Tougher safety tests of lithium-ion batteries that were implemented after Boeing Co.’s 787 was approved remain inadequate to ensure that the power packs won’t overheat in flight, a U.S. investigation has concluded.

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The driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed into two cars on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, sending one into the water, was on his first trip in the U.S. without a more experienced operator, a preliminary report said Monday. The National ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Officials are looking into whether some attorneys may have violated a U.S. law barring uninvited solicitation of air disaster victims in the first 45 days after an accident in connection with the crash landing of Asiana Flight ...

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The National Transportation Safety Board says it will investigate last week’s accident on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in which a car that collided with a tractor-trailer went over the railing and into the water. The NTSB said Wednesday it will ...

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SANDY POINT — AAA Mid-Atlantic is calling for a federal investigation into the safety of barriers on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after a car crashed and fell off the bridge and into the water. In a letter to the National ...

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WASHINGTON — Metro says some rail operators have been disabling emergency intercoms on trains. Metro has said that it has known about intercom problems since 2009, but didn’t address them. General Manager Richard Sarles said Thursday that at the time, ...

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CSX is suing a garbage truck driver and his company for negligence in the explosive derailment of a freight train near Baltimore.

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CSX says rail lines where a freight train and trash truck collided near Baltimore have reopened. CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan said in an email Friday that rail service at the crash site in Rosedale was restored on one track at ...

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WASHINGTON — States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half — from .08 blood alcohol level to 0.05 — matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a U.S. safety board recommends. That’s ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators let Boeing write the safety conditions for the problematic battery system in its beleaguered 787 “Dreamliner,” prescribe how to test it and carry out those tests itself, according to testimony and documents released at a hearing ...

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