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16 min ago | WAVE-TV Louisville

Family believes death of teen was an accident

The family of Jackleen Lane said she told them she was going to the Shelby County Fair on Saturday, but never called or came home.

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16 min ago | News Times

Metro-North suspended 2 after fatal accident

A Metro-North student traffic controller and his supervisor were suspended without pay after a track foreman was fatally struck by a train last month, a railroad spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: West Haven, CT, East Haven, CT

16 min ago | WAOW

Police: Spencer man killed in car-train crash

Ashland County authorities say a La Crosse doctor and his brother were killed in a single-engine plane crash on Madeline Island.

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Related Topix: La Pointe, WI, Stevens Point, WI, US News

3 hrs ago | WEAU-TV Eau Claire

Man killed in collision involving train, car

The Clark County Sheriff's Department says the driver was the sole occupant in the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Related Topix: Eau Claire, WI

4 hrs ago | York Dispatch

Doctor: Driver in Okla. train wreck had bad eyes

An investigator says the driver of a Union Pacific Railroad train that failed to comply with slow and stop signals before a deadly 2012 accident in the Oklahoma Panhandle had complained of failing eyesight in recent years.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma, Oklahoma Government

6 hrs ago | River Front Times

Pat Bray: Blanchette Bridge Accident Kills Worker Weeks Before Retirement

Patrick Bray, a 51-year-old worker on the Blanchette Bridge rehabilitation project, was preparing this month for his retirement.

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Related Topix: Jerseyville, IL

8 hrs ago | Marine Corps Times

Military plans would put women in most combat jobs

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Iraq, World News, Middle East, Boat Disaster, US Navy

12 hrs ago | KWTX

Citizens Apply for Last Minute Individual Aid as FEMA Closes Its Doors to West Residents

Tuesday may end up being an ordinary day for most, but for any West citizen who hasn't registered with FEMA for individual disaster assistance, its crunch time.

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Related Topix: FEMA, US News, Non-Profit

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Star Press

UPDATED: Pedestrian dies after being struck by train

MUNCIE -- A pedestrian was killed after she was struck by a moving train in Muncie late Monday morning.

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Related Topix: Muncie, IN

NBC29

Former School Bus Driver Indicted on Child Sex Charges

Virginia State Police arrested Farley in April. His charges include one count of indecent liberties with a child and six counts of proposing sex through a computer system.

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Related Topix: Augusta County, VA, University of Virginia

WTEN-TV Albany

Police: Man charged with DWI after driving down railroad tracks

Police in Waterford have arrested a man for allegedly driving while intoxicated after he drove his car down railroad tracks and it became stuck.

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Related Topix: Waterford, NY, Albany, NY

ABC 27

Police investigate shots-fired incident in Carlisle

Carlisle police said several calls about a fight in the 400 block of N. Pitt Street were followed by a report of shots fired Sunday night.

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Related Topix: Carlisle, PA, Pennsylvania

Jalopnik

In Cambodia They'll Build You A Train Out Of Bamboo

Cambodia is littered with old bits of infrastructure from the French occupation and colonization, including a whole bunch of train tracks.

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Related Topix: Autos

Rediff.com

Photos: Heavy rains hit train services, makes Mumbai crawl

Heavy rains continued to lash Mumbai and the adjoining Thane district, causing water-logging in the city and the suburbs and hitting suburban train services on the central line as the tracks were flooded.

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Related Topix: India, World News,

Sun Jun 16, 2013

ABS-CBN News

No Pinoys killed in Argentina train crash

No Filipino was killed or injured when two passenger trains collided in Buenos Aires, Argentina last Thursday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Argentina, World News

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

One person taken to hospital after car collides with Port Authority light-rail train

At least one person was taken to a local hospital this afternoon after a car collided with a Port Authority light-rail train.

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Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Dormont, PA

KWTX

Four-Vehicle Crash On County Road Leaves 4 Dead, Six Injured

Four people were killed and at least six others were hurt in a four-vehicle crash late Saturday night on a North Texas county road.

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Related Topix: Rendon, TX, Fort Worth, TX, Tarrant County, TX

Argus Leader

Train hits, kills Iowa woman at crossing

BOONE, Iowa — Boone police say a train has struck and killed a woman in the central Iowa city.

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Related Topix: Boone, IA

CBS Local

Victim In Texas Parade Crash Accused Of Lying

An ex-police officer from Georgia who was injured in a train accident during a veterans parade in Texas is accused of lying about receiving a Purple Heart medal and was arrested Wednesday, Cherokee County sheriff's officials said.

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Related Topix: Midland, TX, Life, Veteran Affairs

Sat Jun 15, 2013

ClickOnDetroit

Pedestrian killed by freight train on Hall Road

A fatal accident involving a freight train and a pedestrian occurred Saturday on the railroad tracks between Fairchild Road and westbound Hall Road in Macomb Twp.

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