East Palestine's historic freight depot is being transformed into a Black Diamond Distillery restaurant, with the business expected to open in spring. Read More

The village's vacant freight depot is being transformed into a Black Diamond Distillery, adding a new attraction to the village's recovery. Read More

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) - Robert '?Bob'? E. Hacker, 83, passed away October 5, 2026, at Covington Skilled Nursing and Rehab in East Palestine. Bob was born June 5, 1943, in Beaver Falls, ... Read More

The research that serves us is exactly the kind of work that could land on a veto list. Read More

A whistleblower alleges she was pressured to report '?zeros'? and conceal animal deaths after the 2023 East Palestine derailment. The testing company denies the allegations. Read More

Newly released environmental testing presented at an East Palestine town hall found dioxins and carcinogenic hydrocarbons above health screening levels at numerous locations, raising new questions ... Read More

After NewsNation obtained those results and interviewed Petty, he made clear the findings cannot be dismissed. Read More

Mayor Trent Conaway reacted to Jed York's arrest by saying his town hadn't had as much excitement since a 2023 train derailment brought national attention. Read More

CLEVELAND - Attorneys for Norfolk Southern Corporation have asked a federal court to pause several ongoing lawsuits linked to the Feb. 3, 2023, train derailment in East Palestine. The railroad ... Read More

Donald Trump is urging Republicans to vote for the bipartisan Railway Safety Act, originally introduced after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine. Read More

Norfolk Southern railroad's first-quarter profit fell 27% because it didn't collect big insurance payments related to the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and its planned merger with Union Pacific ... Read More

Ethics documents show the agency found '?a compelling need'? to let Anne Vogel participate in sample and data analysis of the disaster site. Read More

More than three years following the toxic derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, residents who agreed to accept payments from a $120 million '?voluntary exposure'? ... Read More

A freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, triggered one of the most widely discussed industrial incidents in recent years. What began as a mechanical issue quickly escalated into a ... Read More

When the February 2023 train derailment in the small village of East Palestine, Ohio became one of the state's biggest disasters, it quickly became about health hazards, lawsuits, blame and ... Read More

(NewsNation) - After a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2023, the federal government sued the company and agreed on a deal to cover cleanup costs and provide health ... Read More

Three years after the East Palestine derailment, the Railway Safety Act of 2025 remains under consideration and may become a part of the reauthorization. Read More

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, sending 38 cars off the tracks - including five carrying vinyl chloride, a hazardous chemical. As fires burned ... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent notice to a company for what the EPA classified as a failure to maintain data quality standards in groundwater sampling conducted at the East ... Read More

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted says the people of East Palestine '?have not been forgotten'? after the 2023 train derailment. Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Sen. Jon Husted said the people of East Palestine '?have not been forgotten'? after the 2023 train derailment. He's sponsoring the Railway Safety Act to address that he believes ... Read More

Safety lessons learned from the East Palestine train derailment may soon make it into Pennsylvania's rule books more than three years after the accident devastated rural communities bordering central ... Read More

More than three years after a disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Congress has continued to sit on its hands rather than upset its friends in the railroad industry by implementing ... Read More

More than three years after a disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Congress has continued to sit on its hands rather than upset its friends in the railroad industry by implementing desperately ... Read More

More than three years after a disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Congress has continued to sit on its hands rather than upset its friends in the railroad industry by implementing ... Read More

More than three years after a disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Congress has continued to sit on its hands rather than upset its friends in the railroad industry by implementing desperately ... Read More

Three years after the East Palestine train derailment, Congress looks to take another shot at rail safety legislation. Read More

Safety lessons learned from the East Palestine train derailment may soon make it into Pennsylvania's rule books more than three years after the accident devastated rural communities bordering central ... Read More

In a Washington Examiner exclusive, Salena Zito speaks with the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, a village devastated by a train derailment three years ago. Read More

President Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration is giving East Palestine, Ohio, a $10 million grant to help the town recover economically from a toxic train derailment that took place ... Read More

