New Jersey
HOBOKEN, N.J. – One data recorder recovered so far from the New Jersey Transit commuter train that crashed in Hoboken killing one and injuring more than 100 others was not functioning on the day of the accident, officials said Sunday. The locomotive’s recorder is supposed to store information on train speed.
National Transportation Safety Board vice chair T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said Sunday afternoon that she’s “hopeful” the data recorder in the cab control car in the front of the train is functional. Investigators haven’t been able to extract that recorder because it's under a collapsed section of the train station’s roof.
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Curt Schilling, whose political outspokenness led ESPN to fire him in the spring, is continuing to talk about a future in politics. One possibility? The Massachusetts Senate seat held by Elizabeth Warren.
“Oh, I'm serious about it,” the former major league pitcher told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto last week.
Schilling raised the possibility of challenging Warren back in August. “I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics,” he said on WRKO-AM.
Britain
LONDON – Conductor Neville Marriner, who led the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to become one of the world’s most-recorded classical music groups, has died, the academy said Sunday. He was 92.
Marriner, a violinist in the London Symphony Orchestra, joined with several other musicians in 1959 to form a chamber group, which was intended to perform without a leader. The group's mouthful of a name, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, was inspired by the church in central London where they performed.
The academy built its reputation with stylish performances of baroque and classical repertoire: Bach, Handel, Mozart and Haydn. From its beginnings, with 18 players, it grew to a full-size orchestra with an affiliated chorus, and it has made more than 500 recordings.
Columbia
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia’s peace deal with leftist rebels seemed headed to defeat as votes against the accord held a razor-thin edge in a national referendum Sunday, less than a week after it was signed in front of an audience of heads of states.
With more than 99 percent of polling stations reporting, 50.2 percent of ballots opposed the accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia while just 49.8 percent favored it – a difference of less than 60,000 votes out of a total of 13 million.
A few states where the “yes” vote was winning by a wide margin were still counting ballots, but as the hours passed the chances of reversing the result were fading. Pre-election polls had pointed to the “yes” vote winning by an almost 2-to-1 margin.
Associated Press
