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Safety official says GPS system could have prevented fatal train crash

Federal investigators spent a second day Monday at the site of a deadly train crash in South Carolina, where an Amtrak train was mistakenly sent off a main track and down a side spur and into a parked freight train.

 
Ex-sports doctor gets 3rd prison term in sex abuse scandal

The former sports doctor whose serial sexual abuse of girls and young women has shaken the gymnastics world was sentenced Monday to a third prison term of 40 to 125 years behind bars for molesting young athletes at an elite Michigan training center.

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Spooked carriage horse runs wild, 3 passengers hurt in N.Y.

Police say a New York City carriage horse took off running after being scared by a screaming pedestrian with an umbrella, leaving three passengers injured and damaging some cars.