Connecticut homeowners said they need additional financial assistance to help with crumbling home foundations that threaten to collapse their houses. Dozens of homeowners arrived in Hartford on Monday to support a bill that proposes every insurance company cover the peril …
Connecticut residents whose home foundations are crumbling are facing a perplexing problem with their insurance policies: The damage won’t be covered unless their homes collapse. More than two dozen insurance companies being sued in federal court by 40 homeowners recently …
Officials say a pavilion being used for shelter during severe weather collapsed at a central Pennsylvania park, and 10 to 12 people suffered minor injuries, including several children. Authorities say several dozen people attending a baseball game Friday night sought …
A third building owned by the same family has collapsed on Sedalia’s Main Street in Missouri. The Sedalia Democrat reported that the owners had operated a restaurant equipment business out of the buildings until they began crumbling. The problems started …
A section of floor collapsed Friday at the construction site of a new casino, sending workers tumbling 30 feet to the ground and leaving about a dozen with minor injuries. The collapse comes on the heels of a similar accident …
Cuban officials say a decaying residential building has collapsed in a densely packed neighborhood of Havana, killing three people and injuring six. A message read on the midday state newscast Wednesday says the Central Havana building that was home to …
Detroi, Mich., authorities say an abandoned nursing home that was a target for metal scavengers collapsed, killing two people inside. Police and firefighters were at the scene of the accident Wednesday afternoon. The facility is on Detroit’s northwest side. WDIV-TV …
A police report on the crushing death of a student at Williamston High School says a gym wall that collapsed was wobbly years earlier. Fourteen-year-old Gabriel Corbett died Oct. 26 when a concrete wall fell on him at the school …
Work is scheduled to begin Monday on the cleanup from two buildings that collapsed in Morrilton, Ark., earlier this year, killing a 2-year-old girl. The work is starting after the buildings’ owners and the city reached a deal on how …
Authorities say two workers were injured when trusses collapsed at a construction site in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Daily News of Iron Mountain reports authorities responded Tuesday afternoon to the site of a new clinic at Dickinson County Memorial Hospital. …