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Union Pacific adjusting crossing where vets died

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 21st

By DANNY ROBBINSAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) - Union Pacific is adjusting the timing of the West Texas railroad crossing signal where a collision last month killed four military veterans riding in a parade, a company spokeswoman said Friday. Raquel Espinoza-Williams said the railroad was doing work

Report: NJ train moving slowly when it derailed

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 17th

PAULSBORO, N.J. (AP) - The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday released its preliminary report on a New Jersey train derailment that caused a leak of 180,000 pounds of a hazardous material, but it doesn't say what caused the accident. The report says that readings from a data

How to talk to your kids about Conn. mass shooting

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 15th

By By MICHELLE R. SMITHAssociated Press The killings at a Connecticut elementary school left parents struggling to figure out what to tell their children. President Barack Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, would tell their daughters that they love them and hug them a little tighter. Experts

Feds to probe why alarms failed in W.Va. explosion

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 11th

By By JOHN RABY and VICKI SMITHAssociated Press SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and a large section of an interstate for more than an hour. Investigators

Cleanup continues to site of NJ train derailment

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

PAULSBORO, N.J. (AP) - Workers are continuing to remove debris at the scene of a New Jersey freight train derailment that released hazardous gas into the air. Seven cars on an 84-car train derailed on or near a swivel-style bridge over Mantua Creek in Paulsboro more than a week ago. A tanker car

CDC: Language barrier caused chlorine gas leak

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By KELLY P. KISSELAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn't read the English-language label on a barrel of chemicals inadvertently poured bleach into it

US Reps. expect deeper look at NJ derailment

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated Press CLARKSBORO, N.J. (AP) - Federal regulations require inspections of rail bridges and other infrastructure and reports on accidents, but leave it to freight railroad owners to do the work themselves. After a derailment that released thousands of gallons of a

NJ town's evacuation expanded after derailment

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

By By GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated Press CLARKSBORO, N.J. (AP) - More New Jersey residents were ordered Tuesday to leave their homes because of air contamination from a train derailment last week that leaked a hazardous gas. The evacuation order imposed by officials at 4 p.m. added 100 more homes

Wyo. campus killer 'near genius' at odds with dad

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 3rd

By By MEAD GRUVERAssociated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A man who killed his father in front of a computer science class at a Wyoming community college was a "borderline genius" upset by the belief he had inherited Asperger's Syndrome from his dad, an aunt of the killer said Monday.

NJ bridge had alignment problems before derailment

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 3rd

By By GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated Press PAULSBORO, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey bridge where a train derailed last week, releasing a hazardous chemical into the air, had a series of rail alignment problems leading up to the derailment, the National Transportation Safety Board's top official said