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A toll bridge built in 1769 across the River Thames will be auctioned next month, offering buyers a tax-free investment with a bit of historic charm.
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation has used 12 pounds of explosives to bring one of the state's most structurally problematic bridges crashing into a river.
Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.
An accident-plagued stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge saw its first fatality Monday when the driver of a speeding big rig lost control and the truck plummeted 200 feet from the span, authorities said.
A trucker is dead after his big rig plummeted 200 feet off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early Monday and smashed onto an island below.
A Caltrans official is offering a more optimistic estimate for when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be open again.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday, but transportation engineers said their work may not be finished.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been closed indefinitely after a rod installed during last month's emergency repairs snapped, causing a traffic nightmare for the 280,000 motorists who cross the landmark span every day.
Authorities on Tuesday indefinitely closed the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after a rod and a metal brace erected last month during an emergency repair job fell onto the bridge's westbound lanes, startling a pair of drivers who collided with the debris and leaving hundreds of others stranded in their cars during the evening commute.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been closed indefinitely after a rod installed during last month's emergency repairs snapped, causing a traffic nightmare for the 26,000 motorists who cross the landmark span every day.
Authorities on Tuesday closed a major bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland after a cable on its upper deck snapped during the evening commute.
A new footbridge across a Malaysian river collapsed while schoolchildren crossed it during a camping trip, killing one girl and leaving two missing and feared drowned in the currents below, officials said Tuesday.
Thousands of people ate breakfast on the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the iconic steel span was transformed Sunday into a grassy picnic ground.
Jeremy Johnson said he was dancing on the top rail of a bridge in Hopkinsville, but drivers below thought he was going to jump and called police. Johnson's job is to advertise Quiznos by dancing on the roadside near the Pennyrile Parkway while holding a sign for the sub shop. The Kentucky New Era quoted Johnson saying he was taking a break Saturday and was rolling a cigarette when drivers honked and waved at him.
Details released Thursday about the two most recent annual inspection reports on the Ambassador Bridge indicate the 80-year-old international span was structurally sound but had cracked concrete, rusted railings and corrosion.
A man accused of throwing his 4-year-old daughter off of a Melbourne bridge has pleaded not guilty to her murder.
The Coast Guard says it closed 10 miles of the Mississippi River for three hours after a towboat hit a bridge and all six barges broke free from the vessel C.B. Ford.
In many ways, Bosnia today has what the rest of Europe has lost. The country is at a magical inflection point, a crossroads, where it has the opportunity to be a model for the planet.
The leader of Brazil and Guyana met Monday to inaugurate a border bridge that is expected to boost trade between the giant South American country and the Caribbean.
They've heard it all before — the tanking economy, the bleeding of jobs, the creeping hardship that never seems to ebb. And the desperate hope that hangs over everything and whispers that maybe, just maybe, tomorrow might be a tiny bit better.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Tuesday just in time for the start of the work week after transit officials hastily announced that crews were able to make a crucial repair a day ahead of schedule.
The 13 people killed in the Aug. 1, 2007, collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis:
Activists are suing to halt California plans to erect suicide barriers along Santa Barbara County's scenic Cold Spring Canyon Bridge, where dozens of people have jumped to their deaths.
Homeless advocates and county officials intend to move a group of registered sex offenders living under a bridge to private housing this week amid growing criticism — and lawsuits — over the county's ordinance that they must live at least 2,500 feet from places where children gather.
Three cranes crashed Monday while trying to lift a steel girder that fell at a New Delhi metro rail construction site, a new setback for the landmark project a day after another accident killed six people there.
I grew up in the Hudson Valley, specifically in Hyde Park, just north of Poughkeepsie. While growing up on the mighty Hudson River, I never spent much time thinking about the Railroad bridge across the Hudson-it was just, always there since before I could remember anything.
San Francisco: Engineers to probe failed repairs on Bay Bridge"The Federal Highway Administration sent engineers Wednesday to investigate what caused repairs to fail on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and drop 5,000-pounds of metal into rush-hour traffic lanes.
'Suicide pact' teenage girls died hand in hand by jumping 125ft from bridgeTwo teenage girls leapt hand-in-hand from a bridge to their deaths after one left a 'suicide' message on a social networking site. The friends, aged 14 and 15, jumped more than 100ft from a notorious suicide spot and plunged into a river.