Micah Barnes allegedly backed into multiple police vehicles before driving toward the Pennsylvania-Ohio state line and into Beaver County. Read More

The two men crashed into multiple police cars and attempted to flee, according to the East Palestine Police Department. Read More

Lawyers flocked to East Palestine after a toxic train derailment, winning a $600 million settlement. Case closed? Not even close. Read More

After years of questions, the focus is now turning toward long-term data and answers. 7 News shows us what comes next for East Palestine following the historic train derailment three years ago. Last ... Read More

It's been three years since a Norfolk Southern '?bomb train'? carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, OH, on the night of Feb. 3, 2023. Three days later, Norfolk Southern ... Read More

This story was originally published by The Allegheny Front, a public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania. Listen to the radio version of the piece below. February 3, ... Read More

Nearly three years after a catastrophic train derailment, East Palestine residents are still fighting for justice and compensation as legislative efforts contin ... Read More

Last year, AAR said freight rail carriers themselves trained at least 30,000 first responders. Some of the major players, including CSX, even take hazmat simulator trains on the road to give emergency ... Read More

The five residents appealing the East Palestine train derailment class-action settlement were a day late and $850,000 short, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled last week. The ... Read More

The five residents appealing the East Palestine train derailment class action settlement were a day late and $850,000 short, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled on Wednesday. The ... Read More

Attorneys representing a group of East Palestine residents who want out of the multimillion-dollar Norfolk Southern train derailment settlement that they opted-in, doubled down on claims class counsel ... Read More

U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson approved a revised process for addressing allegations against Kroll Settlement Administrator in the East Palestine train derailment class action settlement. The ... Read More

East Palestine residents gathered to hear an update on research being conducted at various universities on the public health impacts of the accident. Read More

In the months and years after East Palestine's train derailment, researchers from five universities started studies on the environmental and health effects. Those researchers presented their findings ... Read More

Researchers from several universities and officials from federal and local public health agencies will gather tonight to update the community on ongoing studies into the health and environmental impac ... Read More

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - A Western Pennsylvania doctor has been arrested in Ohio as part of a human trafficking sting, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced. Dr. Robert Zewe, Jr., 50, of Erie, ... Read More

On a frigid February night in 2023, a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. For days, the train's hazardous contents spilled into the surrounding soil, water and air ... Read More

University of Kentucky scientists received $1.8 million through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) East Palestine, Ohio, Train Derailment Health ... Read More

A Concert for Our Neighbors will be held from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Rochester Riverfront Park on Water Street. Ohio Valley Derailment Mutual Aid is sponsoring the event in partnership with Food & ... Read More

This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo / Gene J. Puskar, File) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio ... Read More

More than 100 people who live in and around East Palestine, Ohio, say they were tricked into joining a $600 million Norfolk Southern settlement after the derailment disaster in 2023. Read More

Youngstown, introduced two public utility reform bills - one in response to Ohio's largest public corruption scandal and the other resulting from the 2023 East Palestine train derailment disaster. One ... Read More

Youngstown, introduced two public utility reform bills - one in response to Ohio's largest public corruption scandal and the other resulting from the 2023 East Palestine train derailment disaster. One ... Read More

Site restoration activities are complete, and the associated particulate air monitoring has concluded in accordance with approved plans.' ... Read More

Norfolk Southern has completed restoration activities at the East Palestine train derailment site and will continue to monitor groundwater, sediments, and drinking water, with no human health ... Read More

Two years after a train carrying dangerous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, many people still haven't been able to return to their homes near the spill. Read More

The law firm appealing the way legal fees were divided among attorneys who helped broker last year's $600 million settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents impacted by the 2023 train ... Read More

Norfolk Southern continues to maintain it compensated East Palestine Schools for any and all damages caused by the 2023 train derailment, according to the latest court filings in the case brought ... Read More

The quiet town of East Palestine, Ohio, became a household name after a train derailment unleashed a chemical catastroph ... Read More

After the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, the village made several strides toward improving disaster response. The village updated its fire trucks fleet to include a million dollar ladder ... Read More

