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Bus carrying pilgrims overturns in SW Pakistan, killing 20
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A speeding bus carrying pilgrims overturned on a highway and fell into a ravine in a remote area in southwestern Pakistan before dawn on Friday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 50 others, police and officials said. The accident happened...
Police: Teen hit by train, killed
APEX, N.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old woman was killed when she was hit by an Amtrak train while walking along the tracks, authorities said. Officers responding to an emergency call around 10 p.m. Tuesday found the woman from the Garner area dead, Apex police said in a news...
Official: Death toll rises to 65 in Pakistan train collision
GHOTKI, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from a horrific collision of two trains in southern Pakistan rose to 65 on Tuesday after rescuers pulled 15 more bodies from crumpled cars a day after the crash, government officials said. The collision took place on a dilapidated...
Assaults on Los Angeles commuter trains recorded on video
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities are investigating two assaults on Los Angeles commuter trains that were recorded on video and posted online. One of the video clips on Instagram showed a boy inside the Metro train, raising his arm and striking the back of a passenger’s...
Train barrels into another in Pakistan, killing at least 51
GHOTKI, Pakistan (AP) — An express train barreled into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 51 people and setting off a desperate effort to search the crumpled cars for survivors and the dead, authorities said. More than 100 other...
The Pompidou, Paris' temple of modern art, plans NJ branch
The Statue of Liberty could be getting company from her native France. Paris' acclaimed Pompidou Center announced plans Friday to open a satellite museum in what is now a gutted industrial building in New Jersey's Jersey City, not far from where Lady Liberty stands in New...
Train strikes, kills 9 workers on track in northwest China
BEIJING (AP) — A cross-country passenger train hit and killed nine rail construction workers on its track in northwest China early Friday, state media said. The victims were among more than 50 workers repairing a closed section of track, state broadcaster CCTV said on...
FBI agent charged in off-duty shooting of man on subway
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An FBI agent has been charged with attempted murder in the off-duty shooting of another man on a Metro subway train last year in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., according to court records unsealed Tuesday. During a hearing, Montgomery County...
Fire destroys historic Mississippi train depot and museum
McCOMB, Miss. (AP) — A massive fire wrecked a Mississippi city's train depot and museum, a beloved restored landmark that dates back to McComb's founding as a railroad town. No cause has been immediately determined for the fire that broke out Sunday in the north end of...
Woo-hoo or woo-woo? Western Maryland Scenic Railroad returns
CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) — The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad has resumed operations for the first time since the pandemic forced a shutdown in March 2020. The Cumberland-Times-News reports that the railroad returned to the tracks Saturday with its standard round trip...
