The DLR's new trains have been taken out of service just weeks after the first one started carrying passengers, following reports of problems with one of the trains breaking in wet weather. Transport for London ( TfL) says that although there has been only one isolated incident involving a single train, all three new trains that were in service have been temporarily withdrawn from service.
Police were investigating the explosion outside Delhi's historic Red Fort that killedeight people, with authorities focusing on the final movements of the vehicle allegedly involved. Police said the explosion occurred around 7pm on Monday evening outside the Red Fort metro station, a peak time when Delhi's old city is usually packed with people, bustling markets and heavy traffic. Delhi police commissioner Satish Golcha said the explosion took place after a slow moving vehicle stopped at a red light outside the metro station.
A 22-year-old man has died after a crash early Saturday morning in Bracebridge, about 80 kilometers northeast from Barrie, Ont., said Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Officers responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash around 1:30 a.m. on Fraserburg Road between McKay Trail and Old Cottage Road, said a news release by OPP. The 22-year-old passenger from Brantford, Ont., was pronounced dead after the head-on collission, said police. The two drivers and another passenger were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
An elderly woman was found dead at the scene of a fire in a Brampton high-rise on Thursday evening, Peel paramedics say. Fire crews responded to flames coming from a 14th-floor unit in an apartment building near Queen Street E. and Central Park Drive. The woman was pronounced dead but it's unclear whether the woman died as a result of the fire. Paramedics told CBC Toronto the woman did not appear to have any signs of smoke inhalation or burns.
Police in England on Sunday ruled out speculation that a mass stabbing on a passenger train that injured 11 people was a terrorist attack. "At this stage, there is nothing to suggest that this is a terrorist incident," British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless told UK media. He continued: "At this early stage, it would not be appropriate to speculate on the causes of the incident."
Martínéz, 27, was driving to Inter's training ground in Appiano Gentile when at 9:43 a.m. on a provincial road in Fenegrò, Como, Italy, when the car struck a man in an electric wheelchair that had crossed into his lane, the police report said. Martínéz stopped at the scene and called the emergency services, with an ambulance and a helicopter arriving minutes later, but attempts to revive the man were unsuccessful.
A youth counselor at a juvenile detention facility in Brooklyn pocketed more than $70,000 in bribes to sneak in drugs and weapons, Big Apple investigators said Thursday. Lymek Frazier, 31, is accused of taking payments from relatives and friends of youths locked up at the Crossroads Juvenile Center through cash apps, including over $21,000 in bribes in 48 "transactions" over just six months last year, the New York City Department of Investigation announced.
A 28-year-old man died at Walt Disney World's Contemporary Resort on Thursday, marking the third death at the Florida park and second at that resort in the past 10 days. The deceased was identified as Matthew Cohn, with Orlando's Orange County Medical Examiner's Office telling the Daily News that he's believed to have been staying at the hotel. The circumstances surrounding Cohn's death are still under investigation.
In a letter to interim Fire Chief Ronnie Villanueva, Bass asked that he "thoroughly investigate" a report by The Times about the Los Angeles Fire Department's missteps in putting out a small brush fire that federal authorities say was intentionally set on New Year's Day. The previously undisclosed details have prompted fresh outrage among those who lost homes in the worst fire in city history.
"We didn't ask to have legalized sports betting," Manfred said before Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night. "It kind of came, and that's the environment in which we operate. Now we don't have a lot of choice about that, and if it's going to change -- broadly change -- probably the only way it would happen is the federal government."
Recruits training at the new East Falmouth Police Academy earlier this year were mentally and physically tormented, denied bathroom breaks, and forced into grueling outdoor exercises - often without proper gear for the below-freezing temperatures, according to a new state report.
At around 10 a.m. on Oct. 18, a hunter who was "deep in the Freetown State Forest" made a 911 call "that indicated the discovery of skeletal remains," the office of Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn said in a press release. Police who responded were directed to a Honda Accord that was far into the forest off of an access road, the DA said.
Pacheco faces several charges, including second-degree hindering prosecution-a Class E felony-two counts of official misconduct, and two counts of second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, both of which are Class A misdemeanors. The first charge, which is the most serious, accuses Pacheco of rendering criminal assistance to a person who has committed a Class B or Class C felony. According to the Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira police chief Kristen Thorne was informed in July of Pacheco's alleged unauthorized release of sensitive information regarding an ongoing investigation.
An initial investigation determined the bicyclist, a man in his 80s, was traveling southbound in the bicycle lane when he moved into the traffic lanes and was hit by a 2022 Mercedes-Benz, police said. The bicyclist suffered a major head injury in the crash, police said, adding that he was wearing a helmet at the time. He was taken to an area hospital, where he later died.
The 15th floor of a parking garage in Westchester County appeared to suddenly collapse on Wednesday, damaging a number of cars parked on the floor below. No injuries were reported in the collapse at the White Plains garage near South Broadway. Primary searches were negative, according to the Yonkers fire department. A photo from the scene shows an upper floor leaning diagonally onto the floor below it, crushing vehicles in the process.
Four people have been killed and 16 others injured in a shooting in western Mississippi during a high school football homecoming celebration, according to local officials early on Saturday. The incident took place around midnight on Friday, John Lee, the mayor of Leland, a small city in Washington county, said to the Guardian in a telephone interview on Saturday morning. At least 12 of the wounded were being treated at nearby hospitals.
A teenage boy is in a critical condition after he was shot in north London. The Metropolitan Police was called to High Road, in Arnos Grove, at 17:40 BST on Thursday to reports of a shooting. A 17-year-old was treated at the scene for serious injuries and taken to hospital.