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The Easter Bunny came to the rescue of a battered Hawthorne train station that's more than a century old this weekend. More than 1,600 parents and children packed a seven-car NJ Transit train Saturday for a ride on the "Easter Bunny Train." The bunny, along with Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat and Snoopy the Dog, visited with children during the 90-minute ride from the Glen Rock-Boro Hall Train Station to Suffern, N.Y., and back again. The train made three trips. The tickets cost $9 for children and $13 for everyone else. The proceeds from the sold-out train rides will go...

Terror accused told to kill 1,000, Australian court told Feb. 13, 2008 MELBOURNE (AFP) — A Muslim "terrorist organisation" was urged by their leader to target football matches or a train station in Australia in a bid to kill 1,000 people, a court heard Wednesday. A group of 12 men pleaded not guilty to a string of terrorism-related charges amid tight security in the Victorian Supreme Court. Their alleged leader, cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 47, had suggested during taped telephone calls that a bombing where the maximum loss of life could be inflicted, such as at a football ground, could...

Is the U.S. Failing in Afghanistan? It was malice in wonderland at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday as Bush Administration envoys insisted things are getting better in Afghanistan, while angry lawmakers from both parties cited facts and figures showing just the opposite. Even the senior Republican on the panel, Senator Richard Lugar, found the Administration's claims wanting. "I'm not sure that we have a plan for Afghanistan," he said. Long seen as the "forgotten war" eclipsed by Iraq in U.S. priorities, Afghanistan is in the Washington spotlight this week with the release of three independent reports concluding...

Shooting Massacre In German Town Updated: 07:02, Wednesday August 15, 2007 Six people have been shot dead in a west German town - all of them suffered bullet wounds to the head. Duisburg in western Germany Five bodies were found in two cars near the train station in Duisburg and a sixth person died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Police spokesman Hermann-Josef Helmich said police do not yet know who could have committed the killings or what the motive might have been. "A witness heard the shots and stopped a police patrol car which was incidentally...

22-year-old French woman says youths of Middle Eastern origin snatched her Star of David necklace, lifted her shirt and drew a swastika on her stomach Yael Branovsky Published: 04.26.07, 23:41 / Israel Jewish Scene A 22-year-old French woman said Thursday she was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack by two youths at an underground train station in Marseille. The youths, who the woman said were of Middle Eastern origin, snatched her Star of David necklace, then lifted her shirt and drew a swastika on her stomach before fleeing the scene. According to the Jewish Agency, the French police have refrained...

PARIS, France (AP) -- France's opposition Socialists accused conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy of worsening tension between youths and police on Wednesday after clashes at a Paris train station overnight. Local officials said the eight-hour long confrontation at the Gare du Nord was sparked when police arrested a 33-year old man who attacked staff who had asked him to show his ticket. Youths at the station, which is a hub for trains to suburbs north of Paris, said police had manhandled the suspect and broken his hand. Hundreds of youths threw flower pots and bottles at police, shouting "Sarkozy hypocrite"....

PARIS - Riot police firing tear gas and brandishing batons clashed Tuesday with bands of youths who shattered windows and looted shops at a major Paris train station, officials said. Nine people were arrested. Officials said about 100 people were involved in the melee at Gare du Nord, one of Paris' most important transport hubs. Officers and police dogs fired tear gas and charged at groups of marauding youths, some of them wearing hoods and swinging metal bars. The youths responded by throwing trash cans and other objects at the officers. A group of youths smashed the windows of a...

PARIS: Riot police firing tear gas and brandishing batons clashed Tuesday with bands of youths who shattered windows and looted shops at a major Paris train station. Officials said nine people were arrested. Officers and police dogs charged at groups of marauding youths, some of them wearing hoods, who mingled with commuters and travelers at the Gare du Nord — one of Paris' most important transport hubs. (snip) The violence did not appear directly related to France's presidential election in under four weeks, but highlighted the social and economic tensions that the country's new leader will inherit when he or...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, but India's Delhi Metro has hired a monkey to frighten off other monkeys from boarding trains and upsetting passengers. The langur monkey, trained since the age of three months, has been patrolling monkey-prone stations on a leash. In June, a monkey boarded a train at the underground Chawri Bazaar station and reportedly scared passengers by scowling at them for three stops. It then alighted at Civil Lines station. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation says it hopes the new hire will avert a repeat of that episode....

BERLIN'S NEW TRAIN STATION A Glass Armadillo for Germany's Capital By Frank Thadeusz Berlin's new main train station -- the biggest in Europe -- opens this week. The €700-million railway project has several innovations including extra quiet tracks and high-tech loudspeakers, but for many its construction remains contentious. Hany Azer's finest hour came on a humid summer night. The man in charge of building Berlin's new Central Station had promised an unprecedented construction spectacle that both the media and locals wanted to see. The chief engineer and his crew had to lower two massive girder towers, weighing no less than...

In exchange for a cup of coffee, Morristown Patrolman Vito Filomeno put up with my company early one morning last week as he monitored day laborers assembled along Morris Street, opposite Morristown's train station. Contrary to what the previous week's news stories had implied, there were no arrests. Essentially, Filomeno's job was twofold: 1) keep the workers curbside, rather than allowing them to block the sidewalk or lean against the façades of Morris Street businesses, and 2) ensure that anyone stopping to pick them up was in a parking space, not blocking a street or driveway.

Breaking.There are reports of a large explosion at a train station in northern North Korea, along the China-DPRK train line. This is the same line that Kim Jong il is taking to return to Pyongyang from Beijing today (last night US time). The explosion occured, 1 p.m. local, at a North Korean train station which is one Kim would have transited also today (yesterday local time). Reports coming in to Japanese news agencies. Could be LP gas, or could be something else.Link to Japanese Kyodo flash news on this story.http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20040422-00000242-kyodo-int

<p>NEW YORK (CNN) -- Police found at least five "bomb devices" in an early morning raid on a Brooklyn apartment Thursday, and arrested three men. Authorities are investigating the possibility that the case is related to Wednesday's two suicide bombings in Jerusalem that killed 15 people.</p>

Craftsman revives old wood with flame By Juliette Rule rep9@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - As Tony Carr walks through the Depot Center, he tells stories about a piece of local past now erased by his labor. But what he leaves behind is in keeping with the architectural traditions of the late 19th century train station, which has been the subject of intense restoration over the last year. Carr, 45, is a restoration painter, and his contracted task of the last seven months has been to erase the signs of abuse and neglect on wood-framed windows at the...

National Religious Party leader Effie Eitam said today that the murderous attack in Kfar Sava proves that only the total defeat of the Palestinian Authority will bring an end to terrorism. Eitam negated the opinion of those who say that Israel must refrain from retaliating against the attack in order not to disrupt the reforms in the PA. His government colleague, Infrastructures Minister Yosef Paritzky (Shinui), discounted such reactions from the "extremist right," and said, "we must carefully check whether Abu Mazen is making every effort to fight against terrorism." Yesha Council Chairman Adi Mintz spoke with Arutz-7 today and...