Rail worker killed in Philly on third day of strike
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Philadelphia transit officials say a rail worker has been struck and killed by a regional train, snarling commutes into the city already complicated by a transit strike. The accident comes as the transit system enters the third da...
 0.8K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 461.0 Bridge closure snarls traffic for second day
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Engineers desperately tried to repair the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as commuters encountered a second day of heavy traffic and crowded trains today after a 5,000-pound piece of steel plummeted onto the span during rush hou...
2.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 694.0 New postmaster works on image
NORTH BEND Carter Clark hates the term going postal. So much so, that he and fellow U.S. Postal Service workers have started using it, in hope of changing its meaning to represent strong, community-oriented customer service. That s what going post...
4.8K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 461.0 NYC attack was set for Sept. 11
DENVER (AP) An Afghan immigrant wanted to carry out a New York City terror attack involving hydrogen peroxide bombs to coincide with the Sept. 11 anniversary before federal authorities foiled the plan, a U.S. prosecutor said Friday. Tim Neff told a...
6.6K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 533.0 New York transit systems warned to watch for terrorists
DENVER An airport shuttle driver under arrest in Colorado may have been planning with others to detonate backpack bombs on New York City trains in a terrorism plot similar to past attacks on London s and Madrid s mass-transit systems, officials sai...
7.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 746.0 Harpist uses music to console the dying
SPRINGFIELD In a white-walled hospital room, pancreatic cancer slowly drained all the life that remained in Carolyn. There was nothing more to do for this 62-year-old woman no oxygen or other life support, just a morphine drip to keep her as comf...
6.6K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 461.0 Investigators look at track censor issues
WASHINGTON (AP) - Commuter rail tracks in the nation's capital are studded with devices that detect passing trains and tell them when to stop or slow down. But those devices on the stretch of track near where nine people were killed in a train crash ...
1.4K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 678.0 DC Metro crash kills 7, hurts 70
WASHINGTON - The subway train that plowed into another stopped train, killing at least seven people and injuring scores of others in the nation's capital, was part of an aging fleet that federal officials had sought to phase out because of safety con...
4.1K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 911.0 Mother, husband defend crash co-pilot against fatigue claims
WASHINGTON (AP) - The mother and husband of the co-pilot of the commuter plane that crashed as it approached a Buffalo airport defended her today against suggestions she was an unqualified pilot who was tired, sick and distracted when the deadly acci...
2.4K - May. 15, 2009; scored 461.0 Two dead at Michigan college
DEARBORN, Mich. - Two students were killed Friday in an apparent murder-suicide that prompted a lockdown at a community college west of Detroit, police said. The bodies of 28-year-old man and 20 year-old woman were discovered in a room at a Henry For...
2.0K - Apr. 11, 2009; scored 357.0 Economizing exercise
NEW YORK Don t worry if you are too frugal to spend 10 bucks on a fitness DVD. You don t have to. Here are some tech-savvy ways that you can get a fun workout without spending a lot of money or going to the store. FitTv : In addition to on-air prog...
7.5K - Mar. 16, 2009; scored 461.0 Violations before LA crash stir rail safety debate
LOS ANGELES (AP) The human error detailed in last week s hearings on the 2008 Metrolink commuter train disaster that killed 25 people has stirred debate over what the rail industry can do to ensure passenger safety for at least six more years until...
2.2K - Mar. 9, 2009; scored 875.0 Snow pounds East Coast
NEW YORK A massive late winter snowstorm pummeled the Northeast today, grounding hundreds of flights, causing spin-outs, delaying trains and buses and closing school for thousands of children from South Carolina to New Hampshire. A day earlier, th...
6.5K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 461.0 Biden replaces Cheney
WASHINGTON (AP) Joe Biden, whose foreign policy expertise, Washington savvy and personal style earned him Barack Obama s trust and faith, was sworn in today as the 47th vice president of the United States. With the world watching, Biden raised his ...
3.4K - Jan. 20, 2009; scored 357.0 Investigation begins in plane's Hudson River splash landing
NEW YORK Investigators brought in a giant crane and a barge today to help pull a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson River, and survivors among the 155 people aboard recounted tales of horror and hailed the pilot as a hero who delivered them from c...
7.0K - Jan. 16, 2009; scored 357.0 Calif. trains collide; no serious injuries
RIALTO, Calif. A Metrolink commuter train sideswiped a freight train Thursday, causing no serious injuries but bringing back still-vivid memories of a deadly train wreck in the region just two months ago. The commuter train, carrying 15 passengers...
2.9K - Nov. 21, 2008; scored 1000.0 Legislation could ease pollution
In response to The World Newspaper's article, Two greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists (Oct. 26), I agree that we need to take steps to decrease the amount of methane and nitrogen triflouride in our environment. However, as stated in the a...
1.7K - Nov. 13, 2008; scored 461.0 | 
