BALTIMORE (AP) — Teams of engineers worked Saturday on the intricate process of cutting and lifting the first section of twisted steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which crumpled into the Patapsco River this week after a massive cargo ship crashed into one of its supports. Sparks could be seen flying from a section of bent and crumpled steel in the afternoon, and video released ...
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After a yearlong closure, a bridge over the Puyallup River reopened in 2019 with a sturdy new span and a brand new name. It even won a national award. But today, the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge is closed again after federal officials raised concerns about a vintage section of the nearly century-old bridge that carried about 15,000 vehicles a day. It has no timetable to reopen because the city ...
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Michael DiMaggio's nephew told him the news this week of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. And the pain of losing his sister last year came flooding back. "We wished nobody else would have to feel what we do," said DiMaggio, 38, of Annapolis, Maryland. "It's heartbreaking." For many family members of the nation's highway workers, it's grief that repeatedly plays out against a deadly ...
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When construction of the Automated People Mover at Los Angeles International Airport is finished, travelers will finally have an option to avoid the airport's dreaded traffic loop that's become the punchline of too many jokes. But recently it's only added to the chaos. And now it's completion date is being pushed back, one more delay in the $30-billion overhaul of the fifth-busiest airport in ...
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Mar. 29—Two teams were announced Thursday as finalists for the job of developing, building, operating and maintaining the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District, or NASED. Two teams were announced Thursday as finalists for the job of developing, building, operating and maintaining the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District, or NASED. One will be chosen for the project, with the focal point ...
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A former chief financial officer at a construction equipment supplier in Connecticut has pleaded guilty to a federal charge stemming from a scheme he used to embezzle nearly $900,000. Charles Ameer, 64, of Weston pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud during a hearing Thursday in federal court in Bridgeport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. He is free ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation's largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032, will avoid up to 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas ...
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On the night of Easter Sunday 1969, the Taiwanese freighter Union Faith sliced through a crude oil barge, unleashing a towering inferno on the Mississippi River that melted steel on the Greater New Orleans Bridge and killed 26 crewmen. Nearly 25 years later, in May 1993, an errant barge and tugboat on the Industrial Canal in New Orleans took out steel support beams and caused a 145-foot ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A crane appeared at the site of a collapsed highway bridge in Baltimore as crews prepared Friday to begin clearing wreckage that has stymied the search for four missing workers and blocked ships from entering or leaving the city's vital port. A crane that can lift 1,000 tons — described as the largest on the Eastern Seaboard — had been expected to arrive late Thursday, and a ...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Rebuilding Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge could take anywhere from 18 months to several years, experts say, while the cost could be at least $400 million — or more than twice that. It all depends on factors that are still mostly unknown. They range from the design of the new bridge to how swiftly government officials can navigate the bureaucracy of ...
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