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) and major depression have been found in residents of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia as direct effects of the 2023 East Palestine train derailment, a new ... Read More

The appeal of last year's $600 million settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents impacted by the Feb. 3, 2023, derailment and chemical spill is dead in the water, a brief filed in Cincinnati's ... Read More

Recent high-profile derailments, including the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio disaster, have kept public attention focused on railroad safety standards. Read More

An update of the clean-up of the 2023 train derailment turned into a plea to acknowledge the rail disaster's impact on public health, as resident Jami Wallace pushed back at the federal Environmental ... Read More

The appeal of last year's $600 million settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents impacted by the 2023 derailment and chemical spill is dead in the water, a brief filed in Cincinnati's Sixth ... Read More

A whistleblower group has claimed that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) helped Norfolk Southern Railway manipulate soil testing data after the catastrophic 2023 train derailment in East ... Read More

A routine freight run turned into an environmental nightmare when a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Explosive chemicals, botched responses, and rising public outrage made this ... Read More

The five residents appealing the final approval of last year's $600 million settlement between the Norfolk Southern and households impacted by the 2023 train derailment, continue to fight for a ... Read More

Another lawsuit that links a death to the 2023 East Palestine train derailment was recently filed in federal court. The estate of Cheryl Roush filed suit against the railroad on Monday in Youngstown's ... Read More

Another lawsuit that links a death to the 2023 East Palestine train derailment was recently filed in federal court. The estate of Cheryl Roush filed suit against the railroad on Monday in Youngstown's ... Read More

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio - A new report from the Government Accountability Project alleges that both Norfolk Southern and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) manipulated soil testing after the 2023 ... Read More

A new report alleges that soil samples following the 2023 fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio were manipulated by the EPA and Norfolk Southern. KDKA's Jessica Riley spoke with residents ... Read More

Mayor Trent Conaway took the podium at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday to discuss the response to the Feb. 3, 2023 Ohio train derailment from former President Trump and ... Read More

Eight residents of East Palestine and nearby areas who opted out of the $600 million Norfolk Southern derailment settlement have filed a lawsuit against the railroad, seeking damages for the train der ... Read More

The whistleblower group Government Accountability Project uncovered a letter they say allegedly proves negligence in testing for contaminated soil at the site of the crash. Read More

After a train carrying chemicals derailed and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in 2023, residents were exposed to carcinogens such as vinyl chloride, acrolein and dioxin. Since tumors are ... Read More

It took long enough, but about a month ago, federal officials announced there are finally plans for long-term study of the possible health outcomes after the February 2023 train derailment in East ... Read More

More than a year after the train derailment, East Palestine residents came together to celebrate the village's 150th anniversary with a day full of pride, resilience, and small-town tradition. Read More

Norfolk Southern has asked a federal court to dismiss several claims made by the East Palestine City School District in a lawsuit stemming from the February 2023 train derailment. Read More

The university's study, funded by a $50,000 state grant, will use artificial intelligence to look at the toxic, fiery derailment two years ago in East Palestine. Read More

The NIH will fund research on the long-term health effects of a 2023 Ohio train derailment on residents of East Palestine, Ohio. Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced a '?multi-disciplinary, community-focused series of studies'? to better understand the implications of the 2023 Norfolk Southern train ... Read More

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a five-year, $10 million initiative to research the long-term health effects of the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Read More

It took long enough, but last week federal officials announced there are finally plans for long-term study of the possible health outcomes after the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine. Read More

Last week federal officials announced there are finally plans for long-term study of the possible health outcomes after the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The National ... Read More

NIH to fund $10M in studies on East Palestine train derailment's long-term health effects; application deadline is July 21. Read More

The funding comes at the urging of Vice President JD Vance, who said the 'historic research initiative will finally result in answers that this community deserves.' ... Read More

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (WKBN) - The new administrator handling claims in the East Palestine train derailment settlement lawsuit has temporarily suspended the deadline for appeals for those who have ... Read More

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, report continuing health problems two years after the Norfolk Southern train crash. Read More