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23 hrs ago | Santa Barbara Independent

Hannah-Beth Jackson Is Fighting Like Hell

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 ...

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Related Topix: Simi Valley, CA, Santa Barbara Metro, Santa Barbara, CA, Ventura County, CA, Train Disaster

Thu Oct 09, 2008

Santa Barbara Independent

Chatsworth Tragedy Shines Light on Need to Overhaul Entire Corridor

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

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Ventura, CA, Santa Barbara, CA

Wed Oct 08, 2008

Nerve News

LA community traumatised by Indian American's killing spree, offered counselling

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 ...

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, UC Los Angeles, Porter-Ranch, CA, Los Angeles County, CA

Tue Oct 07, 2008

Los Angeles Times

Zambian woman's ambitions waylaid by Metrolink crash

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

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Related Topix: World News, Zambia, Africa, Los Angeles Metro

Sun Oct 05, 2008

Ventura County Star

Potential liability an issue in Metrolink crash

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.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Simi Valley, CA, Ventura County, CA, Oxnard, CA

Fri Oct 03, 2008

The Record

Railroad regulators issue emergency cell phone ban

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 ...

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Cell Phones, Electronics

LA Daily News

Grade-crossing deaths are true rail problem

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.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Metro, Opinion

Thu Oct 02, 2008

WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati

Senate Passes Railroad Safety Bill

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 ...

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

NTSB's investigation of the Metrolink, UP accident in California

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.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Electronics

Wed Oct 01, 2008

CNN

Engineer sent text 22 seconds before crash

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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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Cell Phones, Electronics, Sacramento Metro

Mon Sep 29, 2008

Orange Co. Register

Metrolink may add engineer to commuter trains

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Related Topix: Dianne Feinstein, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Barbara Boxer

Sat Sep 27, 2008

Las Vegas Sun

Lives can be saved : Federal law should require greater use of...

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.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster

Fri Sep 26, 2008

Dayton Daily News

Freight brakeman in deadly LA train collision sues

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 ...

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Related Topix: Train Disaster

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Woman Charged With Running Unlicensed Group Home

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.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Reseda, CA

Daily Breeze

MTA recommends train safety rules

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.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster

Thu Sep 25, 2008

LawFuel.com

Chatsorth Metrolink Accident "Capping" and "Running" Being Addressed by State Bar

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 ...

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Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Train Disaster

LA Observed

Zev 'haunted' by Chatsworth *

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.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster

Wed Sep 24, 2008

Los Angeles Times

Congressional negotiators reach compromise on rail safety measure

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 ...

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Related Topix: US News, Train Disaster, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat

Tue Sep 23, 2008

PR-inside.com

Announcement for families and survivors of the Meetrolink Chatsworth train Crash

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.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Placentia, CA, Burbank, CA, Los Angeles, CA

Press-Telegram

Distracted driving

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

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Related Topix: Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA, Cell Phones, Electronics, Opinion

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