A scooter rider died when she went around lowered crossing gates and struck a passing Brightline train. It's the latest in a long string of deaths involving the Florida-based higher-speed rail service. The Broward Sheriff’s Office said Monday that the woman went around the gates in Pompano Beach and hit the train on Saturday. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name and age were not released. The woman was the 63rd person known to have died in a collision with a Brightline train since it began operations in mid-2017. An Associated Press investigation shows Brightline has the worst per-mile death rate in the country.
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The commander of the main defending force at the Azovstal steel mill in the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol says Russian troops have broken into the territory of the mill. The Russian government, meanwhile, pledged to facilitate humanitarian corridors from Thursday through Saturday to enable more evacuations. In a video posted Wednesday, Denis Prokopenko, commander of the Ukrainian Azov regiment, said the incursions had continued a second day “and there are heavy, bloody battles.” Azovstal remains one of the biggest hubs of Ukrainian military resistance and has been subjected to massive Russian aerial bombardments and shelling. Russian State TV showed smoke rising over Azovstal.
Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees are camping out in Mexico City and waiting for the U.S. government to allow them into the country. About 500 evacuees were waiting Tuesday in large tents under a searing sun on a dusty field on the east side of Mexico’s sprawling capital. The camp has been open only a week and from 50 to 100 people are arriving every day. Some refugees have already been to the U.S. border in Tijuana where they were told they would no longer be admitted. Others arrived at airports in Mexico City or Cancun. The U.S. government has said it would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
A retired New York City police officer charged with assaulting a police officer during the U.S. Capitol riot has testified that he was trying to defend himself after the officer punched him in the face. Thomas Webster began testifying on Thursday, the third day of his federal trial. He said it felt like he was hit with a hammer or a freight train when Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face. Rathbun testified on Wednesday that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster. The trial is scheduled to resume on Friday with more testimony by Webster.
Russia has unleashed a string of attacks against rail and fuel facilities deep inside Ukraine in an apparent attempt to thwart Ukrainian efforts to marshal supplies. The U.S., meanwhile, is moving to rush more weaponry to Ukraine and says the Western allies’ assistance is making a difference in the 2-month-old war. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia is failing in its war aims, and Ukraine is succeeding. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. wants to help Ukraine remain independent and also see Russia "weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s offensive to take control of eastern Ukraine is in full swing. “Now we can already state that the Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbas, for which they have been preparing for a long time,” he announced Monday in a video address. He said a “significant part of the entire Russian army is now concentrated on this offensive.” He vowed: “No matter how many Russian troops are driven there, we will fight. We will defend ourselves. We will do it every day.”
Railroads are warning investors that freight shipments will continue to fall this year. CSX and Union Pacific both reported a slowdown in freight hauling during the second quarter of 2021.
OMAHA — An appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's decision to drop a proposal to require freight trains to have at least two cr…
Police interviewed witnesses and collected evidence at the scene and have said no foul play is suspected in the man's death.
A passenger got out upon seeing the train coming, but the driver stayed in an effort to get the car off the tracks.
Labor groups argue that conductors provide a crucial safety backup in the cab as a second set of eyes.
GARRISON — Authorities say five people were injured when a vehicle ran into a train in eastern Nebraska's Butler County.
STERLING — Authorities say a 57-year-old man died when his vehicle was hit by a train at a crossing in Johnson County.
McCOOK — Authorities in southwestern Nebraska say a married couple were killed when their car was hit by a train at a railroad crossing east o…
NEBRASKA CITY — A derailment in Southeast Nebraska left one rail car half submerged in water and two others on a creek bank.
CRETE — Authorities say a woman was flown to a Lincoln hospital after being struck by a train locomotive in Crete.
KEARNEY — Police say a man was killed when a train struck his van in central Kearney.
SCOTTSBLUFF — Scottsbluff police say a train struck and killed a man walking along railroad tracks.
OSMOND — Authorities say three students were injured when a semitrailer ran into the rear of a school bus in northeast Nebraska.
NORTH PLATTE — Authorities say a 42-year-old man died after an incident at Union Pacific's railroad yard in North Platte.
OMAHA — BNSF Railway acknowledged Friday that flooding played a role in a derailment that loosed thousands of gallons of oil into northwest Io…
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Authorities say a Nebraska man died when a train moved as he was crawling underneath it in northwest Iowa.
HASTINGS — Authorities say a driver died after his pickup collided with a train in south-central Nebraska.
OMAHA — Authorities say one person was injured in a car collision that left one in the path of a train in northwest Omaha.
POTTER — Authorities say a woman died after her vehicle was struck by a train at a crossing in the Nebraska Panhandle.