13-car train derailment in Pittsfield Township causes road closures
No vehicles were involved in the derailment, and no injuries have been reported, police said.
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No vehicles were involved in the derailment, and no injuries have been reported, police said.
The Lake County Coroner's office confirmed five bodies were recovered from the crash site.
The sheriff's office advises people to avoid the area of Victoria and Main Street in New Haven until further notice.
The crash on Sterns Road at the Norfolk Southern railroad crossing in Erie Township, Michigan, happened on Saturday night, officials say.
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Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to last year's fiery train derailment that affected East Palestine, Ohio.
Images from a local fire company show a train derailed Saturday morning in Lower Saucon Township near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
President Biden visited the Ohio village Friday to discuss how the administration is holding the rail operator accountable a year after the derailment.
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Several train cars derailed in Romulus on Thursday morning. Officials say no one was injured, and there is no danger to the public.
Michigan first responders practiced a large-scale train emergency on Wednesday. The exercise was hosted by Norfolk Southern and involved local and federal emergency responders.
Footage from the accident site showed bodies lined up on tracks and the injured being shifted to hospitals while rescuers desperately looked through the overturned and jumbled metal train compartments.
The driver of the truck was cited for "operating a vehicle without reasonable control" after he went off the side of the road, hit a ditch and pole, and overturned.
BNSF said in a statement that 22 cars derailed with four catching fire, but that no injuries were reported due to the accident.
State officials have reopened the public comment period on the relicensing of the aboveground hazardous waste operations at the Romulus facility that received waste from the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
A Canton resident has filed a lawsuit after Norfolk Southern transported toxic waste into a waste facility in Romulus.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered states to stop blocking contaminated waste from a fiery train derailment in Ohio from being sent to hazardous waste storage sites around the nation.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said 6.8 million gallons of liquid waste and more than 5,400 tons of solid waste have already been transported to designated facilities -- including 1,600 tons in the past 48 hours.
About eight cars derailed and the cause is being investigated, a spokesperson from the railroad said.
Nearby residents were asked to shelter in place. The railway company said that there were no hazardous materials aboard the train.
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The visit "will celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States," Buckingham Palace says.
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians face a harsh reality in Michigan.
Around 19,000 Corewell Health patients have been impacted by a data breach that happened in 2024, the nonprofit said Friday.
A child under the age of 5 is now the latest case of measles in an outbreak being traced in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
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