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2 dead and more than 100 wounded: What happened during the South Carolina train collision

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Watch this timeline of the events following the deadly train crash in Cayce, South Carolina on February 4,2018.
Elliott Kline, a.k.a. Eli Mosley is a rising white supremacist leader. But a New York Times investigation found that his personal narrative — like much of the movement’s messaging — is built on deception.
A crash involving an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train in Cayce, South Carolina on February 4,2018,killed at least two people and injured more than 70.
A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in South Carolina has left at least two people dead and about 70 people injured. Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said the trains collided in Cayce around 02:45 AM on Sunday. Cahill couldn’t say if the two people killed were on the passenger train or the freight train. He said the injuries ranged from scratches to broken bones.
Two students were shot and wounded inside a classroom Thursday morning at Salvador B. Castro Middle School in Los Angeles. Police arrested a female student believed to be 12 years old and recovered a gun after the shooting, authorities said.
On the second day of disgraced ex-sports doctor Larry Nassar’s final sentencing hearing the father of one of the victim’s tried to attack Nassar. The man charged across the room but was quickly tackled by bailiff’s and lead from the courtroom. This hearing focuses on Nassar’s work with Twistars, an elite Michigan gymnastics club. More than 30 victims have given statements so far. During a similar hearing that ended last week, more than 150 girls and women came forward.
Handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, announced on Friday that he saw his shadow. Legend has it that if the furry rodent casts a shadow on February 2, Groundhog Day, expect six more weeks of winter-like weather.
California got a special show early Wednesday, January 31,2018 — an excellent view of the super blue blood moon and lunar eclipse, which hasn’t happened since 1866. Here’s a look at the moon setting over Shell Beach in SLO County, California.
A brazen thief was caught on home surveillance stealing a couple’s dog from outside their home in Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday, January 30,2018. The person was captured swiping Jaime Gastelle’s seven-month-old Shih Tzu, Zoe, from the front yard of her home. In the video, the thief can be seen driving past the house in a black pickup truck, before returning to pick up the dog. The suspect then takes the puppy to the truck and drives away. Shortly afterward, Gastelle’s neighbor can be seen walking over to ring Gastelle’s doorbell in a bid to alert her and her partner Yohann about the theft.
On Jan. 31,1958, at 10:48 p.m. EST, NASA’s Explorer 1 launched into space, hurtling into Earth’s orbit in seven and a half minutes. The next day’s front-page news declared that the United States was now officially in the Space Age.
Dan Schachner, host and referee of Animal Planet’s annual “Puppy Bowl,” says this season ups the ante with the addition of a sloth. “I’ve got a sloth as an assistant this year because I really needed help and I decided to make it as difficult as possible by getting the slowest animal on the planet to be my assistant. Because why not? Let’s up the comedy and the chaos, right?” said Schachner.
One person is dead and another is seriously injured after a train carrying GOP members collided with a truck Wednesday near Crozet, Va. No GOP members were hurt in the incident.
Sen. Marco Rubio defended President Donald Trump’s message of unity in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, even amid a divided Congress and America. “We should all be unified behind the common purpose of solving problems, even if we’re divided on the right way to solve them,” he said on Wednesday. He also expressed his support for the immigration proposal President Donald Trump laid out in his State of the Union address in Washington, D. C., on Tuesday night. “Those are ideas that Democrats have voted for in the past. Now, I imagine because it’s Donald Trump, they don’t want to support it.”
A woman flying from New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport on January 28 had her request to bring her emotional support animal on board declined by United Airlines – her support animal was a peacock. The Jet Set reported the woman purchased a second ticket for the animal and tried to board her flight, but was unsuccessful. This video shows the peacock standing on the shoulder of the passenger as she walks through the doors of the terminal. In a statement, United Airlines said the traveller was told three times prior to arriving at the airport that the animal “did not meet the guidelines,” yet she still tried to board with the peacock.
Mickey the golden retriever, from Rhode Island, watches the television intently as other dogs march in the Patriots’ Super Bowl rally.
An animatronic of Ursula, a character from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” kept on singing despite its head falling off at a Disney park in front of spectators.
Jen Selter, a fitness model who has amassed nearly 12 million Instagram followers, was kicked off an American Airlines flight Saturday night after a disagreement with a flight attendant.

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