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  • Metrolink conductor raised concerns about engineer's cellphone use (Los Angeles Times)The attorney for the only surviving crew member in the deadly Chatsworth crash says his client told NTSB investigators that he had complained to a supervisor about it. The only Metrolink crew member to survive the Chatsworth rail disaster told federal investigators that he had previously complained to a supervisor about improper on-duty cellphone use by the engineer who crashed the commuter ...


  • Former Davis-Besse engineer sentenced to probation, fines (The Toledo Blade)Former Davis-Besse engineer Andrew Siemaszko was sentenced Friday to three years probation and ordered to pay $4,500 in fines for his role in the Ottawa County nuclear plant?s massive cover-up in the fall of 2001 that government prosecutors have called one of the most significant in the nation?s nuclear history. Siemaszko was one of only two individuals convicted. Both could have received five ...


  • Franklin city engineer gets raise after pr case (The Tennessean)FRANKLIN ? Two months ago, city engineer David Parker faced a crossroads.


  • Engineer's Cell Use Reported Before Fatal L.A. Crash (Fox News)The conductor aboard the commuter train that collided with a freight in Los Angeles said he warned a supervisor about the engineer's on-duty cell phone use before the deadly wreck.


  • New deadline for kidnapped Polish engineer (UPI) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The kidnappers of a Polish engineer abducted in Pakistan have given the government more time to grant their demands, Dawn reported.


  • Conductor told supervisor of engineer's cell use (San Francisco Chronicle)The conductor aboard the Metrolink train that collided with a freight last September warned a supervisor about the engineer's on-duty cell phone use months before the deadly wreck, his attorney said Thursday. Conductor Robert Heldenbrand recently told...


  • Retired engineer wins citizenship and service award (The Mooresville Tribune)Bruce Forrest, a retired engineer in the telecommunications industry, has been given this year's Duke Citizenship and Service Award for leading the effort to create an animal shelter in North Mecklenburg.