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- Passenger train collides with sanitation truck
- JACKSON, Miss. AP -- An Amtrak passenger train collided with a garbage truck Tuesday on a rural stretch of central Mississippi track, injuring at least seven people, authorities said. Three of those taken to hospitals were Amtrak employees who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said. ...
- Research articles 2008-05-28
- 2 trains on same track will be focus of probe
- CHICAGO AP -- Federal transportation officials said Saturday their main priority as they investigate a train collision on Chicago's South Side is to figure out why both trains were on the same track at the same time. People were catapulted from their seats when the double-decker Amtrak train...
- Research articles 2007-12-02
- Brickbats
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Roosevelt Sims was experiencing diabetic shock, but an Amtrak crew thought he was drunk. They put him off the train in the middle of a national forest in Arizona, two miles from the nearest road. He was found several days later, dehydrated and disoriented, about two miles...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Trash-truck blaze shuts I-95, rail lines
- Traffic on roads and rails through Delaware County was snarled for hours yesterday thanks to a spectacular trash-truck fire on an I-95 overpass that sent flaming garbage raining down on SEPTA and Amtrak rail lines."This day has been a mess," said Trooper Jon Sunderlin of the Media state police barracks.After...
- Research articles 2007-09-26
- Letters to the editor
- Free to hurt ourselves On Jan. 31, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported on the death of a KU student east of Lawrence. He wasn't wearing a seat belt and was thrown from his vehicle. His passenger, who was wearing a belt, suffered only minor injuries. The same...
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- The New England Council Lauds U.S. House for Passing Spending Bill
- BOSTON -- The New England Council today lauded the U.S. House of Representatives for passing a spending bill which includes additional funding for several areas important to the New England economy. Last night, House members passed a bill which includes additional funding for many programs, including the National Institutes...
- Research articles 2007-02-02
- Slippery slope
- One problem political debaters often encounter when using a slippery-slope argument is that it's easy to overstate one's fears. So why do so many still use them? Simple; the argument is usually prescient. The slippery slope is employed when it's easy to see that if A happens, B will follow...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- Man critical after train hits him
- OAKLAND -- An unidentified man, who was struck by an Amtrak train Wednesday evening in East Oakland, was in critical condition at a local hospital with broken bones and possible internal injuries. The accident happened at 7:54 p.m. on the tracks between High Street and Coliseum Way,...
- Research articles 2007-01-18
- Health coverage now
- Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signed a bill into law Wednesday that requires virtually all state residents to have health insurance. The law says all individuals who can afford to buy insurance must do so. The state will subsidize coverage for low-income residents. Massachusetts has about 550,000 uninsured in a population...
- Research articles 2006-04-13
- Huffing and puffing
- Ever since Ronald Reagan slammed Jimmy Carter with the words, "There you go again," to counter one of Carter's distortions, the phrase has been used as a put down in political debate. It's used so often that it is almost a cliche. We don't much care for the phrase because...
- Research articles 2005-11-14
- Manteca man receives award
- MANTECA -- There have been 35 fatal accidents involving people trespassing on railroad tracks this year in California. Thanks to Manteca resident Frank Vielma, No. 36 has yet to occur. At about 8 p.m. July 26, Vielma spotted a woman standing on the railroad tracks that run...
- Research articles 2005-08-21
- 20 are injured when truck and Amtrak train collide
- SOMIS, Calif. AP -- An Amtrak train collided with a dump truck crossing the tracks in Southern California, injuring 20 people, officials said. It was the second collision between an Amtrak train and a dump truck in the country this week. On Tuesday, a train hit a truck...
- Research articles 2005-08-07
- Caption only: Amtrak accident
- Rescue workers carry an injured passenger near the scene of a train derailment Sunday near Home Valley, Wash. The train, bound for Portland, Ore., was carrying 115 people when the locomotive's wheels left the track, leaving four passenger cars leaning upright against an embankment in the Columbia River Gorge, about...
- Research articles 2005-04-04
- Someone needs to address unsafe railroad crossing
- WHAT A sad situation we had to be reminded of again this weekend behind Tennyson High School when another student was hit and killed by an Amtrak train. We need to provide a safe crossing here for our public high school kids as soon as possible. Amtrak...
- Research articles 2005-02-25
- Amtrak train derails near Utah-Colorado line; six people hurt, none
- MACK, Colo. -- An Amtrak train carrying more than 100 people derailed near the Utah-Colorado line after running into a pickup- sized boulder, authorities said Wednesday. Six people were injured, none seriously. The California Zephyr, en route from Chicago to suburban Oakland, Calif., struck the 12-foot-by-12-foot boulder late...
- Research articles 2005-01-12
- Commuter train collides with truck
- FREMONT -- A 37-year-old Newark man was in critical condition Tuesday after his pickup truck was broadsided by a five-car commuter train. Michael Kelm, an employee of Dun-Rite Excavating in Newark, was flown by helicopter to Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto with possible life-threatening injuries, said Fremont...
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- Newark man's pickup struck by train
- FREMONT -- A 37-year-old Newark man was in critical condition Tuesday after his pickup truck was broadsided by a five-car commuter train. Michael Kelm, an employee of Dun-Rite Excavating in Newark, was flown by helicopter to Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto with possible life-threatening injuries, Fremont police...
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- Seniors Board Rx Express to Canada to Buy Cheaper Prescription Drugs; Bush & Kerry Urged to Support Rx Bulk Purchasing
- MIAMI, Oct. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Monday morning, the Rx Express - a chartered train taking 25 seniors and other patients from throughout the East Coast to Canada to buy lower cost prescription drugs - departed Miami, Florida for Toronto. Prescription drugs are available in Canada at 30-60 percent...
- Research articles 2004-10-11
- California consumer group to take seniors to Canada to buy prescription drugs.
- By Jean P. Fisher, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 18--Want low-cost prescription drugs and a free trip to Canada to buy them? A California consumer group will make it happen for a handful of lucky senior...
- Research articles 2004-09-18
- 9-car derailment kills 1, hurts dozens
- An Amtrak train derailed Tuesday night in Mississippi, killing at least one person and injuring more than 60 others, authorities said. About 100 rescue workers freed dozens of passengers who had been trapped in the wreckage, said Amy Carruth, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. All of...
- Research articles 2004-04-07
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