A. D. Lewis, Administrator Behind Conrail, Is Dead at 88
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In the 1970s, Mr. Lewis played a pivotal role in determining the future of the railroad industry in the United States.
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President George W. Bush's uncle, William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, was part of a group of outside directors at a defense contractor who realized about $6 million in unauthorized pay from an options backdating scheme, according to U.S. securities investigators.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Miles Lerman, who fought against the Nazis in Poland and later helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has died. He was 88.
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GASTONIA, N.C. (Sports Network) - Ted Abernathy, who twice  led the National League in saves during the 1960s, has passed  away at the age 71.
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MINNEAPOLIS - An 87-year-old man was killed Saturday when his car was hit by a light rail train in south Minneapolis, the first fatal accident on the rail system since it began operation three months ago.
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A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany. The 23-year-old lay down on the track as the train passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Former Texas first lady Nellie   Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John   F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the   age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Mr. Warrington ushered in the Acela high-speed service when he headed Amtrak and double-decker cars when he was chief executive of New Jersey Transit.
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Lawmakers on Tuesday warned that Amtrak, the financially struggling national passenger railroad, could go out of business next year if Congress goes along with a &#36;900 million funding level supported by the Bush administration.
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Enron Corp. founder and chief executive  Ken Lay, who was convicted in May for his role in the in the  Houston-based company&#039;s downfall, died of a heart attack on  Wednesday at his vacation home in Colorado.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. - George Swift Schairer, a scientist whose discovery of Nazi wind tunnel research played a crucial role in development of swept-wing jets, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimerâs disease, his son said.
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Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was   convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy for his part in the   Houston-based company's collapse into bankruptcy in 2001, has   died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Colorado, a   Houston television station reported on Wednesday.
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The chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, Timothy B. Harbert, died of a heart attack on Tuesday night, the company said yesterday. He was 53.
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By Williams, Florence "If policy is too fragmented, it doesn't have to be. -By Florence Williams  Russell E. Train was Undersecretary of the Interior when President Nixon appointed him to chair the brand new White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in 1970.
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U.S. transportation investigators on Tuesday blamed the fatal collapse in Boston's Big Dig tunnel last year on a ceiling adhesive that was not strong enough, and determined contractors and authorities probably could have taken steps to avert the disaster.
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Jerry Orbach, who walked the beat on NBC's Law & Order   for the last 12 seasons as sardonic Detective Lennie Briscoe, has died   of prostate cancer, his publicist said Wednesday. He was 69.
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Pauline Gore, whose son Al became vice president and nearly captured the presidency and whose husband served a lengthy and distinguished career in Congress, died Wednesday. She was 92.