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U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 20, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- An explosion and fire caused part of a three-story apartment building's roof to collapse early Thursday, but it was unclear if anyone was injured, officials said. Firefighters were walking inside the charred rubble in the building, picking up burnt woo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

FOX News -- More than 200 firearms enthusiasts — most of them openly armed — packed a normally sedate government building Thursday night, hoping to win a pistol or rifle and at the same time send a defiant message to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and othe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:16pm neoform

CNN -- A hostage situation at an office building on the sprawling campus of Johnson Space Center ended Friday with the gunman and a hostage dead, a police spokesman said. Houston Police Capt. Dwayne Ready said that a second hostage was found taped up but othe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:57pm neoform

CNN -- The city's planning board has endorsed a proposal for a twisting lakefront tower that would become the nation's tallest building. With Thursday's approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, the design and site plan for the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire goes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Washington Post -- An outburst of gunfire at a Virginia Tech dormitory, followed two hours later by a ruthless string of attacks at a classroom building, killed 32 students, faculty and staff and left about 30 others injured yesterday in the deadliest shooting rampage in th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 2:08pm neoform

Reuters -- A Missouri college was closed down on Tuesday after a student claiming to have a bomb and anthrax threatened to destroy a building on campus, school and law enforcement officials said. Twenty-three people, including nine faculty and students from the U.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- Plans to demolish the building where a gunman killed five Northern Illinois University students have been scrapped after the university community overwhelmingly opposed it, the school's president said Tuesday. It was also apparent, however, that the co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 21, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A massive warehouse fire early Monday spread to a three-story building behind the structure, and a large section of one of the buildings collapsed. The cause of the fire was unknown, and fire marshals were unable to get inside, Philadelphia Fire Depart.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 17, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- A homeless man attempting to steal copper wire from a vacant commercial building in San Jose on Friday got a big surprise when a police officer happened upon the crime scene, authorities said today. Kai Ben Pabst, 43, was arrested on suspicion of burgl.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco officials are working with the owners of a Mission Street building that burned for more than 18 hours to determine when and how the structure will be demolished, authorities said. The building at 1133 Mission St. caught fire sometime befo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 25, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

MSNBC -- Reconstruction is so rife with corruption. Sometimes people ask me, ‘Should I do this?’ And my answer is no. If they’re married, they’ll lose their family. They will lose their jobs. They will lose everything,” Weaver said. They have been fir.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Bloomberg defended the department’s decision to send more than 100 firefighters up into the building to fight the blaze, saying they bravely improvised in a crisis situation. Firefighters Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia died of smoke inhalation.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 1:52pm neoform

MSNBC -- A seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandoned skyscraper next to ground zero in Lower Manhattan Saturday, killing two firefighters who were responding to the blaze. Officers at the scene were preventing nearby residents from returning to their homes,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 4:45pm neoform

FOX News -- The pace of U.S. home construction fell 2.1 percent in May to a lower rate than analysts had expected for the lifeless housing market while building permit activity, a signal of future building plans, increased more than anticipated, a government report s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- Fire swept through a furniture warehouse, collapsing the building's roof and claiming the lives of nine firefighters in a disaster the mayor described Tuesday as "difficult to fathom or quantify." "Nine brave, heroic, courageous firefighters of the cit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:52pm neoform

FOX News -- A suspicious package that closed the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., and forced. Washington, D.C., Metro Police to block off a four-street radius for two hours on Thursday turned out to be a dirty diaper. Alan Etter, spokesman for the D.C.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 2:21pm neoform

FOX News -- A fire at the WABC-TV studios in Manhattan knocked out Sunday night's programming and caused the evacuation of the television network's building. Channel 7's Sunday night broadcast was suspended a few minutes before the 11 p.m. news. The broadcast cove.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 2:04pm neoform

Washington Post -- Fairfax County's residential building inspectors carry workloads that exceed their ability to do their jobs competently, according to a firm that evaluates government inspection programs for insurance companies. The Insurance Services Office, a New Jer.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 5:00pm neoform

CNN -- A gunman opened fire Monday inside a suburban Detroit office building, killing one person and injuring two others, according to Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell. Local television reports said the person killed was a woman and two men were injured... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform

CNN -- A gunman opened fire on three people inside a suburban Detroit office building Monday morning, killing one and injuring the others, police said. A spokeswoman for Beaumont Hospital, Ilene Wolfe, said the two wounded victims were both men but she had no.. Read More