BANGOR (AP) — Survivors of more than 30 people killed when an oil train derailed in Quebec in July are seeking a role in the U.S. bankruptcy case of the company whose train caused the disaster. The motions filed last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court ask for the creation of committee to represent wrongful-death and […]
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Police say brake failure on dump truck may have led to collision with train in Hampden
HAMPDEN — Brake failure on a 23-year-old dump truck may have led to a collision with a train at a railroad crossing in Hampden on Thursday, according to police. Maine State Police Sgt. Jason Sattler said Friday evening that an initial investigation found that six of the dump truck’s eight brakes were not functioning properly […]
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Auburn police arrest 3 oil train protestors
AUBURN — The way Jessie Dowling sees it, getting arrested is the very least she can do. “We need to put our bodies on the line,” the 32-year-old Unity woman said, just before being led into a police van for the short ride to jail. “We don’t want another Lac-Megantic.” And there, in one simple […]
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Libraries raise funds to help build Lac-Megantic library
FARMINGTON — When the downtown area of Lac-Megantic was destroyed in the deadly July 6 oil train derailment, the Quebec town also lost its library, the Bibliotheque de Lac-Megantic. Libraries across the state are joining to raise funds to help rebuild the library. Donation cans are available for the next few weeks at the circulation […]
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Mexico migrant train derails; at least 5 dead
CHONTALPA, Mexico (AP) — A notorious cargo train known as “the Beast” and carrying at least 250 Central American hitchhiking migrants derailed in a remote region of southern Mexico on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 18, authorities said. The train company and rescue workers were bringing in two cranes to help search […]
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Man struck by train at Scarborough intersection
SCARBOROUGH — Scarborough police confirmed Sunday morning that one person was struck by a southbound Amtrak Downeaster train near the Black Point Road underpass at about 8:15 a.m. The male victim — whose name has not been released — apparently ran in front of the train while trying to cross the tracks between the crossing […]
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Quebec tragedy brings hardship to Maine rail town
BROWNVILLE (AP) — A central Maine town that’s a hub for a railroad whose runaway oil train derailment killed 47 people in a small Quebec town is feeling the fallout from the accident. Brownville’s normally a noisy place with workers shifting railroad cars around a network of tracks in town. But the accident that brought […]
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Quebec police end search for bodies of train crash victims
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — The search is ending for five bodies that remain missing after an oil train derailed and exploded in a Quebec town, killing 47 people last month. Quebec provincial police Lt. Guy Lapointe said Thursday that they have done everything possible to find the remaining bodies. The coroner’s office says it has identified […]
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Protesters rally against tar sands at Sebago Lake State Park
In the wake of the July 6 explosion of a train carrying crude oil from North Dakota through Maine to Lac-Megantic, Quebec, opponents of so-called tar sands crude oil gathered Saturday at Sebago Lake State Park to protest transportation of the bituminous oil across Maine and call attention to the threat to the lake from […]
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Insufficient brake force blamed in derailment
NEW YORK (AP) — A fiery and fatal train derailment earlier this month in Quebec, near the Maine border, highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail, a practice that has grown exponentially as a result of the oil boom and will continue to expand, experts say. This year, more trains carrying crude will chug […]