Building collapses
With the collapse of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s latest plan to avert a federal shutdown, lawmakers have left town with no endgame in sight.
Three 15-year-olds are dead after a car one of them was driving slammed into a vacant brick home near St. Louis. Police told the St.
Egyptian authorities say a four-story apartment building has collapsed in Cairo, killing at least four people.
The owner of an Iowa apartment building that collapsed in May has filed a lawsuit blaming an engineering company for not warning the building was structurally unsound and that residents should be evacuated.
Rescue crews are searching for survivors after a building collapse in Nigeria’s capital left two people dead while many others are feared trapped.
One person was critically injured and four others were hurt when a wooden wall at a home under construction in Massachusetts collapsed on them.
A powerful explosion in a bustling market area near the capital of the Dominican Republic has killed at least three people and injuring more than 30 others.
An explosion caused a four-unit apartment building in Denver to partially collapse, sending one person to the hospital with minor injuries.
The death toll from recent flooding in China’s capital has risen to 33, including five rescuers, and another 18 people are missing.
Lightning has knocked out a lighthouse on the Maine Coast that was featured in the movie “Forrest Gump.”
Iowa’s health agency has determined that the deaths of three men crushed in the collapse of a downtown Davenport building were accidental.
Police say a car crashed into the National Hispanic Cultural Center in southwest Albuquerque, causing a small fire and the evacuation of the building.
Pedestrians scatter as fire causes New York construction crane’s arm to collapse and crash to street
The mayor of New York City says nine civilians suffered minor injuries but no one died when a fire on a construction crane caused its arm to strike a building as it crashed to the street.
Prosecutors have filed charges against the driver of a minivan that crashed into a building in Wisconsin.
Victims in deadly collapse of China middle school gym roof largely members of girl’s volleyball team
Prosecutors in northeastern China are pursuing criminal charges against construction managers blamed for the collapse of the roof of a middle school gymnasium, leading to 11 deaths.
Police say a minivan has crashed into a building in Wisconsin, reducing its brick facade to a pile of bricks and leaving much of the roof sagging precariously.
A fire chief says at least six people were seriously injured when outdoor deck collapsed at a house in Alabama.
Cameroonian authorities say the death toll from a building collapse has more than doubled as the search continues for survivors.
Authorities say at least 16 people were killed and nearly three dozen injured Sunday when a four-story building collapsed onto a smaller one in Cameroon’s largest city.
Paris prosecutors say a third person has died as the result of an explosion a month ago that sent a historic building crumbling down and ignited a huge fire in the high-end Left Bank neighborhood.
Police and rescue officials say 11 workers were killed after a portion of the outer wall of a sprawling building collapsed near an under-construction bridge on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad.
Authorities say a pilot died Tuesday after a small propeller plan crashed into an empty New Mexico home shortly after takeoff.
Egyptian authorities say a five-story apartment building has collapsed in Cairo, leaving at least 12 people dead.
Police say two people have died and another was injured after a tractor-trailer crashed into a home in eastern Tennessee. The truck driver has been arrested.
The federal government has denied Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ request for assistance after a six-story apartment building partially collapsed roughly one month ago.
The Paris prosecutor says rescuers are struggling to reach a person feared trapped in a Left Bank building that partially collapsed this week after a violent explosion.
At least 31 people have been killed and seven injured when cooking gas exploded at a restaurant in Yinchuan in northwestern China.
Federal investigators say the swimming pool deck of a beachfront South Florida condominium that collapsed two years ago, killing 98 people, failed to comply with original building codes and standards.
Two firms have been tasked with investigating the partial collapse of a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, that left three dead, many injured and dozens displaced.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Crews on Monday started demolishing the remains of a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, that partially collapsed more than two weeks ago, killing three people and leaving dozens homeless.
It seems everyone from the structural engineer to city officials to tenants had concerns about the 116-year-old Davenport apartment building.