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U.S. / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Drivers crossing the Golden Gate Bridge will pay as much as $7 during the morning and evening commutes and on weekend and holiday afternoons if bridge directors approve a congestion-based toll unveiled Thursday. The district already plans to increase b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Three demonstrators scaled cables near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge today and unfurled banners intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet. The protest by Students for a Free Tibet came the day before the Olympic.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- Divers on Sunday found another body at the site of the Mississippi River bridge collapse, raising the official death toll to nine. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office identified the body as 20-year-old Richard Chit of St. Anthony. His mother, 50.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

Washington Post -- Divers pressed their search Thursday for victims of a catastrophic bridge collapse as dozens of distraught families awaited word on missing relatives and government officials began trying to determine what caused the 40-year-old span to plummet into the M.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 2:26pm neoform

CNN -- Drivers who were on the Minneapolis bridge when it collapsed told harrowing tales of survival. "The whole bridge from one side of the Mississippi to the other just completely gave way, fell all the way down," survivor Gary Babineau told CNN. "I probably h.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:50am neoform

BBC News -- US emergency teams are searching for bodies a day after a bridge over the Mississippi river collapsed, killing a number of people. At least four people are confirmed dead with up to 30 missing. US officials are not linking the collapse to terrorism... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

Washington Post -- The entire span of an interstate bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour Wednesday, sending vehicles, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water. The Interstate 35W bridge, a major link between Minneapolis a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 31, 2007 @ 4:53pm mrmdc

CNN -- Five suspicious packages planted throughout Boston Wednesday forced the shutdown of major roads, a bridge and a stretch of the Charles River... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Dec 17, 2006 @ 3:56pm neoform

National Geographic -- Members of a Native American group based in a remote part of Arizona are hoping to entice more tourists by inviting visitors to step off the edge of the Grand Canyon... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The lights went out at the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, the Bay Bridge, Ghirardelli Square and rows of downtown high-rises Saturday night as San Francisco took part in a global energy-saving ritual called Earth Hour. Although the event lasted only f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 31, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- Bridge safety leaped to the top of the agenda of federal highway administrator J. Richard Capka in August, when 13 people died in the collapse of a bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. But even before the disaster, it would have been a per.. Read More

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

MSNBC -- At 8:25 every weekday morning, Jim and Judy Little stand on their front porch to make sure their granddaughter, Shelby, gets safely on the school bus that takes her to her elementary school. Then they watch as the bus drives across a bridge that, at the b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Five years ago, a tanker carrying more than 11 million gallons of No. 6 oil - the same gooey substance the Cosco Busan spilled into San Francisco Bay - smacked head-on into the Casco Bay Bridge in Portland, Maine. The accident in Portland's harbor caus.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 5, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- PDT OAKLAND - After a weekend away, drivers returned to the Bay Bridge this morning to try out a new lane configuration at the toll plaza - bringing the normal traffic along with them. Despite the addition of a FasTrak-only toll booth, grouping of FasT.. Read More

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

CBS News -- The whole bridge fell into the river," one shaken woman told a 911 dispatcher seconds after disaster struck on an interstate over the Mississippi. "Everything you've got!" a male caller said five seconds later. "The whole bridge over the river fell dow.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

USA Today -- Human remains were found near the site of the bridge collapse Sunday morning, authorities said. The Hennepin County medical examiner was working to identify the remains recovered by water teams in the Mississippi River, the sheriff's office said. A veh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:10pm neoform

USA Today -- The man pulled over and got out of his vehicle, then climbed over the chest-high brown railing with a lighted cigarette in his hand and jumped. Jeffrey Coleman watched from his yard as the man fell 120-feet to his death. It wasn't the first time tha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 8:05am neoform

USA Today -- As politicians wrangled over the future of the collapsed Mississippi River bridge, more heavy rain pelted the area, threatening to delay recovery work. New storms moved in overnight after weekend thunderstorms slowed divers still seeking the bodies of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 11, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

USA Today -- Family and friends prepared for a double funeral on Saturday for a mother and daughter killed in the interstate bridge collapse, even as a grim recovery operation continued in the Mississippi River for five people still missing. The bodies of Sadiya Sa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 4:17pm neoform

CNN -- Searchers found two more bodies Thursday in the wreckage of the collapsed Mississippi River bridge, bringing the death toll to seven. As many as six people are still missing, authorities said. Crews have been searching the site for the past week since.. Read More