Train Disaster News

Skokie Criminal charges have been filed against Rayshawn Taylor, 17 , of the 1900 block of Jackson Avenue in Evanston, in connection with a shooting that took place outside Old Orchard Mall near the intersection of Golf Road and Skokie Boulevard.

Heathrow operator BAA says it is expecting business as usual on Saturday after a British Airways plane had to return to the airport to make an emergency landing on Friday morning.

Despite six bogies of a local train passing over Navi Mumbai resident Kamlesh Shinde at Juinagar station, he managed to come out from below the train with his limbs intact.

A BNSF worker was struck and killed by a train while working on the tracks early this morning, Friday, May 24, 2013 at the BNSF Rail Way San Bernardino Intermodal Facility, in San Bernardino.

An elite search and rescue team in Utah was put on alert this week after a tornado blew through Oklahoma on Monday.

Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to buildings occupied by the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration .

The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said Friday without explaining what the condition was, though they did say repair work was done last month in the area of the crash.

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Officials said the accident happened at about 3:45 a.m. in Melbourne when a northbound Florida East Coast Railway freight train was hit by the car at Eau Gallie Boulevard.

MARTA officials say yesterday's early morning collision of a bus and train in Decatur that caused traffic slow to a crawl for several hours happened after the transit vehicle got "stuck" on the at-grade railroad crossing.

John Kovach Passengers who were on trains that collided at the Bridgeport-Fairfield line Friday, May 17, walk toward a bus to be taken to their destination.

Virginia State Police is continuing its investigation into an early morning crash on eastbound Route 33, South Spotswood Trial, approximately one-tenth of a mile east of Route 636, Valentine Mill Road, in Louisa County.

The fertilizer-plant explosion that killed 14 and injured about 200 others in Texas last month highlights the failings of a U.S. federal law intended to save lives during chemical accidents, a Reuters investigation has found.

A train collided with a truck in Wichita Falls sending the vehicle into a ditch.

Two men were killed in a fiery truck and car collision near Wubin, 300km north-east of Perth and a third was airlifted to RPH late last night.

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The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen.

Officers were dispatched to Avenue I after receiving reports of a male breaking out the windows of the Viaero Wireless store.

As a jury deliberates whether Jodi Arias should live or die for killing her one-time boyfriend, the convicted murderer says she deserves a chance at freedom someday.

She said when she heard the train and saw the lights, she and others got off the bus and ran.