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Norfolk Southern investigators are looking into the cause of a train derailment that occurred in Chillicothe early Tuesday morning.
According to Chillicothe police, 20 cars went off the tracks between East 4th Street and East 7th Street at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday.
There were no injuries reported, but the stretch of tracks is damaged, according to investigators.
The cars, which were carrying coal, did not tip over.
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Crashes involving a semi-truck hauling two trailers and other vehicles have prompted state police to close Interstate 70 in both directions in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The crash happened Tuesday morning near the exit for Eighty Four and state Route 519 in Washington County. That's about 25 miles inside Pennsylvania, east of the West Virginia border.
A Boston Globe delivery truck and a pickup truck collided on the northbound side of Interstate 93 in Boston early this morning, injuring the 37-year-old pickup truck driver, State Police said.
The crash occurred at 1:05 a.m. near Exit 28 in Boston, sending the pickup truck over the guardrail, where it was hanging when police arrived.
The pickup truck driver was sent to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is being treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening, said State Trooper Todd Nolan.
A woman was killed early Christmas Eve morning after she was crushed by her own car in northwest Houston.
Police said the 24-year-old woman was headed westbound on Hempstead Highway around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning when she lost control of her Mercedes on a curve near Dacoma Street.
Officials said the car started flipping and the woman was tossed from the vehicle. The car landed on top of the woman, crushing her to death.
It was unclear if alcohol factored into the crash.
Police say the driver of a SUV intentionally ran over a 50-year-old man on Christmas Eve in southeast Houston and fled the scene.
Around 9 p.m. Tuesday, witnesses saw the victim speak to the driver inside the SUV at 6000 Bellfort near Mykawa. The man tried to run away from the car. As the man fell down, the driver ran him over. He died at the scene.
Police said one witness provided part of the SUV's license plate number as "82G."
The woman killed early Tuesday when she was struck by a car on the West Side has been identified by authorities.
Shena Brown, 44, of Chicago was hit by a car about 4:40 a.m. near West Roosevelt Road and South Damen Avenue, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
She was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, where she later died, police said.
Los Angeles police say talk show host Arsenio Hall drove off a road in the San Fernando Valley but he's uninjured.
Hall lost control of his Porsche and drove into a dirt shoulder at around 7:15 p.m. Monday in West Hills.
The car had to be towed.
It's unclear why Hall lost control of the car but police have ruled out driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
A stretch of Interstate 95 in Flagler County will reopen by 6 p.m. after being closed when a driver was killed in a fiery crash that damaged the roadway, officials said.
In a tweet earlier on Tuesday, the Flagler County sheriff said, "NB 95 FROM PALM COAST PKWY TO US1 WILL BE CLOSED UP TO 24 HOURS DUE TO CRASH."
Florida Highway Patrol crews were called around 4 a.m. Tuesday to I-95 northbound near Palm Coast Parkway in Palm Coast in reference to a crash.