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Norfolk Southern’s CEO is offering support for some parts of a bipartisan Senate bill to put tougher safety regulations on railroads.

With a pandemic-era rule expiring this month, people on Medicaid will have to re-qualify to keep their coverage. Language barriers, housing instability and computer literacy could stand in their way.

Federal investigators say a Norfolk Southern train that derailed in Alabama earlier this month lacked required alignment control couplers and a company inspection didn't identify their absence.

A Norfolk Southern train that derailed in Alabama earlier this month lacked required alignment control couplers for two of its locomotives and a company inspection did not identify their absence, federal investigators said Monday. The notation comes in one of three preliminary reports issued Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board about Norfolk Southern train accidents this month as the board investigates the railroad’s safety practices after the fiery February derailment and toxic chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio. In a report released Monday about a March 9 derailment of two locomotives and 37 rail cars in Anniston, Alabama, the safety board said two of the train’s six locomotives were “waybill locomotives,” or towed cars not used for any tractive power.

The 17-year-old suspect from Medina County, Ohio accused of calling in bomb threats to area high schools in January will remain in custody at the Porter County Juvenile Detention Center awaiting a hearing April 24 that will determine whether his case will be waived to adult court.

An Ohio man killed his girlfriend's two children and injured a third in a shooting. The man was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Underdogs have blown up every bracket in the country in what may be the maddest March ever.

Tyson Walker scored 23 points and No. 7 seed Michigan State beat second-seeded Marquette 69-60 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, sending coach Tom Izzo’s squad back to the Sweet 16 for the first time in four years.

Dispatchers said that officers responded shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday to an after-hours club called Tha Plug on the city's south side.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said Friday that states blocking contaminated waste from a toxic train derailment in Ohio was "impermissible."

Not long after the Ohio train derailment, pro-Russian voices on Twitter began spreading anti-U.S. propaganda about the incident.

Kentucky head coach Jogn Calipari told reporters after the Wildcats beat Providence that he had no idea that FDU defeated Purdue, despite the game playing on the jumbotron.

Add Fairleigh Dickinson to the list of giant-killing New Jersey colleges in March Madness.

It’s become a disturbing pattern in March for Purdue.

Six GOP-led states have now pulled out of the Electronic Registration Information Center, despite it being considered one of the best tools states have to detect voter fraud.

The decision adds to the ranks of states exiting as the Electronic Registration Information Center faces criticism from election deniers.

Joey Hauser scored 17 points and No. 7 seed Michigan State clamped down defensively on No. 10 seed Southern California in the second half for a 72-62 win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament’s East Region.

North College Hill City school district in Ohio is switching to a four-day school week to save teachers and students from stress and burnout.

Election officials from states enrolled in a bipartisan effort to ensure accurate voter lists decided Friday against making rule changes that had been pushed by Republicans and fueled by conspiracy theories, prompting more defections by GOP-leaning states.

The stakes will be higher for March Madness this year in some states.

Authorities said a train carrying hazardous materials derailed just north of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, near the border with California. An investigation is ongoing.

Protect Women Ohio (PWO) is fighting a state constitutional amendment that they say would strip rights of parents to consent on abortion or gender-altering surgeries.

State legislators introduced the Ohio Higher Education Enhancement Act on Wednesday, targeting diversity quotas, relationships with Chinese institutions, and left-wing curricula.

Jamarius Burton made a go-ahead jumper with 10 seconds left and Pitt edged Mississippi State 60-59 in a back-and-forth First Four game that featured 21 lead changes — most in the NCAA Tournament in five years.

Isaac Mushila had 15 points and 12 rebounds as Texas A&M-Corpus Christi held off Southeast Missouri State 75-71 to earn the first NCAA Tournament win in program history.

The lawsuit seeks to force the company to pay for groundwater and soil monitoring in the years ahead and economic losses in the area.

"The fallout from this highly preventable accident is going to reverberate throughout Ohio for many years to come," Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office is suing Norfolk Southern over the East Palestine train derailment, he announced during a press conference on Tuesday.

The federal lawsuit also seeks to force the company to pay for groundwater and soil monitoring in the years to come and economic losses in the village of East Palestine and surrounding areas, said Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

Ohio has filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month.

The largest corruption case in Ohio history culminated last week with guilty verdicts for the ex-House Speaker and a lobbyist who was the former head of the Republican Party.

