An 18-year-old high school senior who appeared not to hear the horn of an approaching train because he was wearing headphones was killed Monday as he was walking on railroad tracks in Polk County. ...more

October 21, 2009

Authorities say a 49-year-old Orlando woman was struck and killed by a train while trying to cross the tracks. ...more

February 28, 2009

A mother and her two children managed to get out of their immobilized car just before it was hit by an Amtrak train Jan. 23. ...more

February 4, 2009

No one was hurt Monday night when an Amtrak train carrying 105 passengers crashed into a truck stopped at the railroad tracks along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Dover, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

August 26, 2008

No one was hurt tonight when an Amtrak train carrying 105 passengers crashed into a truck stopped at the railroad tracks along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Dover, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

August 25, 2008

The high price of fuel is a huge threat to Florida tourism and the state's overall economic growth. ...more

June 29, 2008

As passengers settle into the wide, reclining seats, the train pulls out of Union Station at the edge of downtown Tampa. ...more

June 22, 2008

Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after a judge refused to throw out his 1992 no-contest plea to fraud. ...more

January 5, 2008

An Amtrak train was going about 25 mph over the speed limit moments before it hit a stationary freight train on the city's South Side, injuring dozens of people, federal officials said Sunday. ...more

December 3, 2007

An Amtrak train plowed into the back of a freight train and crushed one end of a boxcar under its wheels Friday, injuring dozens of people, some seriously. Most of the 187 passengers walked away unhurt. ...more

December 1, 2007