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U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

MSNBC -- Stickler said any further rescue efforts would have to involve drilling a bore hole large enough to fit a rescue capsule, which would take more than two weeks. 'It's a brotherhood' Despite the long odds, mining experts predicted that colleagues of t.. 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 Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

USA Today -- Six miners were trapped in a coal mine Monday by a cave-in so powerful that authorities initially thought it was small earthquake. Eight hours after the underground cave-in was reported, rescuers had not had any contact with the miners and were still t.. 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 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 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 @ 8:21am neoform

Washington Post -- As he keeps watch outside the Utah coal mine where six of his employees have been trapped since Monday, Robert E. Murray angrily fends off suggestions that it was his company's mining technique, and not an earthquake, that caused the collapse 1,500 feet b.. Read More

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

USA Today -- Church bells tolled in downtown Minneapolis as residents observed a moment of silence for the victims of last week's bridge collapse. At 6:05 p.m. Tuesday — the exact time of the bridge collapse six days earlier — crowds gathered at two parks near.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- After five exhausting days searching for victims of an interstate bridge collapse, rescue coordinators are turning to the U.S. Navy divers considered the best. Local dive teams have yet to recover the eight people missing and believed dead in last Wedn.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:39pm neoform

FOX News -- A helicopter with a camera mounted in its nose on Monday made slow sweeps as low as 30 feet above the wreckage of a freeway bridge collapse to take pictures of the debris in precise detail as divers were to resume searching for victims. As the divers w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:18pm neoform

CNN -- Investigators need to begin removing debris from the Mississippi River to further the investigation of the I-35W bridge collapse and the search for missing motorists, Hennepin County Sheriff Richard Stanek said Monday. He said investigators have identifie.. Read More

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

CNN -- Five people are confirmed to have died in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, bridge collapse. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday that four bodies were recovered Wednesday and one was recovered Thursday. Authorities have said the toll is.. Read More

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

CNN -- Searchers in Minneapolis combed the Mississippi River Thursday looking for victims of an interstate bridge collapse. Four people were confirmed dead. Officials said at least 62 people were injured in the Wednesday evening rush-hour disaster. Twenty people.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 3:02pm neoform

FOX News -- Workers found Friday the body of one of two miners missing after a collapse at an open-pit coal mine in western Maryland, a federal mine official said. The body was in a battered backhoe the man was operating Tuesday when a section of the high wall col.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:53am mrmdc

SF Gate -- The hundreds of tons of rock that broke loose Tuesday from a slope in San Francisco's North Beach will take weeks to clean up, and it probably will be months before the hillside is made safe and the 120 residents driven from their homes can return, city o.. Read More