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Perched atop a 1962 Crown Pumper fire engine, Hannah-Beth Jackson sat on a plastic bucket labeled "Class A Foam" that was nestled between two rolls of fire hose, using her teeth to pull on a pair of white ...

The terrible Metrolink tragedy in Chatsworth a few weeks ago is something we hope we will never see again.

Traumatised by Indian American Karthick Rajaram shooting dead his family of five and then turning the gun on himself after becoming a pauper, residents of the upscale Los Angeles suburb they lived in and ...

Recently, Racheal Mofya opened an eye. She squeezed a doctor's hand. Bedside visitors saw her wiggle her toes.

At its first meeting since the deadly Metrolink crash in Chatsworth, the Ventura County Transportation Commission spent more than an hour Friday discussing potential liability in closed session.

Federal regulators issued an emergency order Thursday banning use of cell phones and other electronic devices by rail workers, a day after investigators said a commuter-train engineer was text messaging moments ...

IF there is a silver lining to the deadly Metrolink crash in Chatsworth last month, it is the heightened attention to rail safety in the country, and especially in Southern California.

A fire erupts as workers try to clear the wreckage of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train that collided head-on the previous afternoon, on September 13, 2008 in the Los Angeles area community of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The following is an update of the NTSB's investigation of the September 12, 2008 accident in Chatsworth, California involving a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train.

A Metrolink engineer driving a commuter train sent a text message about 22 seconds before the train collided with a Union Pacific freight train last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said ...

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Sat, Sep 27, 2008 The people who were killed Sept. 12 in a California train crash could possibly have been saved if an anti-collision technology that has been around for 30 years had been in place.

TV Online Freight brakeman in deadly LA train collision sues LOS ANGELES - The brakeman on the freight train in a deadly collision near Los Angeles is suing the other railroad and the companies that provide its ...

A San Fernando Valley woman has been charged with unlawfully operating an unlicensed group home for child actors and violating a law that protects the children from predatory talent agencies.

The MTA board recommended that the Metrolink board OK automatic train stop technology after a deadly crash near the Simi Valley train station, seen here.

As I predicted, the State Bar of California is reportedly investigating complaints of "capping" & "running" by unethical attorneys who are seeking victims of the Chatsworth train crash by direct contact too ...

In a personal reflection on his county website, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky writes about going to the scene of the Metrolink crash in Chatsworth and talking with the relatives of victims.

WASHINGTON -- Spurred by the deadly head-on crash of two trains in Chatsworth, congressional negotiators agreed Tuesday to a groundbreaking rail safety reform bill requiring many passenger and freight trains to ...

Our hearts go out to the victims. But this tragedy should not have happened. It happened because of human error on the part of Metrolink employees.

It's far from certain that the Metrolink engineer's texting played any role in the Sept.