More remains found at WTC site
NEW YORK – Workers recovered more human remains Saturday from several manholes as the city began a new search for Sept. 11 victims.
The search was ordered after the surprise discovery of dozens of bones in an abandoned manhole this week.
Utility and city officials on Saturday hand-removed material from other manholes after tearing into the pavement on a service road along the site’s western edge. It was then sifted onsite by forensic officials for fragments of human remains, said Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler.
City officials said that about 15 more pieces of remains had been recovered, bringing the total to nearly 100 this week.
COLUMBUS, Ohio
OSU student killed by elevator
An Ohio State University student was killed after he was pinned by an elevator, authorities said.
Andrew Polakowski, 18, of Erie, Pa., was the last person in a group of students to enter the elevator on the third floor about 11:30 p.m. Friday when it unexpectedly began to descend with the doors open, said Rick Amweg, assistant chief of the campus police.
Polakowski, a freshman prebusiness major, was pinned when he tried to escape through a gap between the top of the elevator and the third floor, police said.
It wasn’t clear why the elevator descended with the doors open.
Polakowski had chest and abdominal injuries, and he died of mechanical asphyxia, said Franklin County Coroner Dr. Bradley Lewis.
NEW BRIGHTON, Pa.
Ethanol tankers derail, explode
Federal investigators arrived at a smoldering scene Saturday to piece together how two dozen ethanol tanker cars derailed and several exploded on a southwestern Pennsylvania bridge.
No one was injured late Friday when 23 cars from the train’s midsection derailed and nine caught fire on the half-mile long rail bridge over the Beaver River in New Brighton.
As tanker cars continued to burn late Saturday, National Transportation Safety Board officials said they would gather maintenance records and interview witnesses, including crew members of the Norfolk Southern train. The train – 89 tanker cars pulled by three locomotives – was traveling from Chicago to New Jersey.