COURTLAND, Ala. — The body of 20-year-old Mississippi college student who drowned while fishing in Lawrence County was found Friday, authorities said. Simeon Gray was pulled from Spring Creek in the area that search and rescue K-9s teams indicated they had a hit. When searchers were certain they could retrieve Gray's body, Gray's family was cleared from the bridge where they had been watching the rescue operations since Wednesday night. Gray's father identified his son, according to Lawrence County Coroner Scott Norwood. He said the cause of death will be accidental drowning. Tracking dogs from HEMSI Search and Rescue in Huntsville were instrumental in narrowing down the search area. The K-9 search and rescue team is specially trained in water searches. Time was at a premium for finding Gray because the Tennessee Valley Authority, who had closed the dam gates to make it easier to search for Gray, saw a fast rise in the depth of the creek and the gates may not have been able to stay closed. Gray and his four friends had gone fishing after Gray had returned home from Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville, Miss., The Decatur Daily reported (http://bit.ly/14bm6RB ). Gray had been moving hand-over-hand across the creek using concrete supporting underneath the Lawrence County Road 400 bridge span when he slipped and fell into swift currents, according to Norwood. Norwood said that foul play had been ruled out. Gray couldn't swim, Norwood said. He was wearing fishing boots that would have filled immediately with water. His friends and others fishing at the creek attempted a rescue, but were unable to find Gray.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, injuring about 50 people, authorities said. There were no reports of fatalities. The Metro-North Railroad, a commuter line serving the northern suburbs, referred in a news release to a "major derailment" near Fairfield, just outside Bridgeport. It said emergency workers were at the scene of the accident, which came shortly after 6 p.m. Bill Kaempffer, a spokesman for Bridgeport public safety, told The Associated Press approximately 49 people were injured, including four with serious injuries. About 250 people were on board the two trains, he said. Photos taken at the scene showed a train car askew on the rails, with its end smashed up and brushing against another train. Amtrak suspended service indefinitely between New York and Boston. "At this stage, we don't know if this is a mechanical failure, an accident or something deliberate," Fairfield police spokesman Lt. James Perez told the Connecticut Post. The railroad said a train that departed New York City's Grand Central station en route to New Haven derailed. A westbound train on an adjacent track then struck the derailed train. Some cars on the second train also derailed as a result of the collision. Bridgeport Police Chief Joseph Gaudett said everybody who needed treatment had been attended to, and authorities were beginning to turn their attention to investigating the cause. "Everybody seemed pretty calm," he said. "Everybody was thankful they didn't get seriously hurt. They were anxious to get home to their families." The Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates the Metro-North Railroad, the second-largest commuter railroad in the nation. The Metro-North main lines — the Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven — run northward from New York City's Grand Central Terminal into suburban New York and Connecticut.