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2 die as US passenger-freight trains collide
Associated Press, Published on 05/02/2018
» CAYCE, South Carolina: An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train parked on a side track in South Carolina early Sunday, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said.
Police: Canadian billionaire, wife apparently murdered
Associated Press, Published on 27/01/2018
» TORONTO: Police said Friday they believe Canadian drug-company billionaire businessman Barry Sherman and his wife were both murdered.
Thai family a focus at vigil for mudslides victims
Associated Press, Published on 15/01/2018
» MONTECITO, California: Thousands of people gathered Sunday night at a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to the 20 people, including a Thai man, his son and his father-in-law, who were killed when mudslides ravaged a Southern California community.
Hawaii panics over false North Korean missile alert
Associated Press, Published on 15/01/2018
» HONOLULU: The second recent blunder in Hawaii's planning for a possible North Korean nuclear attack left islanders shaken after an emergency alert warning of an imminent strike sounded on hundreds of thousands of cellphones.
GM says it's mass-producing cars without steering wheels
Associated Press, Published on 12/01/2018
» DETROIT: General Motors says it is making the first mass-production autonomous car without a steering wheel or pedals.
17 dead in California mudslides, search continues
Associated Press, Published on 12/01/2018
» MONTECITO, California: Hundreds of rescue workers slogged through knee-deep ooze and used long poles to probe for bodies Thursday as the search dragged on for victims of the mudslides that slammed this wealthy coastal town. Seventeen people were confirmed dead and eight others were missing.
US immigration raids target 7-Eleven managers
Associated Press, Published on 11/01/2018
» LOS ANGELES: US immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump's presidency.
Central figure in church abuse scandal dies
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2017
» VATICAN CITY: Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86.
Official: Train brake automatically activated in fatal wreck
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2017
» DUPONT, Washington: Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official said Tuesday.
Commuters confront carnage in derailed US train
Associated Press, Published on 19/12/2017
» DUPONT, Washington: Daniel Konzelman was one of thousands of commuters barrelling along a highway outside Seattle on Monday morning when the emergency response training he learned as an Eagle Scout kicked in.