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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – At least one person has died after a crane collapsed onto the Elan City Lights apartment complex near Good Latimer and Live Oak in Downtown Dallas, officials confirmed. Heavy winds from severe storms moved through the area Sunday afternoon.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has opened a criminal investigation into a fatal crane accident on the East Side, focusing on whether a part of the crane had been seriously damaged last year and then inappropriately put back into service, an official involved in the investigation said on Saturday. The piece in question is a rotating apparatus, or turntable, that connects the operator’s cab and the boom to the crane tower. The official said investigators believed but were not certain that the turntable involved in Friday’s accident, on East 91st Street, was damaged during construction on West 46th Street last...

A crane towering over a high-rise construction site on the East Side of Manhattan collapsed in a roar of rending steel Saturday afternoon, raining death and destruction across a city block as it slashed down on an apartment building, broke into sections, crushed a town house and cut away a tenement facade. At least four people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured, and damage was expected to run into the millions of dollars in what the authorities called one of the city’s worst accidents — a calamity that turned a neighborhood near the United Nations into...