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No Charges for Amtrak Engineer in Derailment

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Prosecutors couldn’t find evidence of “conscious disregard.”

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An Amtrak engineer will not be charged in the 2015 derailment of a train outside Philadelphia that resulted in eight deaths and hundreds of injuries.

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