After the death of Osama bin Laden, plans for an attack on U.S. railways were reportedly found in his Pakistani hideout. U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., warned residents to be concerned about a possible attack on Sept. 11 or holidays. 

“All of our systems need to be on high alert, and all of our citizens need to be on high alert,” Lieberman said of the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Lieberman, a Stamford resident, is chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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A late-morning fire beneath a New York City railway bridge that temporarily halted service has been put out and service has returned to normal for commuters.

The transformer fire started late Monday morning under the 138th Street bridge over the Harlem River. Service on the New Haven Line, as well as the Hudson and Harlem lines, was suspended at 11:45 a.m. but restored by about 2:40 p.m. with scattered delays of up to 15 minutes. Trains approaching Manhattan and the south Bronx had been held at the nearest station. Commuters had been told to use subway service to the Bronx to get ...