Washington, D.C.

Shots fired at train

Shots were fired Thursday at an Amtrak train carrying 167 passengers from Newport News, Va., to Washington, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. Two bullets hit the locomotive but no one was injured.

The engineer of Amtrak train No. 76 reported hearing shots about 4 p.m. as the train was traveling through Richmond, Va., spokeswoman Karina Van Veen said. The crew checked the train in Richmond and found nothing wrong, but a more thorough check in Washington revealed two bullet holes in the window of the locomotive.

The passengers were not aware of the shooting, Van Veen said. The engineer sits on the right side of the locomotive, and the bullet holes were in the left window.

Florida

Rover launch delayed

NASA again pushed back the launch of the latest Mars rover, this time until Sunday, so replacement cork insulation has more time to adhere to the aluminum rocket body.

The launch of the rover Opportunity, which had been set for Saturday, is now planned for 9:43 p.m. Sunday.

The space agency has delayed the launch several times in the past two weeks because of problems with the cork insulation and weather in the Cape Canaveral area.

NASA set July 15 as a deadline to launch Opportunity, but it is studying whether it could extend that by two days before Mars and Earth move too far apart for the spacecraft to reach the red planet, deputy mission manager Mark Adler said Thursday.