Police Ticket Freight Train in Indiana
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GOSHEN, Ind. - A mile-long freight train was ticketed by police for blocking a dozen city crossings for almost an hour as it awaited the arrival of a replacement crew...
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FOOTBALL Colts running back Dominic Rhodes faces a drunken driving charge after state troopers arrested him early yesterday. Rhodes, 28, was pulled over at about 3 a.m. driving a GMC truck 81 miles per hour in a 55-m.p.h. zone on Interstate 65 in Indianapolis's far northwest side, Indiana State Police spokesman 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said. "It was a normal, ...
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Poor record keeping coupled with a lack of communication worsened a dangerous situation triggered by the 2001 derailment of a freight train underneath the city's central business district, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.
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By Paul Grimaldi; Journal Staff Writer  Berkeley Transportation is ordered to pay $80,000 for twice hauling hazardous chemical waste from East Providence to a freight depot in Warwick.
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KEWASKUM, Wis. - A police chief who ticketed himself for a traffic violation says that he has received congratulatory e-mails from all over the globe and that he has even turned down money to cover the fine.
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The sun had just set on a cool April day, when truck driver Robert F. Spencer phoned his sister in Michigan. He was in Indiana, and, as authorities would later discover, had been driving his rig for hours longer than federal law allows.
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By The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  Mar. 5--Motorists traveling Jackson County's low areas likely found themselves detoured this morning.
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In the last four years, Highway Patrol trooper Craig Beedy has taken part in two traffic stops that netted about $200,000 in seized cash. The agency wasn't allowed to keep any of it.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - It's not quite the highway beautification Illinois transportation officials had in mind.
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The Bloomington Police Department is beefing up its corps of civilian volunteers who enforce handicapped-parking regulations - something we advocated on this Opinion page a year ago.  We are glad to see Bloomington taking this action and hope many people sign on to help.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Two men hauling more than 40,000 pounds of Jawbreaker candies also had some not-so-sweet freight, the Minnesota State Patrol said: nearly 1 1/2 tons of marijuana.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for a project to cut diesel emissions from locomotives at the Ports of Indiana facility in Jeffersonville, Ind., on the Ohio River.
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A federal grant pays for a program that recruits and trains truckers to be on the lookout for safety hazards and suspicious behavior. By Ryan Singel.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. - Police were searching for a man who gave a $20 tip to a gas station clerk he had just held up. Police were distributing surveillance camera photographs taken during the Nov. 4 robbery of the gas station convenience store in Greenwood, just south of Indianapolis.
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Police probing the Ufton Nervet train crash are focusing on why a motorist parked his car in the path of the high-speed service.
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By Nicole Lee, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Sep. 12--Lawyers for a man held in Allen County jail last month filed suit Monday against Allen County Sheriff James Herman and a corrections officer identified only by his last name.   Devin W.
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A freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed early Saturday, damaging at least four homes and forcing the evacuation of about 30 others, officials said. No serious injuries were reported.