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It had been a month since the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh’s East End collapsed, and the memory was fresh in the mind of Westmoreland County Public Works Director Greg McCloskey as he gathered his ...

More than 100,000 gallons of wastewater spilled in southeast Houston. City tap water is safe, but nearby private well users should boil or distill water.

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There is no evidence that structural failures caused a March airplane crash in north Mississippi that left one man dead and his son injured, according to a report published Wednesday by the National ...

Preliminary investigations by the Nairobi City County Government indicate that the collapse of a residential building under ...

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Amid mounting public anger over repeated accidents and structural failures on national highway flyovers in Kerala, BJP state ...

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