While walking on railroad tracks near their school, two teenagers were struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Delaware County yesterday morning. The girls, reported as at Interboro Senior High School students Gina Gentile and Vanessa Dorwart, from Glenolden, were supposed to be in class at the time of the 10:30 incident. A third girl was with them when the accident occurred, reports say. She was uninjured. The incident happened on a cold morning amid the snow of a…
Hockey broadcaster Ron MacLean helped save a man from drowning in the Delaware River last month. The incident started when a woman raced into a hotel restaurant where MacLean was having lunch, shouting for help, Explaining frantically to the broadcaster that a person was drowning, MacLean leapt from his seat, took a velvet rope that separated diners in the restaurant and ran down to the water. Somebody else was already in the water helping the man out. Reportedly, the drowning…
Houston police are continuing to investigate a fatal traffic accident that occurred at 4200 Tidwell about 2:25 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28th. The accident occurred as the victim was operating his motorcycle, a black Yamaha, westbound on Tidwell at a high rate of speed. As he changed lanes in an attempt to pass another vehicle, the victim lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a telephone phone. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the victim,…