NEW YORK — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — A federal investigator said Wednesday that a coal train that derailed in Maryland was going the authorized speed of 25 miles per hour with the engineer-in-training at the controls before the fatal accident. Investigators were checking videos, ...

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A CSX train derailed early Tuesday morning on a bridge above Frederick Road in downtown Ellicott City, killing two teenagers. Nearly two dozen cars flipped over, and investigators are still trying to determine a cause. ...

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WASHINGTON — Inadequate safeguards and poor communications are to blame for a Metro transit accident that killed two workers doing track work two years ago, federal safety investigators said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board issued its final report on ...

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OAKLAND, Md. — A registered sex offender who apparently disliked his young buddy’s girlfriend was convicted in a plea deal Wednesday of fatally stabbing them both in a hobo camp in the western Maryland town of Oakland. Jeffrey C. Minnick, ...

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PIKESVILLE — Police have identified two men who died after a release of carbon monoxide in a Pikesville home. The victims were 27-year-old Enael Garcia Lemus and 26-year-old Nelvy Arodain Salguero. Their bodies were found Sunday morning in a basement ...

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