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By Ryan Clark
 In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, a lot of rail passengers are wondering how safe passenger rail is in 2016 and what officials are doing to maintain that safety. While there has always been an air of unease about travel in this new post-9/11 era, most of the attention has always been given to the airline industry. Overly intrusive TSA agents and airport safety procedures have become annoying to even the most infrequent fliers. But what about the railways?
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Emergency Management
New identification tags used locally and statewide should aid in tracking by simply scanning ID badges and using key ring tags to organize where responders should go.
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Government Technology
A new study by the University of Washington's Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation Laboratory shows that ignoring the problem won't get you anywhere and that a simple statement from an official can turn the tides on rumors gone viral.
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Yahoo News
A new U.S. government task force will look into the country's biggest ever accidental release of methane, which occurred over several months in Los Angeles, hoping to prevent future leaks of the potent greenhouse gas from storage wells, the Obama administration said.
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Governing
Beginning in the 1990s, a slew of states started enacting graduated driver licensing laws to make teens gain experience behind the wheel and better learn the rules of the road before becoming fully licensed drivers. Now, a recent study suggests those laws have yielded another benefit: fewer teens being arrested for nontraffic-related crimes.
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Columbia Missourian
A committee formed after a string of pedestrian accidents in Columbia has recommended that the city implement a zero-tolerance approach toward pedestrian safety and consider other measures, such as lower speed limits and red-light cameras.
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FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today finalized a new food safety rule under the landmark FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that will help to prevent food contamination during transportation. The rule will require those involved in transporting human and animal food by motor or rail vehicle to follow recognized best practices for sanitary transportation, such as properly refrigerating food, adequately cleaning vehicles between loads and properly protecting food during transportation.
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Grand Forks Herald
The latest round of data released by the Federal Aviation Administration detailing sightings of unmanned aircraft by pilots and air traffic controllers shows no new reports in North Dakota.
Despite earning a reputation of being an up and coming hub for unmanned aircraft systems technology, sightings in the state have been rare since the FAA began tracking such reports in December 2013, logging only two reports — one each in Grand Forks and Fargo — in the timeframe.
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KABC-TV
The mother of Paul Lee, a student with special needs who died after being left unattended on a Whittier school bus, urged lawmakers to approve a new law to prevent such tragedies.
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Bloomberg
Former coal baron Donald Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison for evading mine-safety rules in one of the final chapters of a fatal mine explosion that was the worst U.S. coal industry accident in almost 40 years.
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KTRS-AM
Medical marijuana products in Illinois would be required to carry warning labels about possible side effects under a bill proposed by a Republican lawmaker.
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