By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Investigators were combing through the debris from an Amtrak train crash Tuesday night that killed at least seven people and injured more than 200, The New York Times reports. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the probe, will “look at everything that could have led to this occurrence,” lead…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI plans to offer a $300,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect who caused the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in 1995, The Arizona Republic reports. The derailment about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix caused the death of one Amtrak employee and the injury…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA forked over $854,460 to an Amtrak secretary for confidential information the agency should have gotten for free, according to an internal investigation. The DEA paid the employee to be an informant despite the agency’s right to obtain the information at no cost as part of a joint drug enforcement task…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The sentimental guy that he was, Osama bin Laden wanted to commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of 9/11 with a plot to derail a U.S. train, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that materials seized during the raid at the Pakistan compound showed bin Laden was scheming since last…
