Transportation Department Tightens Noncitizen Truck Driver Rules September 29, 2025 By Josh Funk The U.S. Transportation Department tightened commercial driver’s license requirements for noncitizens on Sept. 26 after three fatal crashes this year...
Hearings Into Fatal Helicopter-Plane Crash in DC Reveal ‘Layers of Deficiencies’ August 3, 2025 By Josh Funk The pilots of a U.S. Army helicopter that collided with a passenger jet over Washington in January would’ve had difficulty...
NTSB Blames Delayed Response for 2023 Oil Spill off Coast of Louisiana June 27, 2025 By Josh Funk Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because...
Report Reveals Delay in Deploying Specialized Plane in Ohio Train Derailment June 9, 2025 By Josh Funk A specialized plane equipped with advanced sensors that the government deploys to chemical disasters could have helped authorities avoid needlessly...
Army Working to Fix Military and Traffic Controllers Communications at DC Airport May 16, 2025 By Josh Funk A hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn’t worked for more than three years...
Ohio Residents Divided Over Norfolk Southern Settlement Agreement May 2, 2025 By Josh Funk and John Seewer Norfolk Southern began making promises to East Palestine, Ohio, soon after its train derailed and caught fire in February 2023....
Norfolk Southern and OxyVinyls Reach Agreement on $600M Settlement April 21, 2025 By Josh Funk Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with one of two companies about how much each side will help pay for a...
Trial to Determine Who Will Pay $600M in Norfolk Southern Ohio Derailment March 31, 2025 By Josh Funk Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its...
Helicopter Crew in Collision With Plane May Not Have Heard Key Instruction: NTSB February 18, 2025 By Josh Funk, Tim Sullivan and Gary Fields The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan...
Lawsuit Blames Deaths on Ohio Train Derailment February 5, 2025 By Josh Funk and Julie Carr Smyth A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment was...