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An Amtrak attendant trying to lead passengers from a burning train hit by a truck in the Nevada desert says in a new lawsuit that survivors had to double back past dead bodies in a smoky car and jump out a window because their initial escape route was blocked by a locked baggage car door.
Amtrak is suing a Nevada trucking company for negligence in the hiring of a driver who drove a semi-trailer truck into the side of a passenger train last week in a fiery crash that killed six and injured more than 20.
A judge in Reno, Nev., handling the first lawsuit in a deadly Amtrak crash has issued an order prohibiting the destruction or disposal of any evidence related to last week's fiery collision between a truck and a passenger train.
An Amtrak train attendant filed the first lawsuit over a crash that injured her and killed at least six people in Nevada last week, as more details emerged Tuesday about the driving record of the trucker whose big rig plowed into the double-decker rail cars.
He congratulated the graduating class of 2011, but one but one principal's commencement speech actually offended some in the crowd.
New pictures have come to light of the terrifying moments after a big rig plowed into an Amtrak train headed for Sacramento.
Nevada wildlife commissioners are ready to consider an administrative appeal from a group of conservationists and Lake Tahoe residents who want to block the first legal bear hunt in the state's history.
A Nevada man charged with killing four women whose bodies were found across Northern California between the 1970s and 1990s is asking to represent himself in court.
Stepping away from Washington's contentious fiscal debates, President Barack Obama is making a West Coast trip aimed at building support for his deficit-reduction plans and raising money for his re-election campaign.
Despite strong opposition from wildlife advocates, a state panel unanimously voted Saturday to establish the first bear hunting season in Nevada history.
