Recovered from COVID-19, Wary First Responders Back on Job April 29, 2020 By Stefanie Dazio, Jake Bleiberg and Michael R. Sisak The new coronavirus doesn’t care about a blue uniform or a shiny badge. Police, firefighters, paramedics and corrections officers are...
Indictment Alleges New York Pharma Ex-CEO Ignored Red Flags as Opioid Crisis Raged April 25, 2019 By Michael R. Sisak The pharmaceutical industry executive hit Tuesday with criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis doesn’t have his name on a...
New York Transformer Explosion Lights Sky, Causes Power Outages December 31, 2018 By Jim Mustian and Michael R. Sisak A transformer explosion at an electrical plant set the skies above New York City ablaze in an eerie, pulsing blue...
Investigators Probe Cause of New Jersey School Bus Crash That Killed Two May 21, 2018 By David Porter and Michael R. Sisak First, a scraping sound. Then, chaos and panic as a bus taking a group of fifth-graders on a field trip...
NTSB: Amtrak’s Lax Safety Led to Penn. Crash That Killed Two Workers November 16, 2017 By Michael R. Sisak Two maintenance workers who were struck and killed by a speeding Amtrak train near Philadelphia last year were the victims...
Test Results Show Pennsylvania Workers Killed by Train Were on Drugs February 20, 2017 By Michael R. Sisak Both maintenance workers killed by an Amtrak train near Philadelphia, Penn., last year were on drugs when the crash happened,...
Test Results Show Pennsylvania Workers Killed by Train Were on Drugs January 31, 2017 By Michael R. Sisak Both maintenance workers killed by an Amtrak train near Philadelphia last year were on drugs when the crash happened, test...
Top New York City Commuter Rails Slow to Progress on Technology November 30, 2016 By Michael R. Sisak The nation’s three busiest commuter railroads – which together serve nearly 1 million riders in the New York City area...
After New Jersey Train Crash, Transit Regulators Targeting Sleep Apnea November 22, 2016 By Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak Federal regulators want railroads across the country to test train operators for a sleep disorder. The safety advisory being issued...
Unions Urge Amtrak to Put 2nd Crew Member in Locomotives May 21, 2015 By Michael R. Sisak The union for Amtrak’s locomotive engineers urged the railroad on Tuesday to put a second crew member at the controls...