The largest corruption case in Ohio history culminated last week with guilty verdicts for ex-House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges, the former head of the Republican Party. Householder, 63, and Borges, 50, could spend up to 20 years in prison for their racketeering conspiracy convictions. The jury agreed with prosecutors that Householder orchestrated a $60 million bribery scheme, secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp., to secure his power, elect his allies and pass the bailout bill — and that Borges took part in a dirty-tricks campaign to protect the bailout law from referendum.

The US, UK, and Australia are developing new submarines in the Pacific region to counter China's growing military might.

Ohio State University is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider questions about the law known as Title IX in a case stemming from lawsuits over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss.

The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to review a judge’s order that is blocking enforcement of Ohio's so-called heartbeat abortion ban, and to consider whether the clinics that have sued have standing to challenge the law.

Pickaway County, Ohio deputies shot and killed a zebra after it mauled a 72-year-old man's arm on Sunday, nearly ripping it off his body.

While deputies were treating the man, the zebra continued acting irate and charged one deputy's cruiser.

An Ohio hospital is working to figure out how three patients recently tested positive for the presence of Legionella, local media reports. The campus has switched to bottled water.

Elias Gudino allegedly bound and gagged three other men and then shot them in the head. Gudino is being charged with aggravated murder.

The bodies of three men were found shot in Summit County, Ohio after being bound and gagged and a suspect was arrested and charged, police said.

LPGA Hall of Famer Annika Sörenstam and husband Mike McGee created the "Annika Fore East Palestine" campaign to raise funds to aid clean up of a chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio.

Firefighters are often "woefully under-equipped" to handle train accidents that emit hazardous materials. Most of those serious enough to cause evacuations happened near small towns.

Data from the Federal Railroad Administration shows that there an average of three derailments per day in the United States.

A Ohio suspect has been charged with one count of murder after his girlfriend, who was missing for month than a month, was found dead in a landfill.

Plaskett blasted Republicans for bringing Musk’s “public scribes” to the hearing before several exchanges with Jordan on Thursday.

The company said it discovered that a "specific model and series of railcars had loose wheels."

U.S. railroads were warned to take certain cars out of service Thursday after Norfolk Southern discovered loose wheels on a car involved in last weekend's derailment in Ohio. It's not clear that the loose wheels caused the derailment near Springfield last Saturday because the National Transportation Safety Board has just begun investigating that crash — the latest in a string of high-profile derailments that have been grabbing headlines. The Association of American Railroads trade group responded Thursday by issuing an advisory about the suspect cars.

A serval high on cocaine was located in a tree in Cincinnati in January and has since been relocated to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

Larry Householder was convicted in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors called the largest corruption case in state history.

No injuries nor hazardous materials leaked following the 30-car derailment, authorities said.

The Norfolk Southern CEO plans to tell Congress he is "deeply sorry" for the Ohio train derailment. The Senate is launching a series of hearings about railway safety.

At a Senate hearing on Thursday about the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Sen. Bernie Sanders repeatedly asked Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw if he would commit to giving all employees seven days of paid sick leave. Shaw refused to make that commitment.

A Senate hearing Thursday revealed partisan divisions over the Feb. 3 train derailment in Ohio, with some blaming EPA, others blaming corporate greed.

Prosecutors have announced new charges of unlawful conduct against 11 current or former officers in the troubled police department in East Cleveland, one of Ohio's poorest cities. (March 9)

The U.S. saw more than one thousand train derailments last year, but industry leaders say traveling by rail remains one of the safest methods of transportation.

The CEO of Norfolk Southern railroad will likely face pointed questioning over the hazardous train derailment and fire that released toxic fumes last month, as well as his company's safety culture

Norfolk Southern’s CEO is apologizing to Congress and pledging millions of dollars to help East Palestine, Ohio, recover from last month's fiery train derailment.

Prosecutors in Ohio on Wednesday announced charges against 11 current and former officers of the embattled East Cleveland police department.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) stood in front of his new Republican colleagues Tuesday and tried to convince them to support a bill backed by Senate Democrats that would impose a host of new regulations on a powerful rail industry.

The chief executive of one of the nation’s largest railroads is preparing to tell a Senate committee he is “deeply sorry” for the fiery derailment last month on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday it will begin a broad look at Norfolk Southern's safety culture — the first such investigation within the rail industry since 2014.

Another headline-grabbing trail derailment in the span of a month has legislators urging stricter safety regulations for railway workers.

Federal investigators have announced a special investigation into railroad Norfolk Southern.

The train that derailed in Ohio last month was carrying vinyl chloride, used to make PVC plastics — which we need to use less.

Norfolk Southern says it plans to improve the use of detectors along the tracks that are supposed to spot overheating bearings and other problems in the wake of a fiery Ohio derailment a month ago.

