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Authorities say a wall has collapsed at a high school football playoff game in northwest South Carolina and a dozen students have been taken to the hospital.
Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989:
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.
Texas A&M University's tentlike athletic complex wasn't built to withstand the maximum winds prescribed by the building code, according to an engineering firm hired by the university to evaluate the $35.6 million structure.
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.
Six people died and 14 were still missing after a three-story building collapsed on the outskirts of the country's capital, a police official said Tuesday, as experts warned that irresponsible contractors were to blame.
The Detroit Tigers' brush with the AL Central title was fleeting.
The Dallas Cowboys' practice facility collapsed last May in winds it should have been able to withstand, according to a draft report released Tuesday by a federal agency that investigated the accident that injured a dozen people.
Fire officials say a "ghost walk" tour had a scary ending in Ohio when the floor of a 164-year-old log cabin collapsed, injuring two people. Fire Chief Dan Alldred says the first floor of the Toll House gave way as the local historical society was wrapping up Sunday evening's tour in Germantown, 13 miles southwest of Dayton.
Federal safety officials are warning workers around the country not to clear gas lines indoors after a North Carolina factory blast killed three people.
A judge has ruled the city of San Diego is not responsible for a landslide that damaged dozens of homes in a La Jolla neighborhood two years ago.
Romania's coalition government collapsed Thursday after nine ministers from the Social Democrats quit to protest the firing of the interior minister for comments about possible election fraud.
A church dormitory collapsed Wednesday in eastern Nepal after attendees at a Christian conference went to sleep on its roof, killing at least 24 people and injuring an additional 62, police and church officials said.
Three months after an explosion at a Slim Jim factory in North Carolina killed three people, a state panel has made emergency changes to its gas guidelines despite federal inaction on the standards.
Judges have begun approving payouts from a multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from the collapse two years ago of a Utah mine that entombed six miners and led to three rescuers' deaths.
A preliminary report has determined that inefficient structural supports and weather factors contributed to the collapse of a northern Texas town's storefront awning that killed a teenager and injured another.
Two Dallas Cowboys employees seriously injured in the collapse of the team's indoor practice facility filed lawsuits Tuesday against the company that designed the structure and others linked to its construction and repair.
A massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it Monday, killing him on the spot, authorities said.
Texas A&M interim president R. Bowen Loftis has requested an independent safety analysis of the McFerrin Athletic Center.
Kevin Costner says he hopes to return to Alberta to support those affected by the collapse of an outdoor stage during a severe thunderstorm that killed one person and injured dozens more at a country music festival.
An unfinished factory building collapsed amid a violent thunderstorm Tuesday in northern China, killing 17 people, state media and a government official said.
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.
Country singer Billy Currington says he and his band are very grateful to be alive after the outdoor stage they were performing on in Canada collapsed over the weekend and killed one person.
Organizers on Sunday canceled the closing day of a country music festival in central Alberta a day after a fierce thunderstorm caused an outdoor stage to collapse, killing one person and injuring about 75 others.
A five-story building collapsed in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least 21 people, mostly women and children, authorities said Saturday.
Dollar Will be "Utterly Destroyed": Strategist (Video)The dollar will get "utterly destroyed" and become "virtually worthless", said Damon Vickers, chief investment officer of Nine Points Capital Partners.
Obama: Debt Could Fuel 'Double-Dip Recession'"I think it is important, though, to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession." -Obama
3 things that could kill bank reformThis week, the House and Senate will hammer out legislation to avoid another financial collapse. Here are a couple of key conflicts that could stand in the way of progress.
Bailed Out Banks Fund Cluster BombsYep, they do. The headline is for the benefit of the more liberal folks.
Students Hurt As Wall Collapses At Football Game A wall collapsed during Friday night's Union County High School football game and several students were injured, officials said. The students were sitting on the wall and cheering for the team when the wall collapsed.
