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For almost a year and a half workers had been constructing a bridge to cross the main Interstate that runs between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but it took just minutes to bring the entire structure crashing to the ground. The blaze began after a construction workers' blowtorch was fanned by strong winds and ignited the wooden scaffolding that was being used to build the new flyover, across Interstate 15 in Herperia, California. Driven by high winds, the fire took hold extremely quickly and began burning the supports surrounding the bridge. Debris began to fell onto the I-15 minutes after...

By all accounts, this was an unusual tactic in a labor dispute, even for Boston. Thursday night, right in the midst of the dinnertime rush at one of the city's fanciest steakhouses, The Capital Grille on Newbury Street, a local labor leader allegedly walked into the dining room, opened a white shopping bag, and let three white rats loose. A commotion ensued as the varmints scurried about and diners slicing $40 cuts of dry aged sirloin and other succulent entrees scattered. Out the door, police say, ran Louis J. Antonellis, a business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...

BUFFALO, Aug. 1 — ....“This has been the most significant F.B.I. criminal investigation in western New York in the past 20 years,” said Laurie Bennett, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s office here. “I say that because of the widespread violence and the significant and devastating economic loss to the community.” ...Witnesses in the first days of the trial described threats against themselves and their relatives, slashed tires, vandalism at construction sites ... ...On Thursday, Goran Stevanovich, who was a nonunion worker at an asbestos-removal project in the spring of 1997, described how Local 91 pickets...

AG: 3 ceiling bolts had no epoxy By Jessica Fargen Sunday, July 16, 2006 - Updated: 12:42 AM EST Attorney General Tom Reilly dropped a bombshell yesterday, revealing that several of the crucial bolts holding up a 3-ton piece of concrete that crashed down on a woman on her way to Logan Airport had no epoxy on them. A Reilly spokeswoman said investigators have recovered 19 of the 20 bolts from the collapsed ceiling area, which turned into a crime scene after Monday’s fatal Big Dig tunnel tragedy. Three bolts appear to have had no epoxy applied, she said. “These...

I do not have a link as of yet. But it seems that a UAW type, went postal in the Jeep Plant in North Toledo OH. 3 shot not including shooter, 2 dead including the shooter. There is also a rumor of a bomb in the shooters coat. He was going to get "displined" for something, what it was they [the police] are not saying as of yet.

An eight-story office building which was leaning precariously for days in one of Manila's busy commercial districts, collapses Friday July 23, 2004, hours after occupants fled in panic following creaking sounds and bursting water pipes. No injuries were reported but the incident damaged another building across the street. Electric cables burst into flames as an eight-story office building which was leaning precariously for days in one of Manila's busy commercial districts, collapses Friday July 23, 2004, hours after occupants fled in panic following creaking sounds and bursting water pipes. No injuries were reported but the incident damaged another building across...

Fox News just broke into the NASA press conference. Doesn't sound good at all, seems like three failed comm attempts, two from orbiters and one from Earth; it's not just the bad weather in Australia. He was being a bit technical but it does not sound good at all.