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After Ohio train derailment, tank cars didn't need to be blown open to release chemical, NTSB says 03/06/2024 06:56pm • The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn't justified, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board told Congress Wednesday. But she said the key decision-makers who feared those tank cars we F1's George Russell calls for transparency after report FIA president sought to overturn penalty 03/06/2024 06:33pm • JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Mercedes driver George Russell has called for transparency following a report alleging that the president of Formula 1's governing body intervened to overturn a penalty last season. Russell finished fourth behind Fernando Alonso in last year's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix b Luck strikes twice for Kentucky couple who lost, then found, winning lottery ticket 03/06/2024 04:32pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Luck struck twice for a Kentucky couple who thought they lost a winning Powerball ticket. The Bowling Green couple found out in November that they had won $50,000 but couldn't find the ticket they had purchased about a week before, the Kentucky Lottery said in a news release Ex-Virginia lawmaker acquitted of hit-and-run charges 03/06/2024 04:23pm • LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia lawmaker has been acquitted of felony hit-and-run and malicious wounding charges after being indicted last year for striking his ex-girlfriend with his SUV after they argued. The jury reached a verdict Tuesday following Matt Fariss' trial in Campbell Circuit Organized crime ain’t what it used to be. Md. lawmakers say it’s time to update the law 03/06/2024 03:58pm • For a lot of people, the term "organized crime" conjures up images of backroom mafia deals or highly structured street gangs dealing drugs and getting engaged in turf wars. But like everything else in the world, things are changing. “We are witnessing the emergence of smaller, more agile crimin Microsoft engineer sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company's board 03/06/2024 03:44pm • A Microsoft engineer is sounding alarms about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company's artificial intelligence image-generator tool, sending letters on Wednesday to U.S. regulators and the tech giant's board of directors urging them to take action. Shane Jones told Missouri governor offers 'deepest sympathy' after reducing former Chiefs assistant's DWI sentence 03/06/2024 03:36pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has offered his “deepest sympathy” to the family of a 5-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a drunken driving crash, after facing criticism for releasing from prison the driver who caused the crash, former Kansas City Chiefs assistant co Indiana lawmakers in standoff on antisemitism bill following changes sought by critics of Israel 03/06/2024 03:08pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Disagreements among Indiana lawmakers could stop passage of a bill aiming to address antisemitism on college campuses for the second year in a row, leaving Indiana students and professors uneasy as divisions surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war deepen. Indiana House Republ Former deputy convicted of violated civil rights, obstruction of justice 03/06/2024 01:28pm • LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A former sheriff's deputy in central Kentucky has been convicted in federal court of violating the civil rights of people he arrested by using unnecessary force and obstructing justice by trying to cover up his actions, the Justice Department said. A jury in Lexington handed OpenAI says Musk agreed the ChatGPT maker should become a for-profit company 03/06/2024 01:05pm • Elon Musk supported making OpenAI a for-profit company, the ChatGPT maker said, attacking a lawsuit from the wealthy investor who has accused the artificial intelligence business of betraying its founding goal to benefit humanity as it pursued profits instead. In its first response since the Tesla C Climate-conscious travelers are jumpstarting Europe’s sleeper trains 03/06/2024 11:54am • After being gently rocked awake in her sleeper cabin, Sarah Marks spent the morning of her 29th birthday watching the Alps zip past the windows of her overnight train to Zurich. “The train comes in right next to the lake, with the mountains coming up behind it,” Marks said wistfully. “Very rom New to riding a sleeper train? Here’s the best way to book tickets 03/06/2024 11:43am • As more people reconsider how they travel on a warming planet, a small but growing contingent in Europe wants to switch from high-emission, short-haul planes to more climate-friendly sleeper trains. But for all the climate benefits — plus the enduring romance of overnight train journeys — it's n Md. juvenile justice reform bills approved, work to resolve differences begins 03/06/2024 09:10am • Now that Maryland lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved juvenile justice reform measures, members of each chamber must determine how to resolve differences in separate bills. House Bill 814 and Senate Bill 744 have similar provisions such as requiring the state Department of Juvenile Servic Workplace safety regulator says management failed in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin 03/05/2024 11:41pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Complaints by a movie weapons supervisor to managers went unheeded as she sought more time and resources to fulfill safety duties on the set of the Western movie “Rust,” where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer, a workplace safety investigator testified Tue Nearly four decades later, arrest made in brutal murder of Stafford Co. woman; suspect linked to another killing in region 03/05/2024 11:08pm • An arrest has been made in a cold case that has haunted Stafford County for nearly 40 years: the brutal sexual assault and murder of a DEA agent's wife working one night at a real estate office in Stafford County. Newly-analyzed forensic evidence in the case also points to the suspect's involveme