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Taiwanese inventor Peng Yu-Lun has an innovative idea to make train transportation even more efficient: get rid of the stops. No, he\’s not proposing that passengers are thrown on and off of fast-moving trains or that passengers are eliminated from the...
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Brian “Young Gun” Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in Eau Claire,...
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“The Bachelor” is a bachelor no more.
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More lava than usual is spilling from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano into the ocean.
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A popular beach on Long Island was evacuated at the height of a holiday weekend after stray, unexploded fireworks washed ashore the day after a July Fourth show, state...
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El Paso police arrested a man on a charge of attempted murder Saturday after he was caught fleeing the scene of a stabbing in his motorized wheelchair.
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The three American hostages rescued by Colombia’s military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to “return home to...
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Eric Lieber, whose television production credits include the long-running dating show “Love Connection,” has died. He was 71.
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A 91-year-old woman who had crawled under her car to look for her keys ended up stuck beneath an axle for two days until her mail carrier noticed letters piling up,...
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A Wisconsin man who posted a video online showing him and his father shocking each other with a stolen stun gun has been sent to prison.
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A man flying across Oregon in a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons has reached his destination.
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A popular Long Island beach has been evacuated on a holiday weekend because unexploded fireworks washed up on shore.
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The American Civil Liberties Union said Saturday that it plans to investigate the actions of federal law enforcers who arrested five Rainbow Family members in western...
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The NAACP’s Cincinnati chapter sagged to a low point a few years ago, its membership the smallest it had been in decades. Some outside the chapter even questioned...
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A wildfire threatening hundreds of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain...
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Police in central Pennsylvania say a gospel singer was critically injured in a crash that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver.
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The Emmy-winning daughter of the late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin is getting her own doll.
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Republican John McCain, who has made support for President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from...
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FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines,...
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A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people,...
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A Detroit man whose driver’s license has been suspended 22 times has been sentenced to 13 to 20 years in prison in what authorities describe as an extreme case of...
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A commuter train has collided with a freight train in southeast Belgium, injuring 30 passengers.
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Police say three people were killed when a train struck their van in southern Germany.
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A man who claimed he was attempting suicide when he triggered a 2005 rail disaster was convicted Thursday of 11 counts of first-degree murder and could face the death...
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A Los Angeles jury has convicted a man of 11 counts of first-degree murder for causing a 2005 commuter train derailment.
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The fate of a man accused of causing a train derailment that killed 11 people and injured about 180 is in the hands of a Los Angeles Superior Court jury.
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Several Kansas City Southern train cars have derailed and three are on fire after colliding with a log truck in northern Louisiana.
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A prosecutor Thursday denounced a man charged with causing a deadly commuter rail accident as a pathological liar who feigned mental illness and falsely claimed to have...
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A train has derailed into a building in the western Pennsylvania city of Johnstown.
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Emergency officials say a passenger train has derailed in Russia’s Far East, injuring 60 people.
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A trolley driver who died in a fatal crash last month wasn’t on her cell phone when her trolley slammed the back of another one, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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A truck driver has been killed in a collision with a train in Walker, La.
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A train has crashed into a car at a vehicle crossing and three people inside the car are dead.
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Plans for a levitating train from Las Vegas to Disneyland can move forward under a transportation bill signed by President Bush on Friday that frees up $45 million for...
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A French judicial official says preliminary manslaughter charges have been filed against a bus driver involved in an accident that killed seven children this week at a...
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Rail companies and urban planners often cite the green credentials of trains
Building energy efficient trains is not cheap and can take time to recoup costs
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A train slammed into a bus carrying schoolchildren at a railroad crossing in the French Alps on Monday, killing seven children and injuring 24 people, regional...
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A train slammed into a bus carrying schoolchildren on a field trip on Monday, killing six of the children and injuring 30 people, regional officials said.
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Police in eastern France say at least five people were killed when a train crashed into a bus carrying schoolchildren.
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AP, Newton
Federal officials say a commuter train was going nearly 30 mph faster than it should have when it crashed into another train in Massachusetts.
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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, rescuers work near a derailed train at the Jintang County, more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast to Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province Sunday, June 8, 2008. One railway...
