Feds: Engineer’s sleepiness caused derailment

NEW YORK (AP) – A sleep-deprived engineer nodded off at the controls of a commuter train just before taking a 30 mph curve at 82 mph, causing a derailment last year that killed four people and injured more than 70, federal regulators said Tuesday. William Rockefeller’s sleepiness was due to a combination of an undiagnosed […]

Boston bombing suspect’s friend convicted of lying to FBI

BOSTON (AP) – A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted Tuesday of lying during the investigation into the 2013 attack. Robel Phillipos, 21, of Cambridge, was convicted of two counts for lying about being in Tsarnaev’s dorm room while two other friends removed a backpack containing fireworks and other potential evidence […]

Hagel considering new military-wide Ebola policy

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon says the military service chiefs recommended to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that he require all U.S. troops returning from counter-Ebola missions in West Africa be kept in supervised isolation for 21 days. The Pentagon press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook says Apple Pay a success

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple’s new mobile payment system had over 1 million activations in the first three days after it became available, and is now more widely used than any competing payment system. “We’re already No. 1. We’re more than the total of the other guys,” Cook boasted […]

Police: New Mexico deputy kills fleeing colleague

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A northern New Mexico sheriff’s deputy accused of killing a fellow deputy fired several rounds from his semi-automatic weapon as his colleague tried to flee an alcohol-fueled argument at a hotel, police said Tuesday. The shooting happened just after midnight at Hotel Encanto in the southern New Mexico city of […]

Sheriff: 2 shot outside NC courthouse, 2 sought

NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) – A manhunt is on for two suspects in the shooting of two men outside a North Carolina courthouse Tuesday, authorities said. Nash County Sheriff Dick Jenkins said the men had non-life-threatening wounds in the shooting that happened about 11:15 a.m. He says one man ran inside the building and collapsed after […]

Hackers target Fort Myers family business and daughter

FORT MYERS, Fla.- The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a case of hacking. A Fort Myers mother says it’s one of the worst thing that could happen to her family. Her business, and her 10-year-old girl was victimized by cyber criminals. According to the incident report, someone posted nude photos on their daughter’s website. […]