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Lawmakers investigating September's deadly New Jersey Transit train crash could finally get a chance to question the top agency officials who skipped out on an oversight hearing last month.

New Jersey lawmakers investigating last month's fatal train crash in Hoboken are keeping the pressure on state transportation officials, demanding answers to questions on finances and safety they say weren't adequately addressed at a hearing last week.

The railroad whose rush-hour train slammed into a New Jersey station last month, killing a woman and injuring more than 100 people, has had more accidents and paid more in fines for safety violations than any other commuter railroad in the country over the past five years, federal safety data show.

The family of a New Jersey teenager struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train last summer is challenging the ruling that her death was a suicide.

New Jersey Transit is due to present a proposed $2.1 billion operating budget for the coming fiscal year that doesn't include any fare increases.

New Jersey Transit says an engineer who made headlines when a TV station revealed he had been driving trains while his motor vehicle license was suspended for repeated drunken driving is no longer driving locomotives.

New Jersey Transit's director defended the use of audio surveillance systems on some of its trains Tuesday, as some questioned the monitoring's legal and ethical underpinnings.

Some rail workers unions are poised to vote on a tentative agreement they reached with New Jersey Transit last weekend.

Union officials say New Jersey Transit rail workers are prepared to strike if the agency doesn't improve on an offer they say would increase health premiums by hundreds of dollars per month.

A labor board created to fix a longtime dispute between New Jersey Transit and its workers says the agency's unionized rail employees should receive a pay raise.