L.A. rail probe seeks cell phone info as commute resumes

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- Federal rail investigators said Monday they would go to court to get an engineer's cell phone records to determine if he was text messaging when his commuter train slammed head-on into a freight locomotive, killing 25 people.

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