Lawyers

• Amtrak and BNSF Railway Sued Cimarron Crossing Feeders Over Train Derailment Accident

  Amtrak and BNSF Railway is holding Cimarron Crossing Feeders over the March 14 train derailment accident. The lawsuit stated that the feeder company did not report about a truck accident that happened shortly before the train arrived.

• NTSB Released 2000-page Document of Amtrak Crash Findings

  The NTSB has released a 2000-page document detailing their findings on the Amtrak 188 crash Earlier today, federal investigators released their findings on what could have caused the fatal derailment from last year's Amtrak passenger train.

• U.S. probing possible price-gouging by airlines after rail crash

  The U.S. Transportation Department is investigating possible price gouging by the five biggest U.S. airlines while train service was disabled between New York and Washington following a deadly Amtrak crash in May, it said on Friday.

• Senate Democrats press for Amtrak funding increase

  U.S. Senate Democrats from the Northeast, where the Amtrak rail service is considered essential, vowed on Thursday, in the wake of a deadly train crash, to fight Republican budget cuts for the passenger line, while acknowledging more funding would be hard to win.

• Four passengers sue Amtrak over deadly Philadelphia derailment

  Four passengers on the Amtrak commuter train that derailed in Philadelphia last week filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the U.S. rail service, as operations resumed on the heavily traveled Northeast Corridor.

• Amtrak engineer made no report of object hitting windshield before crash: NTSB

  U.S. federal investigators have found no record that the engineer of the Amtrak commuter train that crashed in Philadelphia last week reported an object hit his locomotive in the minutes before it derailed, a U.S. official said on Sunday.

• Philadelphia train may have been hit by projectile before wreck

  The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia and a separate commuter train in the vicinity may have been hit by projectiles of some kind shortly before the wreck, a U.S. transportation safety official said on Friday, after investigators interviewed members of the Amtrak crew.

• Derailed Amtrak train lacked latest U.S. safety controls

  The commuter rail route where an Amtrak train left the track on Tuesday was not governed by an advanced safety technology meant to prevent high-speed derailments, investigators said on Wednesday.

• Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia, killing at least five

  An Amtrak passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board derailed in north Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing at least five people and injuring scores of others, several of them critically, authorities said.

• More than 150 arrested in California during police killing protests

  More than 150 protesters were arrested in California overnight after shutting down a major freeway in another outbreak of nationwide demonstrations against police use of deadly force on minorities.

• Multiple victims stabbed on train in Michigan, suspect in custody: police

  A suspect was taken into custody by police in Michigan on Friday after multiple victims were stabbed aboard an Amtrak train in the small city of Niles, a police dispatcher said.