Family Desperate For Information About Baltimore Man They Say Was On Derailed Train
Family members of 45-year-old Robert say he boarded the Amtrak train in Baltimore for a business trip to New York.
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Family members of 45-year-old Robert say he boarded the Amtrak train in Baltimore for a business trip to New York.
More than 200 people rallied at 63rd and Osage to mark the 30th anniversary of the MOVE disaster that killed 11 people and destroyed 62 homes in West Philadelphia.
An exterminator has been convicted of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of a Philadelphia pediatrician, a slaying authorities said happened after she questioned his work.
An analysis by The Associated Press of surveillance video just before the deadly crash of an Amtrak train indicates it was traveling about 107 miles per hour as it approached a curve where the speed limit was only 50 miles per hour.
"The energy intensity of this -- I mean, trains jackknifed -- something incredible, almost like a big bang, occurred there," notes Dr. Joseph Martin, a professor of civil engineering at Drexel University.
Philadelphia police officials say the engineer of the Amtrak train that crashed, killing seven people and injuring more than 200, declined to provide a statement to investigators.
Some travelers just outside 30th Street Station got creative, and some strangers became friends.
The Red Cross says it is assisting 10 displaced families.
An Associated Press video software architect is among those killed in the Philadelphia Amtrak train derailment.
A midshipman was one of those killed in the Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia, the Naval Academy announced Wednesday.
Dom discussed the Amtrak derailment tragedy in Port Richmond, Philadelphia police shooting a man who hit 4 officers with his car, President Obama speaking at Georgetown University on poverty in the United States. At 9:05, Congressman Patrick Murphy, a passenger on the train, joined to discuss the derailment. At 10, Dr. Charles Krauthammer joined to discuss his book "Things that Matter."
More than a dozen Red Cross volunteers were on hand to help frazzled survivors of the train wreck as they trickled in last night and this morning.
Hundreds of emergency crews responded to the scene of a deadly train derailment in Philadelphia Tuesday night.
President Barack Obama has released the following statement regarding the Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia that left six dead and hundreds others injured:
Sandler's also pretty sure, with all this time on his hands, Letterman will be peeing in Jay Leno's coffee cup.
