D.C., Md. men charged with assaulting Amtrak conductor

A District man and a Maryland man are accused of assaulting a conductor and harassing other passengers on an Amtrak train that was traveling from Washington to Los Angeles.

Chadd M. Mason, 22, of White Plains, Md., and 23-year-old Valentino D. Richardson, of D.C., were taken into custody at a station southeast of Pittsburgh, in Connellsville, Pa., the Uniontown Herald-Standard reports.