Claims Against Saudis Cast New Light on Secret Pages of 9/11 Report - NYT | U.S. Joins Europe in Effort to End Fighting in Ukraine - NYT | "...the most deadly accident in the history of the Metro-North Railroad, with six people killed and more than a dozen injured after the collision in Valhalla, in Westchester County... investigators worked to understand why a car became stranded on the tracks... many questions remained unanswered. Specifically... in these types of accidents, train passengers are rarely killed." - from: Investigation Underway in Metro-North Train Crash - NYT
"Officials investigating a train-car collision in Westchester County, New York, today are examining physical evidence at the scene and units that recorded train and car signals -- but they say they can't get away from a question at the core of the case: Why would an SUV driver pull forward into the path of an oncoming train? "We're going to do everything we can to try and understand that key fact: Why was that car stopped on the tracks?" National Transportation Safety Board vice chairman Robert Sumwalt said today. A motorist who said he was in the car behind Ellen Brody, 49, a mother of three, told ABC News after Tuesday's accident that he even backed up to allow Brody to get out of harm's way. "I’m waiting for her to back up and she moves forward," Rick Hope said. "And she moves forward probably 15 feet right in front of the train. She looked very calm and she took what I thought was an awful long time because I’m think