Why should Kathleen A. Frascinella, 61, have to sit in traffic when she's on her way into the city for mani-pedis with her gal pal, just because that friend appears to be an insentient wooden mannequin? (She's actually a lot of fun once you get a few drinks in her or introduce her to Andrew McCarthy.) Yesterday morning Frascinella was cruising down the Long Island Expressway in the High Occupancy Vehicle [HOV] lane with her fashionable friend—let's call her "Emmy"—in the passenger seat, when she ran into trouble with the law. more ›

Drivers will go to some strange lengths to take advantage of HOV lanes: Yesterday, a Suffolk deputy sheriff pulled over a driver and his Plexiglas passenger. more ›