Gold Futures Rise to Record on Speculation Dollar Will Decline Gold futures are rising dramatically as Central Banks are starting to loose confidence in the dollar and hedging with gold purchases. This is an incredibly bad sign for confidence in the future of the US dollar.
Barrick shuts hedge book as world gold supply runs out - TelegraphThis is a double "oh-@!$%#" moment. We should see Gold shoot up and our dollars drop to nothing.
The Mother of All Bail Outs...Coming Soon!!From the Executive Summary: "The nation is watching closely as California struggles to avoid going broke.
Apple - Movie Trailers - CollapseAmericans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best.
Apocalypse now: 'Collapse' and the end of the world as we know itAmerica has a bad case of the doomsday jitters. You don't have to be a Glenn Beck follower to know that whenever things go wrong in this country, you can always find all the anger, bitterness and fear-mongering bubbling up and over into our popular culture.
Jail Time, Fines and other Penalties for Those without Health Care InsuranceDuring an exclusive interview with ABC News' Jake Tapper today, President Obama said that penalties are appropriate for people who try to "free ride" the health care system but stopped short of endorsing the threat of jail time for those who refuse to pay a fine for not hav …
Goldman Sachs: Record profits from 2009 not related to bailout, they're doing God's workSo, it's business as usual, then, regardless of whether it makes most people howl at the moon with rage? Goldman Sachs, this pillar of the free market, breeder of super-citizens, object of envy and awe will go on raking it in, getting richer than God? An impish grin spreads acr …
The root cause of the crash is the excessive inflation of bank credit. An entire nation cannot borrow for 50 years and then expect that all will be fine when the pay back time arrives. FED policies have inflated bank credit for decades. When we borrow, banks create new money.
Oops. Fork lift driver crashes - destroys £100,000 worth of vodka (video)A Russian fork lift truck driver has been caught on camera crashing into shelves filled with vodka at a warehouse in Moscow. The crash destroyed £100,000 worth of alcohol. The driver escaped with a minor leg injury.
Senate Set to Waste More MoneyThe U.S. Senate approved a $45 billion plan to expand a tax credit for first-time homebuyers, extend jobless benefits and provide tax refunds to money-losing companies.
Deforestation the Death of Nazca CivilizationThe mystery of the disappearance of the vanished Nazca people, the same ones who are known for the many fanciful designs etched into the desert plateau, may have been solved. Scientists found pollen from a vanished nitrogen-fixing tree, the huarango.
Federal Reserve Policy Audit Legislation "Gutted" Paul Says - Bloomberg.comOct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who has called for an end to the Federal Reserve, said legislation he introduced to audit monetary policy has been "gutted" while moving toward a possible vote in the Democratic-controlled House.
George Soros: China Will Lead New World OrderBillionaire globalist George Soros told the Financial Times during an interview that China will supplant the United States as the leader of the new world order and that America should not resist the country's decline as the dollar weakens, living standards drop, and a new globa …
Morrissey collapses during showFormer Smiths singer Morrissey has been taken to hospital after collapsing on stage with breathing difficulties. Eyewitnesses said the 50-year-old fell to the floor during a performance of his former band's song This Charming Man at Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon.
The new face on the million dollar billAnd the winner is: A little mirror that allows U.S. consumers to see their own reflection. These consumers, who in most cases are also voters, bear responsibility for the politicians and policy makers who got the dollar, and the country, into its current mess.
Three die in Detroit marathon -hree runners died Sunday during the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon in Detroit, Michigan, police told CNN.
BRIC to call the shots in post-crisis world - RT Top Stories"Countries like Russia and China and Brazil are trying to divorce themselves from the US, because it's a completely toxic currency that's just right for fraud.
FHA says to Steal From TaxpayersOct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Housing Administration, which insures mortgages with low down payments, may require a U.S. bailout because of $54 billion more in losses than it can withstand, a former Fannie Mae executive said.
FT.com / US / Economy & Fed - Obama under fire over falling dollarMuch of today's debate echoes the traditional political response in the US whenever the currency depreciates.
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