DEADLY SOUTH CAROLINA TRAIN CRASH COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED, INVESTIGATORS SAY

And on Dec. 18, an Amtrak train ran off the rails along a curve during its inaugural run near Tacoma, Wash., killing three people and injuring dozens... READ MORE›

A LIST OF RECENT AMTRAK DERAILMENTS, CRASHES

An Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed in southwest Kansas, sending five cars off the tracks and injuring at least 32 people... READ MORE›

AMTRAK FACING QUESTIONS AFTER SECOND DEADLY COLLISION IN A WEEK

Officials said the accident happened at around 2.45am close to Columbia, South Carolina, as the passenger train made its way from New York to Miami... READ MORE›

AT LEAST TWO KILLED IN SOUTH CAROLINA TRAIN COLLISION

At least two killed in South Carolina train collision police... READ MORE›

INDIGENOUS WOMEN OCCUPY WASHINGTON STATE CAPITOL LAWN

Neither the Washington state police nor Inslee's office were immediately available for comment... READ MORE›

MANGLED LOCOMOTIVE, LAST PIECE OF AMTRAK TRAIN WRECKAGE, REMOVED FROM WASHINGTON FREEWAY

The affected southbound stretch of Interstate 5, which runs from the Canadian border to Mexico, will remain closed indefinitely, the Washington State Department of Transportation has said... READ MORE›

WASHINGTON OFFICIALS COMMITTED TO BYPASS, SITE OF TRAIN DERAILMENT

Washington officials remain committed to bypass, site of deadly train derailment... READ MORE›

IN TACOMA ANGRY INVENTOR HAS SPECIAL GIFT FOR PACKAGE THIEVES REVENGE

The more time and money Jaireme Barrow spent to keep people from swiping packages off his front porch, the angrier he got... READ MORE›

TWO TRAIN BUFFS AMONG THOSE KILLED IN WASHINGTON DERAILMENT

Amtrak hasn't identified the engineer, who survived with a bloody head injury and both eyes swollen shut, according to radio chatter following the crash... READ MORE›

FATAL WASHINGTON TRAIN WAS ON TRACK WITHOUT CRUCIAL SAFETY SYSTEM

Jim Hamre was a board member of the Rail Passengers Association and a veteran of the Washington State Department of Transportation... READ MORE›

AT LEAST SIX KILLED AS AMTRAK TRAIN PLUNGES OFF OVERPASS ONTO FREEWAY NEAR TACOMA ON INAUGURAL RUN ON HIGH-SPEED SECTION

The Amtrak schedule called for the train to leave Seattle around 6 a.m... READ MORE›

PASSENGER TRAIN ON NEW ROUTE DERAILS IN WASHINGTON STATE, KILLING AT L

Thirteen of the train's 14 cars jumped the tracks near the town of DuPont, Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Brooke Bova said... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 'SIX PEOPLE KILLED' AFTER TRAIN PLUNGES ONTO US

At least six people have been killed after a train derailed in the US state of Washington, near Seattle... READ MORE›

'PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING': AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILS OVER ROAD BRIDGE IN WASHINGTON STATE

Amtrak train derails over highway bridge in Washington state... READ MORE›

AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILED ON NEW, FASTER ROUTE IN WASHINGTON THAT DREW CONCERN

The Amtrak Cascades service that runs from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon, is jointly owned by the Washington and Oregon transportation departments... READ MORE›

AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILS ON BRIDGE OVER WASHINGTON STATE HIGHWAY KILLING 'MULTIPLE' PEOPLE

The Amtrak train carriage plummeted onto the Interstate 5 highway south of Seattle before 8am local time on Monday... READ MORE›

AMTRAK DERAILMENT: TRAIN DERAILS ON HIGHWAY BRIDGE IN WASHINGTON STATE, SEVERAL KILLED

We're praying for everyone on board the train, and ask everyone to hold them in your thoughts, Washington Governor Jay Inslee wrote in a Twitter message... READ MORE›

AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILMENT SHUTS DOWN INTERSTATE 5 IN WASHINGTON STATE

Derailed Amtrak passenger train was heading south bound, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said in a tweet... READ MORE›

'INJURIES AND CASUALTIES' AS AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILS ONTO HIGHWAY NEAR SEATTLE

An Amtrak train derailed on a bridge over a highway in Pierce County, Wash., on Monday prompting a major emergency response from local authorities... READ MORE›

A SOLDIER'S 1950S LOVE STORY BRINGS COMFORT, ANSWERS

Ashley Robertson and Rodriguez each said that Bob Robertson and Lynne Culver shared two lifelong loves Oregon and music... READ MORE›

ALL THAT GLITTER? IT'S NOT GOOD, CRITICS SAY

Mason said that while plastic glitter is popular around the holidays, it's not necessary... READ MORE›

TWO STUDENTS SHOT, WOUNDED NEAR WASHINGTON STATE HIGH SCHOOL

Washington state authorities say two male students have been shot near a high school in the small city of Graham near Tacoma... READ MORE›

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N KOREA DETAINEES ARRIVE BACK IN US

Related Stories Two Americans who were released from detention in North Korea, Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae, have arrived back in the US... READ MORE›

MPS TO INVESTIGATE HSBC TAX SCANDAL

Related Stories The UK's Treasury Committee is to examine allegations that HSBC's Swiss private bank helped clients evade tax... READ MORE›

XIAOMI TO OPEN ONLINE US STORE

06 45 HSBC tax scandal BBC Radio 4 The Bank of England's Sir Jon Cunliffe was asked about HSBC on Today... READ MORE›

'IT'S INCREDIBLE': WATCH THIS SKYDIVER FREEFALL WITHOUT A PARACHUTE

Luke Aikins, a 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps, made history Saturday when he became the first person to survive a leap without a parachute... READ MORE›