Protesters Dangle From Pittsburgh Bridge To Call For Climate ActionPITTSBURGH -- Four climate activists are dangling off Pittsburgh's West End Bridge by ropes with a large sign that says "Climate Destruction Ahead" and "Reduce CO2 Emissions Now."
Two Pakistanis arrested in UK return homeThe British spokeswoman's statement that the two Pakistani student earlier arrest on charges of terrorism(not proven); Volunteered to leave her country! Did they have a choice other then languish without trial behind bars under a Western Democratic Nation that has been trying t …
Woman drowns after jumping from bridgeAn Oklahoma City woman died after jumping from a bridge into Lake Tenkiller, said an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report.
Bridge smeared with butter to stop suicidesChinese workers have covered a giant steel bridge with butter because officials are fed up with traffic jams caused by people who slow down to watch suicide victims leaping to their death.
Construction will continue at I195Drivers who use the bridge that brings Fall River Avenue (Route 114A) over Interstate 195 shouldn't expect to see construction in the area finish up anytime soon.
City threatens to fine state over sex-offender camp In the latest twist in the fate of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, the city of Miami says state authorities have violated city code.
Minnesota sues firm that monitored I-35 bridgeI post this as "politics" because it is, and as "other" because it makes me too angry to consider it an event, and I have more opinion about it than anything else.
Canada buys $34 million in land for second Detroit-Windsor bridge The Detroit Free Press reports Canada will make the land part of the Detroit River International Crossing project, a consortium of U.S. and Canadian interests cooperating to build the bridge.
: Park bridge collapses in Merrillville while people looking at fireworksA bridge at Hidden Lake Park in Merrillville collapsed at the end of a fireworks display Saturday night, possibly injuring at least 100 people, media reports say. Officials say the number of injured was unknown.
Passer-by Pushes Suicide Jumper (Video of May 21, 2009 Incident in China) This is a video of the May 21, 2009 incident where a man pushed a would-be suicide jumper off a bridge.
Would-be Suicide Jumper "Pushed Off" Bridge By Man Upset at Traffic DelayA man "who threatened to kill himself" by jumping off a bridge was "pushed off" the bridge by a person upset that the "would-be jumper had held up traffic."
Brain Power - At Card Table, Clues to a Lucid Old Age The ladies in the card room are playing bridge, and at their age the game is no hobby. It is a way of life, a daily comfort and challenge, the last communal campfire before all goes dark.
Bridge fall stunt backfires Bad idea: Pretending to fall off a bridge. Really bad idea: Actually falling off the bridge.
Politics of HatredA real danger to India's cherished pluralism is coming from hate mongers like Varun Gandhi and his political party.
2 Hurt on Bronx-Whitestone BridgeAn M.T.A. construction truck struck an overhead road sign on the Queens-bound plaza of the Whitestone Bridge at 1:10 p.m. on Friday, causing the steel sign structure to come crashing down on all six lanes and injuring two people who were on the truck, according to M.T.A.
Biloxi Bridge Span Collapses After Barge StrikeA portion of the Popps Ferry Bridge in Biloxi collapsed Friday morning when it was struck by a barge attempting to pass beneath the structure. One vehicle -- which was unoccupied -- fell into the water. Rescue crews on the scene report no injuries.
City begins razing Town Street bridgeCome August, Columbus' nearly century-old Town Street bridge will be no more.
Girl Escapes From Truck Where Father, Sister Drowned Billy Harp and one of his daughters were killed when their truck plunged off a Madison County bridge into icy water Sunday morning. But his other daughter, Kayla, who was in the truck with them, survived.
Truck makes action-film jump on A3 motorwayThe driver of a semi-truck on the A3 motorway near Würzburg amazed rescue workers on Wednesday after smashing through a concrete guardrail to jump a six-metre gap onto a partially demolished bridge over the Main River.
Man stranded on icy bridge falls 45 feet to his deathMatthew Penelle, 41, a father of three, was walking next to a short concrete barrier on the Westmoreland Road bridge in West Dallas around 9 p.m. Tuesday when he slipped on ice and fell 45 feet to his death into the dry Trinity River bottom below.
Mexico City, January 25, 2009 - A bomb found on Puerta a las Americas, one of the four international bridges linking Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico to Laredo, Texas, USA was detonated by experts using a robot.
Man Falls Off Bridge, Found Alive Day LaterA man was found lying under a railroad bridge Monday afternoon after falling off the bridge sometime Sunday.
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