Apologizes to Campbell
 
NEW YORK CITY — The cab driver who accused Naomi Campbell of assaulting him earlier this week has apologized to the supermodel, saying in a statement from his lawyer that he “got angry and overreacted […] This whole thing has been blown out of proportion and I apologize to Ms. Campbell [...]