CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers were fatally struck by a train Monday as they investigated a report of gunshots on the city’s far South Side. Eduardo Marmolejo, 37, and Conrad Gary, 31, were pursuing a person who had headed toward train tracks and were hit shortly after 6 p.m. as the commuter train […]
An amtrak train, on its way through Philadelphia, has reportedly derailed in the Port Richmond section of the city this evening. According to NBC Philadelphia,…
Police are on the lookout for two men who assaulted a passenger on a St. Louis train for refusing to speak about the Michael Brown case,…
CHICAGO (AP) — An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at an underground station at one of the nation’s busiest airports early Monday, injuring 32 people on board, officials said. No one suffered life-threatening injuries in the Blue Line derailment at O’Hare International Airport, Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago […]
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — The revelation that a New York City commuter train derailed while barreling into a sharp curve at nearly three times the speed limit is fueling questions about whether automated crash-avoidance technology could have prevented the carnage. Safety officials have championed what’s known as positive train control technology for decades, but the […]
ROME (AP) – A teenager died while playing a game of chicken with a freight train early Sunday, police said. Malik Cortez Johnson, 17, of Rome was playing on train tracks with five or six friends who were lying on the tracks and daring each other to jump off at the last minute as a […]
