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6 injured after car crashes through front of Subway sandwich shop in Rhode Island
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) — Six people were taken to Rhode Island hospitals after a car crashed into a Subway sandwich shop on Wednesday. Those injured in the crash that happened shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday included the driver of the car. The others were workers and customers at...
Ohio: Charity settles false claims to help those impacted by train derailment
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of dollars raised by a charity that falsely claimed it would help residents affected by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border earlier this year will be turned over to a food bank serving the area, Ohio's attorney general announced Wednesday. ...
As India grieves train crash that killed 275, relatives try to identify bodies of loved ones
BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) — Families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades filled a hospital in Bhubaneswar city on Monday to try to identify the bodies of relatives, as railway officials recommended a criminal probe of the crash that killed 275 people. ...
Dozens of dangerous rail crossings will be eliminated with $570 million in grants
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With the rail industry relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs, the Biden administration is handing out $570 million in grants to help eliminate many railroad crossings in 32 states. The grants announced Monday will contribute to building bridges or...
'I am haunted by it': Survivors of deadly train crash in India recount trauma
BALASORE, India (AP) — Gura Pallay was watching another train pass by the one he was sitting in when he heard sudden, loud screeching. Before he could make sense of what was happening, he was thrown out of the train. Pallay, 24, landed next to the tracks along with metal wreckage...
Error in signaling system led to train crash that killed 275 people in India, official says
BALASORE, India (AP) — The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday. Authorities worked to clear...
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi calls on US audience to stand up for 'modern India'
NEW YORK (AP) — Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi pressed his criticism of the country’s leadership in a speech Sunday, calling for Indians in the U.S. and back home to stand up for democracy and the Indian constitution. Gandhi, a sharp critic of Indian Prime Minister...
India's deadly train crash renews questions over safety as government pushes railway upgrade
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister had been scheduled to inaugurate an electrical semi-high-speed train equipped with a safety feature — another step in the modernization of an antiquated railway that is the lifeline of the world's most populous nation. Instead on...
India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation's worst rail disasters
BALASORE, India (AP) — Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday. ...
A look at deadly train crashes in India in recent decades
NEW DELHI (AP) — The latest deadly train crash in India happened Friday, when two passenger trains derailed — killing more than 200 people, injuring more than 900 and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said. More than 12 million...
