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Victims and the families of those killed in the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis in 2007 agreed Friday to settle their lawsuits against a construction company that was resurfacing the span at the time.
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.
Two companies the state accuses of negligence that contributed to the Interstate 35W bridge collapse have won a combined $50 million in new highway and bridge contracts since the deadly disaster two years ago.
It's been two years since Justina Hausmann's father died when a Minneapolis freeway bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River, long enough for some people to ask how she's getting on with life.
The largest group of victims from the Interstate 35W bridge collapse two years ago filed lawsuits Thursday against two companies that worked on the structure, saying the rush-hour disaster in downtown Minneapolis was "entirely avoidable."
Nearly two years after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River, much of its twisted steel remnants sit rusting on a long swath of a leafy park just a half-mile from where the span fell.
The state of Minnesota closed a chapter on the Interstate 35W bridge collapse on Thursday by reaching final settlements with all 179 eligible victims of the disaster in downtown Minneapolis two years ago.
Seventeen more victims from the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis in 2007 are suing a consulting firm that studied the structure and a contractor that was resurfacing it.
The National Transportation Safety Board got the cause of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse wrong, the lead attorney for most victims of the disaster claimed Wednesday.
Compensation offers have gone out to 179 victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, giving them until mid-April to decide whether to take the state help.
An engineering firm that analyzed the Interstate 35W bridge and a construction company that was resurfacing the span when it collapsed have asked a judge to dismiss parts of four lawsuits from victims.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden reopened Monday, three days after part of a soaring pedestrian walkway under construction collapsed, killing one worker and injuring 18 others.
The design flaw that brought down a highway bridge in Minneapolis went undetected for 40 years. Federal safety officials say that, even today, government design reviews might not detect similar problems.
The chairman of the House Transportation Committee criticized federal investigators Sunday after a published report said they have determined an original design flaw is the most likely reason for the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.
Emergency vehicles with lights flashing led twin processions to open the new Interstate 35W bridge before dawn Thursday, less than 14 months after the shocking and deadly collapse of its predecessor.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it will have a draft in November of its final report the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse last year.
It was another perfect summer day — so similar to and yet so different from that day a year ago when the Minneapolis freeway bridge fell.
It was just past 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, when the Interstate 35W bridge buckled and fell into the Mississippi River. Thirteen people died.
A railroad bridge collapsed into the flooded Iowa River, dropping a locomotive and two tanker cars into the water, authorities said Wednesday.
Susan Holden built her legal career trying to get everything she could for people hurt in car accidents or by defective products.
Transportation officials' concerns that fixing or replacing a Minneapolis bridge would be a "budget buster" may have led to bad maintenance decisions before its deadly collapse last August, a report released Wednesday concluded.
A close-knit coalition of Minneapolis bridge collapse victims — some in wheelchairs and others still wearing casts — looked on Thursday as Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed a $38 million package to compensate them for their injuries and losses.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday backed off his assertion that pork-barrel spending led to last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
A Democratic congressman on Wednesday urged the National Transportation Safety Board to reverse its decision not to hold an interim public hearing on last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
While federal investigators are months away from a final decision, internal memos suggest they have settled on undersize steel plates and heavy loads of construction materials as the likely cause of the deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis last year.
Traffic moving smoothly as new 35W bridge has grand openingHonking their horns and stirring up faint clouds of post-construction dust, hundreds of drivers helped open the new Interstate 35W bridge this morning just a few minutes after 5 a.m.
Slow, somber procession to open new Minneapolis bridge a year after deadly disaster State troopers will lead a slow, somber procession of motorists across the Mississippi River early Thursday to mark the opening of the new bridge replacing one that collapsed and killed 13 people last year.
New inspections find no problems with Ala. bridgesThree deck truss bridges in Alabama have had another round of inspections because they are similar to the Interstate 35 bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis last summer.
The 35W Bridge: One Year LaterOne year ago next week, the 40-year-old Interstate Hwy.
Design Flaw Cited in Minneapolis Bridge CollapseWASHINGTON (AP) -- Steel plates connecting beams in the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis were too thin by half and fractured, ''the critical factor'' in the collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
Nepal bridge collapse kills 15, hundreds missingAn overcrowded suspension bridge over the Bheri River collapsed in Nepal, killing at least 15.
MnDOT unveils design of 35W bridgeOfficials with the construction team of Flatiron/Manson will begin survey work on Tuesday for the new I-35W bridge.
No money, no leadership: Another MNDOT cash flow crisis$393 million: That's the new price tag for replacing the fallen Interstate 35W bridge offered to skeptical legislators Monday by an increasingly beleaguered Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Family+Relationships: Before grief goes, grief growsI've seen the trick a hundred times.
One Firm Linked to 2 Disasters - August 27, 2007 - The New York SunA construction firm involved in the demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building is the same company that assured Minnesota officials a highway bridge was safe before it collapsed this summer
Wanted: Input from commuters, residents on I-35W issuesCity officials have reopened Bridge No. 9, the Dinkytown pedestrian bridge, but reopening the 10th Avenue Bridge is a trickier issue.
They Knew -- Minnesota Dept of Transportation Talked Openly About The Potential Collapse of The I-35W BridgeInternal 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.
At least 22 dead as bridge collapses in China A partly-built road bridge that was due for completion this month has collapsed in southern China killing 22 people, although the death toll is expected to rise substantially.
Sixth victim found in bridge collapse | ReutersMINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The body of a sixth victim was found on Thursday in the wreckage of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, police said.
Phobia of Crossing Bridges Now in SpotlightBig bridge: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which stretches for four miles, can be a scary place for someone with gephyrophobia, the fear of crossing bridges.
Possible design flaw found in collapsed U.S. bridgePerhaps it wasn't a lack of maintenance that caused the 35W bridge to collapse, after all.
When you make your plans and are preparing an emergency kit for your vehicle, you probably won't be thinking about facing a disaster like the one that befell dozens of commuters in Minneapolis last week.
Experienced hand with a plan is behind the disaster responseRocco Forte was striding through his usual after-work constitutional at Lake of the Isles last Wednesday when his pager erupted. Hustling back to his fire-red car, the city's emergency preparedness chief raced back to City Hall with his siren blaring and his mind flicking throug …
Who's building our bridges? (Yup, you guessed it)"The owner of Tarrasco Steel, a company that supplied workers on the Biloxi Bay Bridge, was arrested and charged with hiring illegal immigrants on projects in three states. Some had improper welding certification." DOH!
Ex-Clinton Official Ties Minneapolis Bridge Collapse To Global WarmingA former member of the Clinton administration, and current Senior Fellow at the virtual Clinton think tank the Center for American Progress, claimed Monday that global warming might have played a factor in the collapse of the I35 bridge in Minneapolis last week. I kid you not.
Lessons From the Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis?There's been quite a lot of discussion about the lessons of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, much of it characterized by partisan debate about whether certain government policies contributed to the collapse, with the alternate argument focusing on blaming the victims for not esta …
The collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis is a tragedy of gargantuan proportions but it was followed by bravery, stories of heroism and miracles also on a grand scale.
On MN Bridge Collapse: "Public Anger Will Follow Our Sorrow"For half a dozen years, the motto of state government and particularly that of Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been No New Taxes. It's been popular with a lot of voters and it has mostly prevailed.
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