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SEPTA Cars Return; Knife Murder Linked to Mental Health; PA Budgets 10M for Opiod Intervention

by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 08/04/16 12:35 pm | updated: 08/04/16 12:35 pm

SEPTA plans to return to a regular Regional Rail schedule by October. They are replacing defective parts on 120 Silverliner V rail cars, about a third of its fleet, at the end of this month and plans to return 10 cars to service every week until November 12th. SEPTA expects to have at least 40 rail cars leased from other agencies, though, which should allow it to return to a regular schedule in about two months, before all the Silverliner V cars are repaired. The 120 cars were almost all found to have cracks in equalizer beams, a part that transfers the weight of the car to the axles. The cracks could have posed a significant safety hazard if they hadn't been discovered by a SEPTA inspector.

The man who stabbed an American woman to death and injured five other people in London's Russell Square is a Norwegian of Somali origin, according to police. They have found no signs of radicalization as a motive and the victims were randomly selected. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said the investigation "increasingly points to this tragic incident as having been triggered by mental-health issues." He said the woman who died was American, and the five injured people are British, American, Israeli and Australian. None had life-threatening injuries. Two remain in a hospital, while three others have been discharged. Rowley said it appeared to be a "spontaneous attack and that the victims were selected at random." Detectives from the force's murder and terrorism squads interviewed the suspect, his family and witnesses and searched several properties, and found no evidence of radicalization, he said.

Pennsylvania is setting aside $10 million in new funding for early intervention for opioid addiction. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf will announce details of new funding in the state's budget for early-intervention programs to combat opioid addiction.

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