Morrilton, Ark., has reached an agreement with a clean-up company to remove debris from downtown buildings that collapsed in May, killing a 2-year-old girl. Little Rock television station KTHV reports that the Morrilton City Council agreed Monday to a bid …
Passing trucks shook the six-story office building constantly in the months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in September 2010. “There were quite big cracks, you could see daylight from some offices with outside walls,” said receptionist Maryanne Jackson. But, she …
An attorney for workers who sued over the collapse of an elevated walkway under construction in the treetops at the Atlanta Botanical Garden said settlements totaling more than $15 million have been reached in the case. A portion of the …
Authorities stepped up efforts Thursday to deliver food and evacuate villagers stranded by monsoon flooding in eastern India, as searchers reported finding 28 more bodies, bringing the country’s seasonal death toll to 335. With relentless rains finally easing, air force …
An Indiana law that caps the state’s liability for damages at $5 million for a single event violates the U.S. and state constitutions and should be thrown out, six plaintiffs suing over the deadly collapse of an Indiana State Fair …
A California oil field worker has been killed when a support beam collapsed during construction of a new drilling rig in Ventura County. Senior deputy medical examiner Crain Stevens tells the Ventura County Star that 34-year-old Oscar Zamudio of Bakersfield …
Rescue workers used shovels and their bare hands to pull bodies from the debris of collapsed buildings Monday, as the death toll from an earthquake that hit northeast India, Nepal and Tibet rose to 50. At least 25 people died …
A strong earthquake hit northeastern India on Sunday near the border with Nepal and was felt over a broad area, officials said. Regional TV station NewsLive reported that 10 to 12 buildings collapsed in Sikkim’s state capital of Gangtok. It …
The morning commute threatened to be unusually long Thursday at the nation’s busiest border crossing after all U.S.-bound traffic was halted the previous day because scaffolding had collapsed, falling on more than a dozen cars and injuring 11 travelers and …
An emergency response plan drafted 10 months before the Indiana State Fair’s deadly stage collapse details how staff should handle evacuations, but it doesn’t spell out the precise scenarios that would trigger an evacuation, newly released documents indicate. The 71-page …