MLK DAY WHY ON MONDAY AND WHAT WAS STEVIE WONDERS ROLE

Heres a rundown of how Martin Luther King, Jr. Day came to be a federal holiday... READ MORE›

MUSK'S PLANT MAKEOVER EVEN MORE OF A LONG SHOT AS MODEL 3 LAGS

The company has said it designed Model 3 to be simpler to make than its stablemates in Tesla's lineup... READ MORE›

JOY AS N KOREA US PRISONERS RETURN

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he appreciated North Korea's decision to release the men and was relieved they were returning home... READ MORE›

ADOPTED 37 YEARS AGO AND BROUGHT TO U.S., SOUTH KOREAN MAN DETAINED IN TACOMA FOR DEPORTATION

Adam Crasper remains confined in an immigration detention center in Tacoma, pending his deportation... READ MORE›

WEIGHTY AGENDA AND BUSY SCHEDULE FOR XIS US VISIT

This is not Mr. Xi's first visit to the United States, nor his first meeting with Mr. Obama... READ MORE›

'THIS WEBSITE WILL STILL BE HERE'

Fox's website depicts his ex-wife as a drug-addicted child abuser... READ MORE›

Marijuana Tourists Are More Flocking to Washington and Colorado?... READ MORE›

SIKH COALITION WANTS CASE OF MAN SHOT IN ARM INVESTIGATED AS HATE CRIME

The Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights group, asked local and federal authorities to investigate the shooting in suburban Seattle as a hate crime... READ MORE›

LEADING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN SAYS TRUMP, CRUZ WRONG ON IMMIGRATION

Yet Castleberry contends there's nothing inherently anti-immigrant about conservatism, and certainly not about evangelicalism... READ MORE›

ISOLATION TO INCLUSION: THE EVOLUTION OF THE KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

SULJA WARNICK, like Wilson, one of KWA's founding members, grew up in Daegu, South Korea, during wartime... READ MORE›

'DEPORT EL CHAPO': WILL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN TRUMP CRIMINAL CASES?

In early December, he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE officers and charged with illegal re-entry... READ MORE›

THIS IS HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS CATCHING PEOPLE WHO USE CHILD PORN SITES

He likened the government's warrant to a general warrant, referring to the British practice during the Colonial era of allowing government searches without any individualized suspicion... READ MORE›

CHINA'S PRESIDENT TO SEEK BETTER U.S. TIES DURING VISIT WITH OBAMA

BEIJING -- When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives Tuesday on his first state visit to the USA, he will struggle with two seemingly contradictory objectives... READ MORE›

SKYDIVER FIRST PERSON TO JUMP 25,000 FEET WITHOUT PARACHUTE

LOS ANGELES--A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps made history when he became the first person to survive a leap without a parachute... READ MORE›

SEVEN MARINERS HEADED FOR FREE AGENCY FOLLOWING THE WORLD SERIES

The Mariners have seven players from their active roster that are now free agents... READ MORE›

TRUMP PLAN TO LOCK UP MORE IMMIGRANTS COULD PROFIT TACOMA DETENTION CENTER

He called it an indiscriminate quota that requires the government and companies such as GEO to detain immigrants even if they pose no threat... READ MORE›

TRUMP PRAISES SANDERS BUT MAY STRUGGLE TO WIN OVER HIS VOTERS

One risk for Clinton is Sanders voters who may sit out the election or choose a third-party candidate if their favorite is not on the ballot... READ MORE›

COURTS AFFIRM FBI USE OF MASS-HACKING TOOL TO FIND CHILD-PORN SUSPECTS

The NIT warrant in his case was issued in the Eastern District of Virginia... READ MORE›

HE'S A SKYDIVER WORKING WITH A NET -- BUT NO PARACHUTE

He told them Aikins was arguably the only guy not only good enough but also smart enough and careful enough to survive this... READ MORE›

A MARYLAND COURT IS THE FIRST TO REQUIRE A WARRANT FOR COVERT CELLPHONE TRACKING

State and Anne Arundel and Baltimore county police have also confirmed use of the technology... READ MORE›

WESTERN WILDFIRES ON SCORCHED-EARTH BLITZ BEATING EFFORTS TO CONTAIN THEM HELP SOUGHT

Nationally the system is pretty tapped said Rob Allen the deputy incident commander for the fires around the Cascade Mountain resort town of Chelan Washington... READ MORE›

TOYOTA'S 'MADE IN AMERICA' STRATEGY ISN'T ENOUGH TO SHIELD IT FROM TRUMP

Shortly after president met Tuesday with the U.S. auto CEOs, Toyota said it would add 400 jobs and spend 600 million retooling and updating an Indiana plant... READ MORE›

'DREAMER' IMMIGRANT IN OREGON DETAINED BY US AUTHORITIES

Francisco J. Rodriguez Dominguez was picked up at his home by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, immigration lawyer Stephen Manning said... READ MORE›

KOREAN ADOPTEE'S PLIGHT ILLUSTRATES DEPORTATION RISK FACED BY 35,000 OTHERS IN U.S.

Crapser remains confined in an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, pending his deportation... READ MORE›

HELPERS FROM DOWN UNDER JOIN MILITARY ASSETS TO FIGHT WASHINGTON'S RECORD WILDFIRE

As Washington state's wildfires burned into the record books Monday, calls for help were answered from far and near. Fire managers from New Zealand and Aus... READ MORE›

CLEVELAND INDIANS BEAT CHICAGO CUBS 6-0 IN WORLD SERIES OPENER

Cleveland manager Terry Francona is 9-0 in the World Series, including sweeps by his Boston teams in 2004 and '07... READ MORE›