An Eaton, Ohio woman pleaded guilty of drowning her grandmother in the kitchen sink after being told the elderly woman needed to be in a costly nursing home.

Norfolk Southern has launched a six-point safety plan to immediately enhance the safety of its operations after the Ohio train derailment that raised concern across the country, officials said.

A Norfolk Southern spokesman told CNBC the train carrier is now mandating that any trains over 10,000 feet use distributed power.

The 212-car train that derailed outside of Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday was not carrying any toxic materials, several state and local agencies confirmed. The EPA will stay on site for cleanup.

Pete Buttigieg is lashing out at his critics who said he should have visited the East Palestine, Ohio, wreck site earlier and questioned his footwear.

Gov. Josh Shapiro says Norfolk Southern has pledged several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in Pennsylvania after last month’s derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals just across the border in Ohio.

Authorities in Ohio say there is no indication of any risk to public health from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern cargo train between Dayton and Columbus, the second derailment of a company train in the state in a month.

The cars that derailed on Springfield, Ohio, were carrying nonhazardous materials, county officials said. Another Norfolk Southern train derailed in February, releasing dangerous chemicals.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering rail operator Norfolk Southern to begin testing for dioxins in the area where a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio.

Residents are saying they’re still suffering from illnesses nearly a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in Ohio.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has proposed legislation that would make railroads, like the one involved in last month’s fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio, subject to a series of new federal safety regulations and financial consequences.

Federal regulators are urging freight railroads to reexamine the way they use and maintain the detectors along the tracks that are supposed to spot overheating bearings in the wake of the fiery Ohio derailment and several other recent crashes where faulty bearings are suspected to be the cause.

Cleanup continues after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio. Meanwhile, Roanoke officials are preparing in the event something like this happens in the Star City.

A person with knowledge of the negotiations says Cleveland Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam have agreed to purchase Marc Lasry’s 25% stake of the Milwaukee Bucks in a deal that puts the value of the NBA franchise at $3.5 billion.

Federal environmental authorities say shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment will resume Monday to two Ohio sites.

Federal environmental authorities have ordered a temporary halt in the shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment in Ohio involving hazardous materials.

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, say they are still fearful as activist Erin Brockovich warns they are in for a long battle after a train derailment earlier this month.

President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment that has morphed into a political controversy.

The White House is calling on congressional Republicans to increase the fines levied on rail companies for safety violations in the wake of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

The crew operating a freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, didn’t get much warning before dozens of cars went off the tracks, and there is no indication that crew members did anything wrong.

Norfolk Southern has become the third major freight railroad to offer some of its employees paid sick time.

A reserve offensive lineman for the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles will make his initial court appearance in Ohio on rape and kidnapping charges next month after waiving his arraignment in the case.

Donald Trump is criticizing the federal response to the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as a betrayal.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered Norfolk Southern on Tuesday to pay for the cleanup of the East Palestine, Ohio train wreck and chemical release as federal regulators took charge of long-term recovery efforts and promised worried residents they wouldn’t be forgotten.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act to improve safety while regulators try to strengthen safety rules in the wake of a fiery derailment in Ohio that forced evacuations when toxic chemicals were released and burned.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning the CEO of Norfolk Southern that the freight rail company must “demonstrate unequivocal support for the people” of East Palestine, Ohio, and surrounding areas.

An Ohio man is facing charges after leading U.S. Marshals on a high-speed pursuit from Augusta County to Alleghany County Saturday, according to the Alleghany County Sheriff’s Office.

Two train derailments in neighboring states had very different outcomes — and officials say that's not unusual.

Ohio’s governor says a plume of chemicals that spilled into the Ohio River after a fiery train derailment has broken up and is no longer a concern.

Thousands of miles from the front lines, a sprawling manufacturing plant in the small midwestern city of Lima, Ohio, is playing a critical role in the effort to arm Ukraine as it fends off the Russian invasion.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality weighs in on concerns of neighboring impacts of Ohio train derailment.

Ohio State University says it plans to use a $110 million donation from IT innovator and executive Ratmir Timashev’s family foundation to establish a software innovation center with the goal of becoming a hub for new ideas, entrepreneurship and product development.

West Virginia officials are reiterating that the state’s drinking water is safe following an Ohio train derailment that released a toxic plume of chemicals.

Residents of the Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a school gym to seek answers about whether they are safe from toxic chemicals that spilled or were burned off.

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is trying to assure residents forced from their homes by a toxic train derailment in Ohio nearly two weeks ago that testing shows the air and water are now safe.