Home
All|
Business |
Technology |
Environment |
Health & Fitness |
Lifestyle |
Entertainment |
Travel |
Politics & Society |
Sports |
RSS
The brakeman on the freight train in a deadly collision near Los Angeles is suing the other railroad and the companies that provide its engineers.
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
1
Stars 
(0)
AP, Kansas City
The trial has begun in Missouri for a man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.
made popular 8 min ago
AP, Atlanta
Georgia’s top court ruled in favor of a transgender politician who was slapped with a lawsuit by two political opponents who claimed she misled voters by running...
made popular 10 min ago
AP, New York
Oil prices sunk below $90 a barrel Monday for the first time in eight months, a key price support level, on expectations that a widening financial maelstrom will...
made popular 11 min ago
AP, Montgomery
In an Oct. 3 story about the collision of an 18-wheeler and a prison van, The Associated Press, relying on information from the department of corrections, reported...
made popular 15 min ago
AP, New York
Michael Lohan isn’t the type to back down from a fight.
made popular 17 min ago
AP, Bismarck
Pigeons scattered and several hundred people watched Monday when a 450-foot section of a historic Missouri River bridge was blown up to make way for a new span.
made popular 29 min ago
AP, Washington
An advocacy group ranks California, Connecticut and Oregon at the top of a list of states improving energy efficiency to respond to high prices, energy security and...
made popular 31 min ago
AP, Atlanta
Georgia’s top court has ruled in favor of a transgender politician sued by two political opponents who claimed she misled voters by running as a female.
made popular 38 min ago
AP, Fort Bragg
A military judge has refused to dismiss charges against a soldier from New York who is accused of killing two Army officers by detonating a bomb in Iraq.
made popular 43 min ago
AP, New York
EBay Inc., which still reaps big profits but has been struggling to attract new users, said Monday it will cut its work force by 10 percent _ about 1,600 jobs _ in an...
made popular 50 min ago
AP, Washington
The Bush administration, pledging to move quickly and with force, has released details on how financial firms will be selected to manage the largest government bailout...
made popular 52 min ago
AP, Miami
Prosecutors say they will retry a man accused of hijacking the charter boat “Joe Cool” and killing four people on board last year.
made popular 58 min ago
AP, Grand Rapids
The president of Davenport University has pleaded guilty to a first-time drunken-driving charge and refusing to take a breath test during his arrest.
made popular 1 hr. ago
AP, Washington
Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress...
made popular 1 hr. ago
AP, Indianapolis
Eli Lilly & Co. has agreed to spend more than $6 billion to fortify its cancer treatment portfolio by acquiring the biotechnology firm ImClone Systems Inc. in a...
made popular 1 hr. ago
AP, San Antonio
President Bush says the $700 billion plan to save the teetering U.S. economy will take some time to work.
made popular 1 hr. ago
AP, Williams
The California Highway Patrol says it believes the driver of a casino-bound charter bus that crashed and killed eight people was driving under the influence and...
made popular 1 hr. ago
AP, Washington
Sen. Ted Stevens and wealthy businessman Bill Allen had several phone conversations in 2006 in which they fretted over being the target of an FBI investigation,...
made popular 1 hr. ago
AP, New York
The jammed credit markets barely budged Monday as European governments scrambled to prop up their failing banks and investors waited for details on how, exactly, the...
made popular 1 hr. ago
AP, Washington
The Federal Reserve will provide as much as $900 billion in cash loans to squeezed banks in an urgent effort Monday to break through a dangerous credit clog that...
made popular 1 hr. ago
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
AP, Los Angeles
Federal railroad regulators have issued an emergency order prohibiting the use of personal electronic devices by rail workers operating trains and performing other key...
made popular Oct 2 2008
A commuter train engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into freight train in Southern California last month,...
made popular Oct 2 2008
AP, Los Angeles
A Southern California transit official says a commuter train engineer has been suspended for sending a text message around the time of a deadly collision involving...
made popular Oct 2 2008
AP, Los Angeles
A Metrolink engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into a freight train last month, killing 25 people, federal...
made popular Oct 1 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Federal investigators say the engineer of a commuter train sent a text message just seconds before a deadly collision last month in Los Angeles.
made popular Oct 1 2008
AP, Los Angeles
In the first public comments from the family of the commuter-train engineer killed in a crash that claimed 25 lives in all, the man’s brother said investigators...
made popular Oct 1 2008
AP, Los Angeles
The brakeman on the freight train in a deadly collision near Los Angeles is suing the other railroad and the companies that provide its engineers.
made popular Sep 27 2008
AP, Los Angeles
The brakeman on the freight train in a deadly collision near Los Angeles is suing the other railroad and the companies that provide its engineers.
made popular Sep 27 2008
AP, Washington
House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal on a major railroad safety reform bill that will require new technology to prevent crashes and limit hours engineers...
made popular Sep 24 2008
AP, Los Angeles
After a fatal commuter train collision, Congress is hurrying to pass new laws that would limit hours engineers work, mandate technology to stop trains on a collision...
made popular Sep 23 2008
AP, Los Angeles
It was shaping up as a perfect afternoon when Kipp Landis climbed aboard the doomed Metrolink 111 train at Union Station.
made popular Sep 20 2008
AP, Los Angeles
California regulators reacting to the deadly wreck of a commuter train issued an emergency order Thursday banning train operators from using cell phones on duty.
made popular Sep 18 2008
AP, Los Angeles
They stand within feet of speeding locomotives, climb signal poles to photograph passing trains and try to befriend conductors and engineers.
made popular Sep 18 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Screams of anguish reverberated across the phone line _ the only clue dispatchers needed to gauge the magnitude of the tragedy.
made popular Sep 18 2008
AP, Los Angeles
A head-on collision that left 25 people dead has brought new scrutiny to the safety of Southern California’s regional rail service _ a system that has logged more...
made popular Sep 17 2008
AP, Los Angeles
The engineer of a commuter train ran through a red light and never hit his brakes in the final moments before last week’s fatal collision with an oncoming freight...
made popular Sep 17 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Investigators say the commuter train engineer in Friday’s deadly rail collision in Los Angeles did not hit the brakes before crashing into a freight train.
made popular Sep 17 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Around his neighborhood, Metrolink engineer Robert Sanchez was considered a recluse with four miniature greyhounds and a poorly kept yard. But among young train fans,...
made popular Sep 16 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Federal investigators say a signal light at the site of a deadly train collision in Los Angeles worked normally and there were no obstructions that would have prevented...
made popular Sep 16 2008
Related Tags
Angeles Asia Coast Guard Europe Federal Global los angeles Metrolink Mississippi Mississippi River Near New Orleans North America Pictorial plane River train United States Washington World Images
Los Angeles:
Dr. Marc Eckstein, medical director for the Los Angeles Fire Department, poses with his car at City Hall East in Los Angeles Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. Eckstein was pulling up to his San Fernando Valley home when he heard about the Metrolink crash on the...
