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January 16, 2007
Another Toxic Train Wreck, Oil Blast Update, Cellphone Fires, More: News Briefs

A train derailed this morning near Louisville, Ky., with the highly flammable chemical butadiene on board. Could this be a redux of the toxic train wreck in South Carolina we investigated last year?

After alarming new details emerged last fall about the Texas oil refinery disaster we also investigated, an independent panel led by former Secretary of State James Baker is now pushing BP to overhaul its safety procedures.

There's lots of chatter regarding global warming in Greenland today, but we’ve been watching that for a while now.

As if red-light cameras weren’t enough of a problem, now there’s some interesting legal wrangling over traffic-ticket software.

First the case of the exploding laptop, and now the pocket-ignited cellphone?

With the Golden Globes out of the way, Oscar season is upon us. Which high-tech movies will stand out?

NASA has picked 9/11 as its Hubble launch date for 2008, NASA Watch is reporting. More on NASA’s mission statement later today…. –Matt Sullivan

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