NTSB says Amtrak engineer didn’t use cellphone before crash
By JOAN LOWY The engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download data just before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, safety investigators…
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Investigators recover black boxes after train wreck kills 6
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Rescue crews searched the mangled wreckage for victims Wednesday as investigators tried to determine why an Amtrak train hurtled off the tracks in a crash that killed…
AP Exclusive: Fuel-hauling trains could derail at 10 a year
The federal government predicts that trains hauling crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the next two decades, causing more than $4 billion…
Probe into fatal crash centers on how SUV ended up on tracks
By JIM FITZGERALD and JENNIFER PELTZ An investigation into what caused a fiery crash that killed a motorist and five rail riders is focusing on how a mother of three…
DC subway hobbled after smoke filled train, killing 1
By BEN NUCKOLS and JESSICA GRESKO The transit network in the nation’s capital was hobbled Tuesday after an electrical malfunction filled a busy subway station with smoke a day earlier,…
At least 9 arrested in third night of California protests
By KRISTIN J. BENDER and PAUL ELIAS Berkeley police say nine people were arrested as crowds marched for a third night in a row to protest grand jury decisions not…
Amtrak train hits vehicle on tracks, killing 3
By PHILIP MARCELO In this photo provided by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police via Twitter, officials work at the scene Monday, June 23, 2014, where an Amtrak train…
PAKISTAN TALKS WITH TALIBAN TEAM DELAYED
By MUNIR AHMED Pakistani religious cleric and member of Taliban’s negotiating committee Maulana Sami-ul-Haq arrives for a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. A three-member committee appointed…