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Oil leaking from a cargo ship that struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has spread throughout the bay and is threatening a majestic stretch of the California coastline, the Coast Guard said Thursday. Complete Story...
A bridge under construction in a new development in Dubai collapsed Thursday, killing seven workers and injuring 15, police said.
Oil that leaked from a cargo ship after it bumped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has closed five beaches and is washing up as far as 40 miles north of San Francisco, the Coast Guard said Thursday.
Two years ago, cities on the opposite sides of Biloxi Bay clashed over blueprints for a wider, taller bridge to replace a highway span demolished by Hurricane Katrina's storm surge.
A grand jury will not charge anyone in a police blockade that kept hundreds of evacuees from crossing a Mississippi River bridge on foot after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, authorities said Wednesday.
The crumpled steel beams and shattered concrete of the Interstate 35W bridge are gone from the Mississippi River. These days, it's the process of replacing the span that's in disarray.
Rescue workers pulled out two more bodies Sunday from the rubble of collapsed overpass in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi, increasing the death toll to six, an official said.
Officials closed a major Mississippi River bridge between Tennessee and Arkansas for nine hours Monday after a pier under a small approach span settled several inches overnight.
Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons.
Communist authorities have banned most state media from reporting on the deadly collapse of a bridge in southern China, with local officials punching and chasing reporters from the scene, reporters said Friday.
Just like Americans themselves, the nation's roads and bridges are carrying much more weight today.
President Bush signed legislation on Monday that directs $250 million to rebuild the Minnesota bridge that was destroyed in last week's deadly collapse.
After five exhausting days searching for victims of an interstate bridge collapse, rescue coordinators are turning to the Navy divers considered the best.
More than 100 cars and trucks and a school bus crawling bumper-to-bumper on a bridge that suddenly crashed into the Mississippi River seemed like a recipe for a massive death count. But on Friday came what this city's fire chief called a miraculous turn of events: the prospect that relatively few lives were lost.
Divers at a collapsed interstate bridge prepared Friday to resume a painstaking search that has found five bodies so far, though authorities lowered the number of missing, once feared as many as 30, to eight.
It was 5:40 p.m. when Melissa Hughes wrapped up work at the warehouse she manages. She piloted her red Ford Escort through the streets that lead to I-35W, eager to get home and see her 3-month-old daughter.
More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.
Governors around the nation scrambled Thursday to conduct bridge inspections, ordering engineers to review the safety of thousands of structures a day after a span over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis.
President Bush on Thursday offered his condolences to victims of the highway bridge collapse in Minneapolis and said the federal government would help ensure the 40-year-old span is rebuilt as soon as possible.
Dennis and Jamie Winegar were stuck in late rush-hour traffic when the Mississippi River bridge beneath them began to shake. Their nephew yelled, "It's an earthquake!"
An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday, pitching dozens of cars 60 feet into the water and killing at least seven people.
A construction worker who fell 50 feet when a highway overpass he was working on collapsed remained in serious condition Wednesday, as officials tried to determine what caused the structure to give way.
Fireworks displays launched from three points around the Mackinac Bridge capped a three-day 50th birthday celebration for one of the world's longest suspension bridges.
Because an ordinance intended to keep predators away from children made it nearly impossible for them to find housing, five convicted sex offenders are living under a noisy highway bridge with the state's grudging approval.
More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march — and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break political barriers.
At 8:30 am this morning, the Cosco Busan, an 810-foot container ship, collided with the base of one of the towers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while the ship was under the control of a Bar Pilot.
On Friday, Alaska decided the bridge really was going nowhere, officially abandoning the project in Ketchikan that became a national symbol of federal pork barrel spending.
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THE streets – or at least the bridges - of London really are being paved with gold – because the iconic Millennium Bridge has had a money-spinning makeover.
Acting on endorsements and pledges of land from the president of Yemen and the president of the African nation of Djibouti, a Dubai-based developer has tapped an American firm to build a bridge across the Red Sea.
Russian police have detained a 45-year-old municipal worker for stealing a bridge.
Recently inaugurated bridge collapsed in Karachi, Pakistan killing at least 2 ppl; photo included...
The bridge is designed to float gracefully on and under the water like a giant, elegant serpent anchored to the cities of Tarifa on the southern coast of Spain to Point Cires on the northern tip of Morocco.
The New York Times reports that the Golden Gate Bridge faces an $80 Million operating deficit over the next 5 years.
The lovers and the fishermen, the street kids and the cops, the veiled girls and the flower sellers, they all come at dusk to the bridge over the Nile, stealing kisses and tugging their lines, escaping the heat and hoping for magic, the boys whispering promises bigger than their …
A 21-mile bridge spanning the North Channel of the Irish Sea - from Galloway to Northern Ireland - has been proposed by a think tank.
Internal MnDOT documents reviewed by the Star Tribune reveal that last year bridge officials talked openly about the possibility of the bridge collapsing -- and worried that it might have to be condemned.
China's premier has called for a thorough investigation into the fatal collapse of a bridge in the south of the country, warning those responsible would "face the full force of the law".
The guy that is in charge of rebuilding the 35W bridge in MN was fired for his corrupt handling of the 'Big Dig' in Boston. You know the project, it was a little over a year ago it crushed a woman. J.
A bridge under construction as a tourist attraction in central China collapsed, killing at least 22 people and leaving 46 missing, China Central Television reported Tuesday.The official Xinhua News Agency said 64 people were rescued, including 22 who were injured when the 1,049-f …
BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 65 were missing after a bridge under construction in southern China collapsed, state media said on Tuesday, adding that 400 police had been sent to the scene to keep order.
It's a well-worn chestnut on both sides of the political aisle that President Bush first campaigned for the White House as a "uniter, not a divider." Certainly, he fulfilled that role immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The news media does a horrible job of reporting real news to us.
In the aftermath of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, officials from the National League of Cities(NLC) applaud quick congressional effort to make available $250 million to fund a portion of the cost of rebuilding the bridge, and are calling for more decisive action on the larger …
Among the dozens of wrenching accounts to come out of the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the actions of 20-year-old Jeremy Hernandez were a bright spot: Trapped in a tipping school bus with 50 children, he kicked open the back door and began helping them …
Jeremy Hernandez saved a group of school children at the bridge collapse and became a hero. After the news publicized the fact that he couldn't afford college, people start sending him donations and other help.
The collapse too adds to uneasy feelings among Somalis who say they have felt a federal backlash since Sept. 11, 2001 not only because of their Muslim faith but also because Somalia has been accused of harboring terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden.
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