(Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 30, 2012)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — An 8 1/2-year legal battle between the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad and the families of four young people killed in a 2003 car-train crash in Anoka is over. Relatives of the victims confirmed Monday that they received $29.1 million from the railroad in a settlement in late March, initiated the day after the Minnesota Supreme Court denied the railroad’s appeal for a new trial.
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