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USA today | December 23, 2016

The train engineer who fell asleep at the controls of a speeding New York train three years ago, causing a derailment that killed four and injured dozens of passengers, will receive a $3,200-a-month disability pension from the railroad for the rest of his life....

Uber | April 09, 2018

Elaine Hertzberg, 49, was walking her bike across North Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona. She was struck and killed by a vehicle, becoming the latest of roughly 6000 pedestrians killed every year in the US. But the vehicle that hit her was unlike any other that had killed before. The Volvo XC90 SUV was owned and labeled as an Uber self-driving car. In the self-driving mode, it was designed to be safer than a normal, human-operated car. It had LiDAR and radar to see through the dark. A bank of near-...

The Christian Science Monitor | May 16, 2018

In August 2017, Alexis Dale moved from San Diego to South Florida to attend Florida International University, trading one coastal paradise for another. Friends and family knew Ms. Dale as one of a kind – an ambitious young woman who was eager to pursue a degree in information technology and who loved her dog, Bella. But Dale was also one of the hundreds of pedestrians who died in Florida that year when she was struck by a car while crossing an eight-lane road near campus at 3 a.m. Read More

Douglas County School | June 18, 2019

The Douglas County School Board may put the STEM School Highlands Ranch on a short leash amid concerns over safety and security in the wake of last month’s fatal shooting attack at the school. The school board will vote on a resolution Tuesday night that would allow the school to remain open on a provisional one-year charter while the Douglas County School District investigates the shooting that left eight students injured and one dead. The action would allow the school to remain open for ...