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Amtrak is suing MS Contracting after a train struck one of its dump trucks in a collision that killed the truck's driver and three passengers.

Two train conductors have filed a lawsuit in Monday’s deadly train derailment in Mendon, Missouri.

The Chillicothe Police Department responded to 106 calls for service Thursday. The report includes an unattended death. 11:37 am, a vehicle accident was reported near Third and Wilson Street where a vehicle struck and damaged a parking sign at the street edge. Minor damage. 6:27 pm, Officers responded to the...

On Monday Amtrak's Southwest Chief struck a dump truck in a railroad crossing near Mendon, Missouri. When it was all said and done, three passengers aboard the train and the truck driver died. 150 other passengers suffered injuries. Not to mention the damage to Amtrak's equipment, and the inconvenience it will cause Amtrak riders for months because those train cars are out of commission. And the reality is, that the tragedy was preventable.

Railway companies Amtrak and BNSF have now filed a federal lawsuit against the company the truck driver worked for in this week's deadly Missouri train crash.

Amtrak and railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe have sued the company that employed a dump truck driver killed in a train crash this week in Chariton County. The post Amtrak, BNSF sue dump truck driver’s company in fatal train crash and derailment appeared first on ABC17NEWS.

Amtrak is suing the owner of the truck that was hit by a train in Missouri, leading to a fatal derailment. The lawsuit filed Thursday seeks $75,000 from MS Contracting, which operated the dump truck that was struck by a train on 27 June. It alleges that the truck’s driver, Billy Dean Barton II, was aware that it was unsafe to cross the tracks when he did so because he could see that the train was on its way toward the crossing. “Despite the fact that it was unsafe, careless and reckless to do so because of the clearly...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The first lawsuits have been filed only days after an Amtrak train collision and derailment in rural Missouri that left four people dead and injured up to 150 others. In a federal lawsuit filed Friday, surviving passenger Janet Williams of Dubuque, Iowa, named Amtrak,...

WAPAKONETA — A man whose family was onboard the Amtrack passenger train that struck a dump truck in Missouri is sharing a different side of the tragedy — hope. Dr. Joshua Steinke posted a photo of the 16 family members on his public Facebook page, detailing the family’s story.

A new Code Enforcement and Zoning Officer was hired for the City of Chillicothe. In Monday’s Executive Session, the council approved Gil Gates to fill the position full-time. The pay is set at $21.64/hour. The vote from the council was 5/0.

The annual fireworks display in Chillicothe is Sunday, July 3, 2022, at dusk. The Chillicothe Rotary Club is presenting the display starting at approximately 9:45 p.m. The patriotic display returns to the north end of Chillicothe, near Simpson Park. Organizations say the public should take lawn chairs and choose a...

A second lawsuit is filed in response to a fatal train derailment earlier this week in Chariton County. KCTV-Kansas City reports both Amtrak and BNSF, who owns the track, have filed a federal lawsuit against the company that owns the dump truck involved in the crash. The lawsuit alleges MS...

Imagine if you were on the train that derailed in Missouri on Monday. What would you have done? Two Boy Scout troops from Wisconsin were aboard the train, and are sharing their story.

By Lily O’Shea Becker A mother aboard a train derailment in Mendon, Missouri, on Monday climbed on top of the wreckage and went from train car to train car, yelling into each window while searching for her three children, according to her son, Dax McDonald.  The Amtrak train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago […] The post Brother and sister recount ‘very traumatizing’ Amtrak derailment in Missouri appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.