FLORIDA (REUTERS) – A month after an engineering report warned of “major structural damage” that required prompt repair in 2018, a Surfside, Florida, official assured residents of Champlain Towers South that their building was sound, US media reported. The death toll from the partial collapse of a high-rise condominium complex near Miami rose to nine […]
A 21-year-old man was shot once in the back on Sunday afternoon in Times Square in a brazen act of violence in one of the city’s best known tourist destinations, according to a New York City Police Department spokesman. The man was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, the police said. The shooting took place […]
Some engineers looking at the failure of a 13-story condo tower in Florida said the collapse appeared to have begun somewhere near the bottom of the building. By James Glanz, Anjali Singhvi and Mike Baker The investigation into what may be the deadliest accidental building collapse in American history has just begun, but experts who have […]
A heat dome has enveloped the Pacific Northwest, driving temperatures to extreme levels — 110 degrees in some spots — and creating dangerous conditions in a part of the country unaccustomed to oppressive summer weather or air-conditioning. Temperatures reached 102 degrees on Saturday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the second-hottest day ever recorded at the airport […]
Supported by By Giulia Heyward Bowser has a black and tan coat, weighs 80 pounds and loves being outdoors. And since Saturday morning, the German Sheperd mix has taken on an important role as the search and rescue efforts for victims in the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condos in Surfside, Fla., continue: […]
The death toll from the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Fla., has increased to nine, officials said Sunday morning, as they announced the recovery of four additional victims as well as human remains. “My deepest condolences to the families, the friends, the communities of those who’ve lost their lives, and […]
The death toll from the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Fla., has increased to nine, officials said Sunday morning, as they announced the recovery of four additional victims as well as human remains. “My deepest condolences to the families, the friends, the communities of those who’ve lost their lives, and […]
SURFSIDE (AFP/REUTERS) – The death toll after the collapse of a Florida apartment tower has risen to nine, the local mayor said on Sunday (June 27), more than three days after the building pancaked as residents were sleeping. “We were able to recover four additional bodies in the rubble… So I am confirming today that […]
Four of the five victims killed in the horrifying Miami building collapse have been named as their devastated loved ones paid tribute to them. A desperate operation to find people beneath the rubble is under way after the 12-storey Champlain Towers South building crashed to the ground as residents slept on Thursday. Florida investigators are […]
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – The search for more than 150 missing residents of a Florida building that collapsed two days ago grew increasingly desperate on Saturday evening (June 26), as a smoldering fire hampered rescue efforts and officials said they have not located any signs of life in the mountain of debris. A newly released […]