Investigators: Train in deadly wreck was speeding 106 mph
Dozens of others were injured when the New York-bound train crashed in Philadelphia.Read More ...
Lawmakers slash Amtrak funding hours after crash
Just
because the accident struck close to home does not mean Congress will
increase an already shrunken budget for transportation.Read More ...
Ex-CIA official: America no safer than four years ago
Former
CIA deputy director Michael Morell tells Yahoo News that Americans are
less safe from terrorism than they were when President Barack Obama won
reelection in 2012.Read More ...
Penalty phase of Boston bombing trial heads to jury
Closing arguments are set for today in the federal trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Read More ...
Amtrak train in Philadelphia wreck was moving at twice speed limit
By
Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - An Amtrak train that derailed
in Philadelphia, killing seven people and injuring more than 200, was
barreling into a curved stretch of track at 100-plus miles per hour,
twice the speed limit, when the engineer slammed on the brakes, U.S.
investigators said on Wednesday. Hours after launching their probe into
the cause of the accident, experts from the National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) also concluded the derailment would have been
prevented by installation of an advanced safety system called "positive
train control," NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said. The engineer of
the New York City-bound passenger train fully applied the locomotive's
emergency braking system as it entered the left-hand curve in the rail
line, where the maximum allowed speed is 50 mph (80 kph), Sumwalt told a
news conference.Read More ...
Derailed Amtrak train lacked latest U.S. safety controls
By
Patrick Rucker and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -
The commuter rail route where an Amtrak train left the track on Tuesday
was not governed by an advanced safety technology meant to prevent
high-speed derailments, investigators said on Wednesday. A system called
"positive train control" (PTC) automatically slows or even halts trains
that are moving too fast or heading into a danger zone. Under current
law, the rail industry must adopt the technology by the end of this
year. It would have been impossible for a train to reach such speeds if
PTC had been in place, officials said.Read More ...
Fifth suspect arrested in fatal shooting of Mississippi officers
(Reuters)
- A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with the killings of
two Mississippi police officers over the weekend, officials said on
Wednesday. Abram Wade Franklin, 29, was charged with obstruction of
justice over the shootings that occurred during a routine traffic stop
on Saturday, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said in a
statement. Officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, a recent
police academy graduate, were shot after Deen stopped a gold Cadillac
Escalade in the city of Hattiesburg. Autopsy results by the Mississippi
Bureau of Investigations released on Monday showed one of the officers
was shot in the face and the other in the back.Read More ...
Amtrak victims: Naval Academy student and software architect dead, CEO missing
Several people are missing after the fatal Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.Read More ...
Toyota, Nissan recall 6.5 mn cars over exploding airbag fears
Japanese
auto giants Toyota and Nissan on Wednesday said they were recalling 6.5
million vehicles globally in the latest chapter of an exploding airbag
crisis linked to several deaths. The world's biggest automaker said its
recall of five million vehicles affected 35 models globally produced
between 2003 and 2007, while Nissan said it was calling back 1.56
million vehicles also due to faulty airbags made by embattled supplier
Takata. "This will affect many of our markets, including Japan, Europe
and North America," a Nissan spokesman told AFP, adding that the
explosion risk was among a range of problems seen in the defective
airbags.Read More ...
Dozens of Shiites killed as gunmen attack bus in Karachi
Pistol-wielding
gunmen in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi on Wednesday stormed a bus
carrying members of the Shiite Ismaili minority, killing at least 43 in
the second deadliest militant attack in the country this year. The
Jundullah militant faction, a splinter of the Pakistani Taliban, later
said it was responsible for the massacre while police said they also
found leaflets at the scene claiming the attack on behalf of the Islamic
State group. Pakistan has experienced a rising tide of sectarian
violence in recent years, particularly against Shiites, who make up
around 20 percent of the country's predominantly Muslim population of
200 million. "According to the initial information which we have
received from hospitals, 43 people have been killed and 13 wounded,"
Ghulam Haider Jamali, police chief of Sindh province told reporters at
the site in the eastern district of Malir.Read More ...
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