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ministration doesn't approve the pipeline, his company will look to build rail terminals in Alberta and Oklahoma. Girling called pipelines "by far a safer alternative" to oil trains, but said if customers want him to build rail terminals, he will.
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Man gets 4 1/2 years for Vermillion tax scam
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A man who ran a tax refund scam with several members of the USD football team has been sentenced.
• The U.S. attorney's office says 23-year-old Charlie Frank Adams, of Tampa, Fla., was sentenced to 4 1/2 years conspiracy to defraud the US and aggravated identity theft.
• Adams and 10 others were indicted on those charges and Adams earlier pleaded guilty.
• He was also ordered to pay the IRS and ID theft victims nearly $422,000.
• Prosecutors say Adams used personal information of other people to file bogus income tax returns showing refunds due.
• Several of his co-defendants attended the University of South Dakota in Vermillion and are former members of the football team.
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Accidents involving trains transporting crude oil
The Associated Press
• Accident investigation boards in the U.S. and Canada are calling for tougher regulation of trains carrying crude oil, warning that an accident in a populated area could cause a "major loss of life," as well as significant property and environmental damage. Worries about shipping crude oil by train have been heightened by recent accidents:
• -- Jan. 20: Seven CSX train cars, six of them containing oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota, derailed on a bridge over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The bridge is near the University of Pennsylvania, a highway and three hospitals. No oil was spilled and no one was injured. The train from Chicago was more than 100 cars long.
• -- Jan. 7: A 122-car Canadian National Railway train derailed in New Brunswick, Canada. Three cars containing propane and one car transporting crude oil from Western Canada exploded after the derailment, creating intense fires that burned for days. About 150 residents of nearby Plaster Rock were evacuated.
• -- Dec. 30, 2013: A fire engulfed tank cars loaded with oil on a Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train after a collision about a mile from Casselton, N.D. No one was (Continued on page 18)
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