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DEA chooses KCK as one of 11 cities to begin operation educating people about Fentanyl overdoses. A DEA campaign intended to decrease overdose deaths from counterfeit fentanyl pills has arrived in Kansas City, Kansas. Updated: 2 hours ago. |. On Tuesday morning, a team of 16 National Transportation Safety Board...

An Olathe woman's mother and aunt were among those killed in Monday's Amtrak train derailment in Mendon, Missouri.

A Trenton man is making an initial appearance in Grundy County Court today on two felony charges. Court documents say Mitchell Dane Knapp faces felony charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance except for 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoid. Records...

A pair of Boy Scout troops from Wisconsin stepped up to help in the immediate aftermath of Monday's Amtrak crash in Missouri, which left three people dead. Boy Scout Troops 73 and 12, of Appleton, Wisconsin, were returning home from a 10-day backpacking trip in New Mexico when the train they were riding collided with a dump truck in Mendon, Missouri, Scott Armstrong, director of national media relations with the Boy Scouts of America, tells PEOPLE.

Three were injured in a single-vehicle accident in Grundy County Monday afternoon. State Troopers responded to the accident on NW 22nd, north of Trenton at about 4:30 pm. The report states 25-year-old Samantha L Knapp of Trenton was southbound when she lost control and ran off the right side of the road, striking an embankment, overturning onto the driver’s side and then back to its wheels.

Three Trenton residents, including a child, were injured Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle, rollover, accident just north of Trenton. Taken by EMS to Wright Memorial Hospital were the driver, 25-year-old Samantha Knapp as well as passengers, 29-year-old Brandon Burkhardt, and a seven-year-old boy. The highway patrol reported the two adults received moderate injuries and the young boy received minor injuries.

CHARITON COUNTY, Mo. – The Amtrak Southwest Chief collided with a dump truck on Monday afternoon, causing all but one car to derail southwest of Mendon, Mo. An additional person has died in a Columbia, Mo. hospital since initial information Monday evening was confirmed in a press conference. “There are now a total of four fatalities in the crash. Three...

Three bookings at the Daviess Dekalb Regional Jail are reported by the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department, including two on out-of-state warrants. 42-year-old Amanda R Whitworth of Cleveland Texas was arrested on a warrant for alleged probation violation for possession of a controlled substance. She is held pending extradition. 38-year-old...

“They’ll have this one solved really quickly,” a former U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general told The Star.

A Missouri farmer said he warned the railway that owns the crossing where an Amtrak train derailed Monday that the area was dangerous — and urged others to proceed over it with caution just weeks before the crash that killed three people and injured dozens more. Local farmer Mike Spencer said he was not surprised by the derailment near Mendon and argued that it could have been prevented because he claimed the railroad was aware that the “uncontrolled” crossing was unsafe. “That was pretty much a no-brainer,” he told the Kansas City Star. “I predicted this was going to happen. I was...

A 15-year-old Boy Scout rushed from safety to comfort a dying driver after the dump truck he was in was struck by an Amtrak train.

Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities. Within 24 hours, two Amtrak trains crashed into vehicles on the tracks at junctions with no safety guards or alerts, killing a total of six people. On Sunday around 1 p.m. an Amtrak train in Brentwood, California hit a car...

MENDON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Department of Transportation plan released this year cited a need to improve safety at the rail crossing where an Amtrak train and a dump truck collided, resulting in the deaths of three passengers and the truck driver.The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced the fourth death Tuesday afternoon and provided its first estimate of the injured — about 150 people taken to 10 area hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to serious. The dead have not been identified.The crossing in a rural area near Mendon in western Missouri, about 84 miles (135 kilometers) northeast of...

The collision near Mendon, Missouri, killed two people on the train and the driver of the dump truck, said Cpl. Justin Dunn with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The post Three dead after Amtrak train derails in Chariton County appeared first on ABC17NEWS.

GALESBURG — Several riders who had tickets for Amtrak's Southwest Chief were waiting in Galesburg's Amtrak station yesterday after the train was derailed in Mendon, Missouri. Authorities said that the train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago with 275 passengers aboard when it struck a dump truck and...