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Update:  A National Transportation Safety Board official says the engineer of an Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia applied the emergency brakes just before the crash. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said that the train was traveling at 106 mph when the engineer hit the brakes...

The death toll from the train derailment in north Philadelphia is now up to six.

Baseball fans were ready for their first swing at the sport's new security guidelines. Forget the $30 tickets, $9 beers and $16 parking charges. Baseball fans have more reason to empty their pockets, only this time of keys, mobile phones _ and whatever loose change might be left _ before a day at the old ball game...

24 junior high schoolers from way up north will be visiting New Bedford this weekend. On Saturday, students, their parents, and teachers from the Anchor Lutheran Shool in Anchorage, Alaska will spend four hours in the Whaling City soaking up the culture...

One Pennsylvania man says he didn't see this much snow when he lived in Colorado.       The latest in a series of winter storms to hit the region has residents of the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast shoveling again today. Philadelphia received nearly nine inches of snow...

A Pennsylvania man is arrested in Dartmouth on weapons charges. According to Dartmouth Police, 32-year-old Jonathan Selden of Philedelphia was traveling on Rt 195 Thursday night, when members of the FBI Gang Task Force, Fall River, New Bedford, Dartmouth, and State Police arrested Selden...

On Wednesday morning, a four-story building in Philadelphia collapsed unexpectedly, trapping some people under the rubble and injuring others.