Read for the literal meaning in writing (The Biloxi Sun Herald) Sixty-nine years ago this week, the zeppelin Hindenburg exploded at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Thirty-six persons lost their lives. A dream of lighter-than-air travel abruptly ended. A correspondent for Knight-Ridder newspapers provided some descriptive details:

Bayonne To Add New Light Rail Stop (CBS 2 New York) The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail has changed travel in Northern New Jersey. A new stop is being planned for Eighth Street and Avenue C.

Flavorful views of the Statue of Liberty (The Star-Ledger) There's an old maxim that if the view at a restaurant is spectacular, the food is usually less so. Happily, it's not true at Liberty House, where the glittering panorama of Jersey City and lower Manhattan from waterside isn't the only reason to travel to Liberty State Park for dinner.

CONSUMER TRAVEL: Unfriendly skies may swell this summer (The Charlotte Observer) So just what does it take to get kicked off an airplane these days?

Insurers face backlash over foreign-travel policy (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) As more Americans travel to remote parts of the world for both business and pleasure, controversy is growing over a little-known insurance-industry practice: denying customers life insurance because of their foreign-travel plans.